US charges two Chinese nationals for massive data thefts from NASA and others
US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
Long-awaited quarterly figures on the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), demonstrated that Australia’s data-breach problem continues unabated, with hundreds of breaches reported over the period and massive volumes of customer records compromised.
David Braue | 06 Nov | Read more
Google didn’t disclose breach because it feared its Cambridge Analytica moment.
AWS's S3 Console now contains "public" labels that aim to make it harder to miss that an S3 bucket has been made publicly available.
Infected CCleaner planted backdoor in computers at Microsoft, Intel, Samsung and other tech giants.
The accidental mass leakage of Swedish drivers’ personal details caused red faces amongst that country’s government, providing fodder for hackers that have become highly effective in dreaming up new ways to generate profit.
David Braue | 31 Jul | Read more
Businesses that continue to prioritise perimeter security over data protection will face a day of reckoning when a perfect storm of new regulations comes into effect next year, security experts have warned as new research finds that more than half of Australian businesses admit they’ll fail to meet deadlines for compliance.
David Braue | 12 Jul | Read more
Two out of three merchants fail to make any changes to their fraud prevention strategies even after they suffer a data breach, according to a merchant survey that also found those merchants are more concerned with reputational damage from a breach than the actual loss of data.
David Braue | 28 Jun | Read more
Australian IT experts are struggling to secure increasingly complex networks and increasing compliance pressure isn’t providing enough incentive for change, a security expert has warned as looming breach-notification legislation threatens to publicly expose poor risk management practices and their consequences.
David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
Hackers access HipChat Cloud chats and account information.
Australian businesses are struggling to sell roles in ICT – and, even more problematic, in cybersecurity – to women, and one female cybersecurity wonk believes the problem is that too many young women aren’t being encouraged to ask questions more proactively.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.
Grant Gross | 16 Feb | Read more
There's been a significant shift in cyber-attacks over recent years. Although we often call this change an increase in sophistication, it's really a response to how security strategies have been developed and executed.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Oct | Read more
If you have an account with Yahoo and haven’t changed your password since 2014, now is the time to do it. The company confirmed today a copy of sensitive user account information was stolen from its network in “late 2014” and suspects the attacker was a state-sponsored actor.
Enterprise access management firm OneLogin has suffered an embarrassing breach tied to a single employee’s credentials being compromised.