Google's reCaptcha v3 does away with puzzles that humans need to solve
Google's latest version of reCAPTCHA should make the challenge-response bot test completely invisible to human site visitors.
Google's latest version of reCAPTCHA should make the challenge-response bot test completely invisible to human site visitors.
Even weak attackers can pull off a password reset man-in-the-middle attack by getting you to register at a new website.
Overseas success has long been the often-elusive goal of many Australian companies, but one Brisbane startup is seeing doors opening after its participation in an Austrade trade mission to Silicon Valley last month.
David Braue | 13 Mar | Read more
As part of this year’s Spark Festival in Sydney, local success story Atlassian hosted the first CyberSecurity pitch fest
Anthony Caruana | 28 Oct | Read more
Australian online-classified site Gumtree was hacked and used to spread malware via online display ads, while a large US healthcare provider was shut down after a malware infection and only partially recovered days later.
David Braue | 04 Apr | Read more
Recognising that there isn't much latitude for wasting time managing an expansive, mission-critical network that typically supports more than 30,000 concurrent users, Catholic Education South Australia (CESA) has used a range of policy controls to clamp down on external attempts to access its expanding range of networked services.
David Braue | 31 Mar | Read more
Persistent shortcomings in corporate information-security policy continue to compromise security efforts by exposing organisations to human error and the ever more-clever depredations of ransomware and other malware authors, peak security group CompTIA has warned on the back of new research showing that just 54 percent of surveyed companies offer their employees any form of cybersecurity training.
David Braue | 01 Apr | Read more
A hack of Sony Pictures' systems led to the leaking of pre-release versions of numerous movies as well as a massive archive of sales contracts and other data. The hack led to a high-scrutiny investigation of technical evidence – including suggestions North Korea was behind the attack due to the controversial content of one of the films.
David Braue | 08 Dec | Read more
The un-doing of the dark-web drugs bazaar, Silk Road, was a misconfigured security feature on the site that was meant to prevent bots from signing up, according to the FBI.
Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg where opening phony accounts could be turned into cash.
Tim Greene | 25 May | Read more
Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phoney accounts with the company's services.
Robert McMillan | 04 Aug | Read more
Spammers have cracked Microsoft's latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a central server, a security company has reported.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Feb | Read more