Australian businesses may have decided the easiest way to deal with ransomware is to pay the ransom, but one expert has warned that this behaviour is only encouraging the extortionists' behaviour.
David Braue | 02 Aug | Read more
Australia may be China's sixth-largest trading partner, but an analysis of the country's allegedly state-sponsored hacking activities suggests that several other countries are seen as being more important targets for their cyber-espionage activities.
David Braue | 24 Jun | Read more
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more
Tongues were wagging all week about the hack of infidelity-facilitating site Ashley Madison, whose customer database and profiles were stolen and threatened with release by hackers who were angry with the company's ineffective account-deletion policies. The hack looked set to demolish the company's dreams of a London IPO.
David Braue | 27 Jul | Read more
Are your staff suitably trained to detect and ignore phishing spam? If not, you may want to revisit your policies: in the latest security embarrassment, banks in 30 countries have been systematically deprived of more than $US1 billion by cybercriminals due to what many are attributing to poor staff training around the handling of malware threats. Indeed, despite billions spent on security tools one study found that researchers were able to garner sensitive information in 88 percent of attempts just by using their eyes.
David Braue | 24 Feb | Read more