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  • The week in security: 8 in 10 health apps insecure; ISIS sidesteps backdoor debate

    The new year is always a good time for new beginnings – and this includes reviewing your security policies to ensure they're up to date with your changing business. CSO offers a range of policy templates and tools to give you best-practice guidance to get you started, while newly-minted security interest Forcepoint was working to equip CSOs with a better metric to track organisational security posture when dealing with the board.

    David Braue | 18 Jan | Read more

  • The week in security: Now law in Australia, data retention challenged overseas

    It was a banner week for the handling of personal information, with Australia's controversial metadata retention laws becoming law after Labor capitulated on its previous opposition to the legislation. Similar issues were at the fore in the US – where numerous technology companies pressed the US government to stop its collection of metadata – and Europe, where Dutch telcos were ordered to delete data retained under previous data-retention laws after they were found to be unconstitutional. And the EU's high court wasset to revisit the ability of US companies to handle the zealously-protected personal information of EU citizens.

    David Braue | 30 Mar | Read more

  • What the private sector could contribute to the data retention debate

    It is impossible to discuss the recent debate around data retention in Australia without eventually coming back to information security -- encryption, the secure storage of digital records, and meta data are just some of the topics that are traditionally security issues. However, they are the same issues that have been addressed time and time again in the private sector.

    Michael Lee | 18 Mar | Read more

  • PM spruiks data retention as report blames Snowden for poor data sharing

    “Strained” relationships between intelligence and business had impeded information sharing and compromised national security as a result, a report into Australia's counter terrorism capabilities has warned as Australian prime minister Tony Abbott stepped up his rhetoric about the need for data-retention legislation in a speech on national security this week.

    David Braue | 24 Feb | Read more

  • The week in security: Data retention looms, Superfish gutted

    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

  • The week in security: Security concerns as Australia moves towards data retention

    Consumers are more concerned about credit-card security than they are about their own health, a new survey has concluded. Take it as an indictment of our consumer culture or an indication that our overall health is good, but with California alone reporting a six-fold increase in data breaches the threat is getting bigger all the time. With cybercriminals having developed a tool to optimise their use of stolen credit cards, things are likely to get worse before they get better.

    David Braue | 03 Nov | Read more

  • The week in security: Apple security scrutinised as mobile, IoT threats loom

    The role of government in cybersecurity defences continues to morph, but there were interesting revelations that GCHQ employs 120 dyslexic and dyspraxic analysts to help in its fight against terrorism, while British PM David Cameron appointed a special envoy in charge of intelligence and law-enforcement data sharing. Interestingly, however, even as scrutiny of data sharing increases, Yahoo! reported that government requests for data had dropped overall, while one Australian cybersecurity expert said businesses and governments were increasingly seeking a collaborative approach to bolster overall cybersecurity profiles.

    David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more