Mirai may have knocked nearly a million German broadband users offline
A Mirai-like botnet was behind the broadband outage affecting nearly one million customers of German carrier Deutsche Telekom, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.
A Mirai-like botnet was behind the broadband outage affecting nearly one million customers of German carrier Deutsche Telekom, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.
New application vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats may be emerging every day, but nearly half of APAC businesses are only scanning their environment for new threats once a year, according to a survey of CSOs that also found some 80 percent of organisations had been attacked at least once in the past 12 months.
David Braue | 16 May | Read more
Crypto-ransomware hackers who have plagued PCs for the past two years have found a new tack — high value business websites.
Microsoft announced its upcoming Australian version of its Azure cloud platform had achieved government security certification. On similar lines, Microsoft also joined other technology providers in promising to protect student privacy, and developed a new way to securely isolate data and applications from the cloud infrastructure they're running on.
David Braue | 14 Oct | Read more
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