A day in the life of a cyber-criminal
I lay awake in bed looking over at the alarm clock on my side table it indicates 5:59 am, I am waiting for it to click over to 6 am and the alarm to sound. Click.
Craig Ford | 26 Feb | Read more
I lay awake in bed looking over at the alarm clock on my side table it indicates 5:59 am, I am waiting for it to click over to 6 am and the alarm to sound. Click.
Craig Ford | 26 Feb | Read more
Once lauded by prime minister Malcolm Turnbull as a paragon of secure communications, encrypted-messaging app Wickr could turn out to be one of the biggest opponents to his government’s new legislative push to force technology companies to divulge users’ encrypted communications.
David Braue | 19 Jul | Read more
People power took an interesting turn as a crowdfunding effort raised $US250,000 ($A326,000) to purchase the browsing histories of US politicians – who recently voted in legislation to allow ISPs to aggregate and resell the browsing histories of their customers. There were also demands by US lawmakers to know how many US residents the National Security Agency is currently surveilling.
David Braue | 10 Apr | Read more
Symantec's latest annual research suggested that the incidence of zero-days had doubled in 2015 – due in large part to the growing professionalism of cybercriminals developing new malware like the hybrid GozNym banking Trojan.
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
Siemens is working on a patch to address multiple industrial switches affected by the recently published DROWN vulnerability.
The first fully functioning Mac ransomware is actually derived from the first notable piece of ransomware for Linux servers, but the decryption tools available to Linux victims may not be delivered for Macs.
As many as 24,000 Australian-based PCs may have malware that exposes them to a new mass ransomware campaign which encrypts victims’ files until a $300 ransom is paid.