Bugs in heart implants can be used to deliver shocks, experts say
Security experts have backed claims that flaws in heart implants made by St Jude Medical can be used to deliver electric shocks.
Security experts have backed claims that flaws in heart implants made by St Jude Medical can be used to deliver electric shocks.
British ISP TalkTalk has received a record £400,000 (USD $510,000) fine for a breach that exposed personal data of over 155,000 customers.
Car manufacturers will be expected to present detailed plans for avoiding hacking of their self-driving cars under new US Department of Transportation guidelines designed to preserve safety in a sector whose massive momentum is already making it a target for hackers both curious and malicious.
David Braue | 22 Sep | Read more
Data breaches are inevitable and waiting for a breach to occur before designing an incident response plan is a recipe for failure. It’s a question of when the breach will occur and how you will respond, not if you will be breached. 100% prevention simply doesn’t exist, so having a plan to deal with a security breach is now more important than ever. You probably already have an incident response plan from a technical perspective. Phrases such as preparation, identification, containment, eradication and lessons learned.
Wayne Tufek | 15 Sep | Read more
Cybercriminals have become as professional as marketing experts and as well-resourced as nation-state hackers, a Symantec technical expert has warned as new figures suggest Australia remains the APAC region's top ransomware target.
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
Google has released its April update for Nexus devices, which includes fixes for 40 bugs altogether, including 15 critical issues and a rooting flaw it addressed in March.
Google doubled the bounty it will pay for a successful exploit of its Chromebook laptop to US$100,000, sweetening the pot in hopes of drawing more attention from security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk | 15 Mar | Read more
An emergency patch for Flash Player is available today that fixes a flaw in the version that Adobe released three weeks ago.
A hack of the popular crowdfunding platform may be worse than Patreon itself has let on.
Jared Newman | 02 Oct | Read more
Human expertise is becoming crucial to pick up the security chain where conventional antivirus solutions are dropping it, some argue as the overall online security threat increases and DDoS attacks get more sophisticated, by accounts. Yet even as Australia becomes the world's second most-attacked Web target and many companies perceive the value of security analytics in fighting DDoS and other attacks, the technology was the next to least actually-deployed security protection in one recent survey.
David Braue | 26 May | Read more
Co-founder of the now-defunct Distribute.IT, Carl Woerndle, gives a warts and all account of the cyber attack so damaging it destroyed his once prospering technology business.
Byron Connolly and Bonnie Gardiner | 03 Mar | Read more
A security researcher is both testing and protesting U.S. cybercrime laws by publishing 10 million real usernames and passwords for research purposes.
Jared Newman | 11 Feb | Read more
Online criminal activity has become so pervasive that it is “not a solvable problem” and, rather than focusing exclusively on defensive techniques, organisations are better advised to ensure they have a way to gather and quickly analyse data, the head of a fast-growing local software success story has warned.
David Braue | 05 Feb | Read more
Australia's information-security posture is |weak by world standards, according to one of many recent vendor studies that found overseas CSOs rated the maturity of their security processes rather higher than those here. It can't help that more than one quarter of security budget is being wasted on software that sits unused, figuratively, on the shelf rather than being actively utilised.
David Braue | 02 Feb | Read more
In what has been one of the most momentous years in infosec ever - the Sony hack has topped everything. Although the Sony hack did not impact as many people directly as Apple's "goto: fail" bug or the Heartbleed exploit, the commercial and political ramifications of the attack on Sony have garnered more attention than any other attack - surpassing even the target attack in November 2013.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Dec | Read more