The AusCERT 2013 security conference, which coincides with the government-sponsored <a href="http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/awareness_week">National Cyber Security Awareness Week (NCSAW)</a>, dominated the news during the week, and the CSO Australia team was there in full force to hear the latest from industry experts from across Australia around the world.
David Braue | 27 May | Read more
Australia’s Internet space shows the same distribution of vulnerable IP ports as the rest of the world and a dangerous preponderance of insecure Universal Plug ‘n’ Play (UPnP) devices, Metasploit Project founder HD Moore has warned while recounting the surprising results of his efforts to catalogue the results of communicating with every IP address on the Internet.
David Braue | 22 May | Read more
Almost two years after ‘IPv6 day’ in 2011, security professionals cannot confidently manage security threats posed by the replacement to IPv4, according to the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre.