Week in review: How is your Meltdown/Spectre action plan progressing?
When it comes to security, small businesses need all the help they can get – and the government made an effort to give them a bit.
David Braue | 15 Jan | Read more
When it comes to security, small businesses need all the help they can get – and the government made an effort to give them a bit.
David Braue | 15 Jan | Read more
City and state authorities may be embracing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to power ‘smart city’ initiatives around the world, but one expert has warned that the technology’s rapidly-broadening scope means IoT security must be addressed at an ecosystem level as a matter of public safety.
David Braue | 09 Jan | Read more
A recent story in CSO highlights the disparity between “information security” (a.k.a. IT security) and “cybersecurity” — namely total spending and market growth.
Steve Morgan | 18 Dec | Read more
Anytime a new flashy household device is released on the market, internet connectivity is promoted as one of its main features.
Robert Le Busque | 13 Dec | Read more
Faced with a growing volume of ransomware, fraud and malware attacks, the introduction of a free alternative-DNS service called Quad9 is being hailed as a way of offering IT administrators an easy way to raise baseline protections against online attacks.
David Braue | 20 Nov | Read more
A lack of budget for Internet of Things (IoT) security efforts is making Australian and New Zealand IT executives the world’s most anxious when it comes to IoT security, new figures have shown as a raft of initiatives seek to lock down exposure to IoT devices and industrial IoT sensors, meters and other mission-critical controls.
David Braue | 17 Nov | Read more
Any device with Bluetooth could be vulnerable to the nasty BlueBorne bugs.
The pushing of billions of insecure Internet of things (IoT) devices into the market has already “poisoned” the Internet with a level of vulnerabilities that will be hard to claw back from, one security specialist has said in warning that “the damage is already done”.
David Braue | 01 Nov | Read more
Appliance giant responded quickly, but IoT is growing and most vendors don’t plan ahead nearly as well
David Braue | 30 Oct | Read more
Your neighbors and anyone nearby now has a way to steal your passwords and snoop on what you're looking at on the web.
Dr Charlie Miller has been tagged as one of the world's best hackers after compromising a Jeep Cherokee from 10km with his colleague Chris Valasek.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Oct | Read more
Having made the switch from government to the private sector, ANZ's CISO Lynwen Connick was one of the architects of the national cybersecurity strategy and is now a user of that strategy.
Anthony Caruana | 12 Oct | Read more
Small and medium businesses are struggling to keep up with their need for security specialists.
David Braue | 09 Oct | Read more
Google researchers found seven severe security flaws in the open-source DNS software package Dnsmasq. The flaws put a huge number of devices at risk of being hacked.
Think your software developers can build secure code just because you want them to? Not necessarily
David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more