Audacious Android scam hacks a million Google accounts to boost app ratings
A new Android scam is hacking Google accounts just to help apps get discovered in Google Play’s crowded marketplace of two million apps.
A new Android scam is hacking Google accounts just to help apps get discovered in Google Play’s crowded marketplace of two million apps.
A newly found piece of malware targeting web servers running on Linux machines is scanning popular content management systems (CMS) for vulnerabilities to expand a botnet.
The Australian Screen Association (ASA) is keeping quiet over newly sworn Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to move responsibility for online piracy regulation back within the communications portfolio.
Andrew Colley | 22 Sep | Read more
A parliamentary committee has recommended that the federal government go ahead with controversial plans to introduce new laws requiring ISPs to block offshore websites that facilitate online film and television piracy.
Andrew Colley | 11 Jun | Read more
2013 has certainly been a watershed year for information security. But to understand how things might subsequently unfold in 2014, it's worth remembering that each and every revelation of 2013 will be processed and acted upon by humans. Humans with their unchanging human nature, and organisations created by us humans, with their similarly unchanging nature.
Stilgherrian | 06 Jan | Read more
The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is further entrenched as the key international legal instrument for tackling online crime following the third annual Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General in Sydney this week.
Stilgherrian | 17 Jul | Read more
An additional six local internet service providers (ISPs) have joined the Internet Industry Association's iCode, which brings the organisation one step closer in achieving 100 per cent compliance.
Hamish Barwick | 30 May | Read more