Akamai has blamed greater penetration of the national broadband network (NBN) and increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for a surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that saw DDoS volumes double year-on-year and pushed Australia into the top 10 DDoS source countries for the first time ever.
David Braue | 19 Aug | Read more
Three years before Australia banned Huawei from bidding for the National Broadband Network (NBN), the US National Security Agency (NSA) burrowed into the company’s networks to steal email and product source code, according to reports published on Saturday.
Australia's attorneys-general are looking at the possibility of a central portal for reporting online offences. But vast slabs of the [[xref:http://www.canberra.edu.au/cis/ecrimesymposium/|third annual eCrime Symposium]] currently being held in Canberra seem eerily familiar.
Stilgherrian | 09 Nov | Read more
Once the National Broadband Network (NBN) rolls out, the ability to take down companies -- who have yet to invest in network security and publish network services to the internet -- will become much easier, according to a security expert.
Hamish Barwick | 01 Jun | Read more