Willard new vice-president of operations at SMX
SMX has appointed former Earthquake Commission Hamilton technology leader, Paul Willard, to vice- president of operations.
SMX has appointed former Earthquake Commission Hamilton technology leader, Paul Willard, to vice- president of operations.
Small and medium business owners’ prurient interests are being exploited by a surprisingly large population of spear phishers as a growing flurry of attacks compromises SMBs at an alarming rate, the regional CTO of security giant McAfee has warned.
David Braue | 30 May | Read more
Governments concerned about increasingly high-profile cyber-attacks must look past individual suppliers and work with vendors to consider risk in the context of an increasingly global security supply chain, the head of IT security with network supplier Huawei has advised.
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
Data is at its most valuable just after it's created, and vulnerability data in particular has a short half-life, says Packetloop's Michael Baker.
Richard Chirgwin | 24 May | Read more
In a security industry that hasn't changed much in 20 years, SafeNet's Andrew Younger says, it's strange that nothing much has changed in that time – except that we keep failing.
Richard Chirgwin | 23 May | Read more
Android-based smartphones are not only gaining notoriety as being susceptible to malware, but research presented by a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) forensic expert confirms that it’s possible to extract personal information from an Android phone long after that data has been deleted.
David Braue | 23 May | Read more
41 percent of small businesses have been the victim of cybercrime, costing each small businesses £3942 ($AU6064), says the UK Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in a survey released yesterday.
It's time for a debate about the kinds of actions that infosec professionals are allowed to take against attackers, according to CrowdStrike co-founder and CTO Dmitri Alperovitch.
Richard Chirgwin | 23 May | Read more
These days barely a day goes by where there isn’t some sort of network security breach or hack or malfunction of some sort. This year too we had the rise of groups such as Anonymous and Lulz that sought out attention for their activities. Here we take a look at the year in pictures of some of the key security problems that grabbed our attention.
Michael Cooney | 08 Dec | Read more
Welcome to the Security All-Stars! Here we have assembled our list of top players in information security who year after year demonstrate the specialized skills that make them worth listening to.
Ellen Messmer | 02 Nov | Read more
Hackers have released a denial of service (DoS) tool that purportedly allows one computer on a standard DSL connection to knock out a web server on a 30 Gigabit link.
DigiTask, the software developer credited with building the so-called Federal Trojan used by some of nation’s law enforcement agencies, faces an anti-competition law suit from a rival software developer.
As more business smartphone users demand remote access to corporate documents, organisations need to be wary of what app makers mean when they claim their apps are “business class”.
Attackers using a "massive" list of sign-in IDs and password pairs successfully gained access to 93,000 accounts on Sony’s PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Entertainment Network.
Despite widespread security concerns by smartphone users, 82 per cent do not have any security products installed, a survey by research group NPD has found.