Your personal data is being shared, whether you like it or not
Australians OK with police sharing data to solve crimes – but other use cases are problematic
David Braue | 02 Aug | Read more
Australians OK with police sharing data to solve crimes – but other use cases are problematic
David Braue | 02 Aug | Read more
There are frequent media, TV and radio reports on data-hacks of companies which hold your personal data. These headlines highlight there is a real threat to us as both users and consumers. Hackers see value in data, as do companies who collect the data.
The UK government has set new rules for driverless cars, urging testers to ensure vehicles are built to record and store critical data while fending off remote hackers.
Australia may be the world's fourth-largest holder of network-security patents, but its Telecommunications companies and government agencies are the least trusted industries when it comes to protecting user data, a new survey has found. Case in point: the besieged US Office of Personnel Management – already hit with a class-action suit over the recent breach of data on US government employees – which took a key system offline after a security flaw was identified in a Web-based background-check system.
David Braue | 06 Jul | Read more
Public confidence in government security is so low that half of Australians believe their personal data will be compromised in the next year due to poor security by a government agency, according to a new survey that also found even more believe personal data held by telcos will be compromised.
David Braue | 03 Jul | Read more
Although there's obviously a significant interest in privacy from a legal and compliance perspective, Vodafone's head of privacy, Stephen Deadman, told the audience at the recent IAPP Summit that there's an increasing focus on economics.
Anthony Caruana | 20 Nov | Read more
Christmas may still be over a month away, but cyber-criminals were clearly enjoying the festive cheer early as they ramped up their onslaught of holiday-themed phishing emails. Human rights groups and other NGOs were also struggling with malware attacks – as was peak meteorological body the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
David Braue | 19 Nov | Read more
The majority of Australian shoppers are aware of the recent data breaches that struck major retailers around the world this year, but a new survey has found that few have changed their own behaviour around the protection of their retail-related private information.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Computers and mobile devices are already copping an onslaught of security breaches, but the situation could get a whole lot worse given the results of a pair of surveys suggesting the Internet of Things (IoT) concept – espoused by both Apple and Google in their burgeoning home and car connectivity initiatives – is both increasingly desirable and a source of growing concern about security and privacy.
David Braue | 03 Jul | Read more
Paraphrasing the song made famous in the 1960s by The Troggs and wonderfully updated by Bill Nighy in "Love Actually" Big Data is really all around us. We are making more and more data about ourselves available to a broader audience. But what if that data is stolen? Is it useful to anyone?
Anthony Caruana | 07 Mar | Read more
Infographic: If you're a CIO (or other IT leader) and you have a BYOD policy in place, you also have some trust issues to overcome: Your users aren't confident their personal data is remaining private.
Tom Kaneshige | 17 Jul | Read more