A capacity crowd of security executives attended CSO Australia’s SecureIT conference this month, with a compelling lineup that was kicked off by former LulzSec hacker Mustafa al-Bassam, whose exploits hacking top-tier businesses landed him in handcuffs at just 16 years old.
David Braue | 18 Jun | Read more
Just as many CSOs are focused on automating their organisational threat response, many others are focused on improving their visibility of network traffic – which, with encryption increasingly used to protect legitimate application traffic and obfuscate malware command-and-control (C&C) traffic, has become ever more difficult to do.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
With the threat climate continuing unabated, the impact of increasing volumes of attacks – and increasing pressure to stop them – has taken its own toll on CSOs who, iOOF Holdings head of cybersecurity and technology risk Ashutosh Kapsé noted, suffer from high burnout rates, job-related physical and mental health issues, loss of a sense of purpose, and constant fears for their jobs.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
Big businesses may spend more on security but their complexity makes them easier to hack, a former teenage hacker told an audience of big-business CSOs in opening up a day of insights at CSO Australia’s SecurIT conference this month.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
A CEO’s poor password hygiene enabled an escalating series of attacks that capped off a 50-day hacking spree that sent several members of hacking group LulzSec to jail and caused significant financial and reputational damage for companies like Fox News, US broadcasters Fox News and PBS, and Sony’s PlayStation Network.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more