US Gov backs Google’s alarm: warns against HTTPS interception products
The US Government has warned organizations to take extra precautions when using TLS inspection software due to widespread problems with certificate validation.
The US Government has warned organizations to take extra precautions when using TLS inspection software due to widespread problems with certificate validation.
After yet another Flash zero-day, Microsoft has unveiled plans to phase out the buggy software for good.
Data breaches are inevitable and waiting for a breach to occur before designing an incident response plan is a recipe for failure. It’s a question of when the breach will occur and how you will respond, not if you will be breached. 100% prevention simply doesn’t exist, so having a plan to deal with a security breach is now more important than ever. You probably already have an incident response plan from a technical perspective. Phrases such as preparation, identification, containment, eradication and lessons learned.
Wayne Tufek | 15 Sep | Read more
Public-sector organisations suffered by far the most security incidents but had proportionally the fewest out of 20 surveyed industries in which data was confirmed lost, Verizon has found in a major data-breach report that also concluded security teams have less time than ever to act against new attacks.
David Braue | 15 Apr | Read more
Resource-stretched CSOs were forced to investigate an average of 1.5 security incidents every week last year and lost significant amounts of time playing catch-up with ever-nimbler cybercriminals, a survey of IT and security professionals has found.
David Braue | 15 Apr | Read more
Many senior executives still fail to recognise that information security is crucial to their company's survival and less than one in ten sees poor data security as the greatest risk to their business, according to an NTT Com Security survey released this week.
David Braue | 14 Nov | Read more
Australians will continue to be ripped off by international crime syndicates unless banks fast track the rollout of ATM chip technology, according to Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Brian Hay.
Hamish Barwick | 23 May | Read more
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has confirmed that a website related to the 2010 TV program Making Australia Happy was breached with 49,500 usernames and hashed versions of passwords leaked.
Hamish Barwick | 27 Feb | Read more
The University of NSW (UNSW) has confirmed that it was subjected to a number of intrusion attacks against its servers by unidentified hackers during December 2012 and January 2013.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jan | Read more