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Malware numbers just keep growing

For all its efforts to protect citizen privacy, the revelation that the passwords of many Australian Tax Office (ATO) business customers had been stored in plain text highlighted the persistent ability of human error – in this case, at an ATO subcontractor with data stored external to the organisation – to compromise security measures.

David Braue | 20 Jun | Read more
Malware authors’ hard-fought “professionalism” impressive, frightening: researcher

Malware authors have become so good at seeding exploits en masse that their monitoring, customer service, marketing and Australian localisation strategies have come to resemble professional business operations, a senior Trend Micro security researcher has observed.

David Braue | 10 May | Read more

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