Security Leader: Nick Lennon
"With the volume of threats increasing so substantially and approaches changing so rapidly, perhaps the biggest risk is that the event that will happen in 12 months’ time isn’t even on our radar yet."
"With the volume of threats increasing so substantially and approaches changing so rapidly, perhaps the biggest risk is that the event that will happen in 12 months’ time isn’t even on our radar yet."
Better software security has made vulnerabilities harder to exploit – but that, a Cisco threat-intelligence expert warns, hasn’t stopped cybercriminals from chalking up one victory after another as they refine malware and redouble their efforts to trick humans into installing it.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
And, because of the magic of time differences and the international date line Australia was the first IDG Security Day event running. As it's the sumer solstice in the Northern hemisphere, it's also the longest day so it makes sense to fill it with as much infosec goodness as we possibly can.
Abigail Swabey | 23 Jun | Read more
IBM says that more than four billion records were leaked online in 2016, including a mix of credit card data, passwords and personal health information. The number of different bits about people’s private lives leaked online last year were up from 600 million exposed records in 2015, and one billion exposed records in 2014.
As Joomla websites were being attacked en masse using recently patched exploits and owners of Belkin WeMo devices were advised to update before their devices were exploited in global zombie botnets, some were wondering whether developers will ever get better at writing secure code.
David Braue | 08 Nov | Read more
Empowered by high-level endorsement of their collaboration, Australia's businesses and government bodies need to proactively leverage their growing body of threat intelligence into new defensive and offensive cybercrime strategies, one regional CISO has advised in the wake of his growing engagement with the country's cybersecurity community.
David Braue | 23 Aug | Read more
Facebook has said little about its threat intelligence exchange platform since launching it six months ago, but today it revealed that 90 firms from seven industries have joined the effort.
Risk management and penetration testing firm Threat Intelligence says CEO Ty Miller has been appointed to the governing Board of the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers - CREST (Aust) Ltd. This continues on from his role as a CREST Assessor to which he was appointed in 2012.
Anthony Caruana | 23 Jun | Read more
Companies are increasingly turning to threat intelligence to help shape their response to security attacks, which some have argued must become increasingly defensive as the nature of the threat changes over time.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
President Obama called for strengthening cybersecurity and privacy protection in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Most security experts agree with the President's overall goals, but warn of potential unintended consequences that could do more harm than good.
Tony Bradley | 23 Jan | Read more
There is a scene in HBO's adaption of Game of Thrones where a character counsels the king to dismiss the rising power of one of his rivals because "curiosities on the far side of the world" are no threat. A season later, that rival has three dragons and an army under her control.
Jason Clark | 25 Jun | Read more
The scale and impact of cyber attacks are dramatically increasing each year, according to Threat Intelligence.
Patrick Budmar | 04 Mar | Read more