Cisco coughs up $8.6M to settle lawsuit over selling kit with known flaws
Cisco has paid $8.6 million to settle charges it violated the US FCA for selling equipment to federal agencies it knew had “dangerous” security flaws.
Cisco has paid $8.6 million to settle charges it violated the US FCA for selling equipment to federal agencies it knew had “dangerous” security flaws.
Accumulation of a growing body of data and analytics insights is rapidly progressing cybersecurity analysis from being a monitoring tool into something that can proactively predict future events, the head of an Australian analytics specialist has said on the eve of the company’s move into the massive US government market.
David Braue | 08 May | Read more
US president Barack Obama has issued a warning to world leaders that when it comes to cybersecurity, the US is unparalleled.
By now all of you must have heard about the debacle that is the latest census. The intent of going electronic was right, but the execution left a lot to be desired!
Ashwin Pal | 16 Aug | Read more
According to an IBM insider, who was involved in the e-Census project that spectacularly failed on 9 August 2016, the true tale of why things went horribly wrong is a combination of factors compounded by bureaucratic thinking that actually stopped the ABS from using a more secure solution.
Anthony Caruana | 15 Aug | Read more
Any service provider to the US government that relies on SMS for two-factor authentication may need to swap the method for something with fewer design weaknesses.
A new US government report has called on lawmakers to learn more about encryption before attempting to regulate it.
Security news was dominated by the stoush between Apple and the US government, after a court ordered the company to find a way to access the locked iPhone of terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple refused in a very public open letter from Tim Cook, launching a case that could end up in the US Supreme Court.
David Braue | 22 Feb | Read more
The closure of a shady telemarketing company came just days after an IDG report revealed new insights into online antivirus-related pressure sells that are netting big bucks from those “Your PC may be infected” advertisements.
David Braue | 15 Jun | Read more
Government requests for Facebook continued to grow in the second half of 2014, the company's latest transparency report has confirmed. And, speaking of transparency, some vendors were worried by findings by Verizon that 80 percent of PCI DSS-compliant firms fail to stay compliant in the year after their certifications – leading some to push the PCI Council to accept software-based encryption]] as well as the current hardware-based encryption it requires.
David Braue | 23 Mar | Read more
Google has quietly stopped requiring that Android OEMs enable full-disk encryption by default in new Android 5.0 Lollipop devices, backtracking on its widely publicised plan to make life harder for snoops and police.
Facebook has launched ThreatExchange, which is open to any company and lets them share emerging threat information with their peers and is kicking off with Silicon Valley heavyweights.
New statistics suggested that Australian and New Zealand businesses suffer 29 data-loss events every day, while Google reported a 19 percent jump in US government data requests in the first half of this year over the previous half.
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
The curtain has fallen on the 50 day performance by hacker group LulzSec. Its campaign of mayhem and destruction, peppered with witty commentary captivated the world. In an alternate universe where Lulzcats reign and anti-security is the norm, it might have even earned a spot on its first target, The X-Factor. But on this earth its members may still be captured by its later targets: the CIA, US law enforcement and the FBI.