The week in security: Balancing privacy and innovation often produces unexpected consequences
Apple was countering Bloomberg reports that its systems had been hacked by a Chinese state-sponsored attack.
David Braue | 08 Oct | Read more
Apple was countering Bloomberg reports that its systems had been hacked by a Chinese state-sponsored attack.
David Braue | 08 Oct | Read more
Did you change your passwords in recognition of World Password Day? Probably not.
David Braue | 07 May | Read more
Even as a major breach of Australians’ private financial and personal information reinforced the need for better visibility of network activity, the discovery in the street of a USB stick containing 2.5GB of sensitive airport security and anti-terrorism measures had UK authorities concerned.
David Braue | 07 Nov | Read more
A report on the utilisation of telecommunications-interception legislation revealed that Australian authorities accessed over 237,000 records last year using new metadata-retention powers.
David Braue | 21 Aug | Read more
The accidental mass leakage of Swedish drivers’ personal details caused red faces amongst that country’s government, providing fodder for hackers that have become highly effective in dreaming up new ways to generate profit.
David Braue | 31 Jul | Read more
IDG Security Day united security experts around the world in a common effort to share experiences and best practices around information-security strategies. This led to a surfeit of security goodness at the Sydney event and elsewhere.
David Braue | 26 Jun | Read more
CISOs are still few and far between in Australia, where new figures suggest many companies are channelling money into security consultants rather than hiring information-security executives.
David Braue | 13 Dec | Read more
CISOs beware: a specially-built USB device can steal credentials even from locked Windows PCs after being inserted for just seconds.
David Braue | 13 Sep | Read more
There was no bigger cybersecurity story over the past week than the disaster that was Census 2016
David Braue | 15 Aug | Read more
Australian businesses may have decided the easiest way to deal with ransomware is to pay the ransom, but one expert has warned that this behaviour is only encouraging the extortionists' behaviour.
David Braue | 02 Aug | Read more
The benefits of communication are often lauded within corporate environments but making it happen is often much harder.
David Braue | 16 May | Read more
Fully 27 percent of all the malware variants ever created, were created in 2015 alone, new research suggests. That creates new pressure on CSOs to keep up – although many will, a new report says, be busy weighing factors such as work flexibility and pay rates in considering whether they should even stick around to fight that fight.
David Braue | 01 Feb | Read more
The first week of National Cyber Security Awareness couldn't have been more timely, with two major-retailer hacks and a host of revelations confirming that cybersecurity issues are only continuing to get worse.
David Braue | 12 Oct | Read more
If you're worried about security vulnerabilities, you're not alone five critical areas of security have researchers worried. One of them is the security of the Android mobile operating system, which was in the spotlight as IBM located another Android bug and a zero-day flaw in Google's Admin app allowed malicious apps to read its files. Google's first attempt to patch the high-profile StageFright bug was unsuccessful and the company said it would be November before a complete fix to the bug would be delivered.
David Braue | 17 Aug | Read more
Australia may be the world's fourth-largest holder of network-security patents, but its Telecommunications companies and government agencies are the least trusted industries when it comes to protecting user data, a new survey has found. Case in point: the besieged US Office of Personnel Management – already hit with a class-action suit over the recent breach of data on US government employees – which took a key system offline after a security flaw was identified in a Web-based background-check system.
David Braue | 06 Jul | Read more