Kmart Australia calls in police over security breach
Kmart Australia has contacted the Australian Federal Police over a security breach that exposed the private details of some customers.
Hamish Barwick | 01 Oct | Read more
Kmart Australia has contacted the Australian Federal Police over a security breach that exposed the private details of some customers.
Hamish Barwick | 01 Oct | Read more
iiNet subsidiary Westnet has confirmed that it is investigating an alleged database hack.
Hamish Barwick | 09 Jun | Read more
A DeLorean car straight out of Back to the Future made an appearance at the AusCERT gala dinner as the organisation celebrated its 14th annual conference and awards night on the Gold Coast.
Hamish Barwick | 05 Jun | Read more
Justin Clacherty of policy advocate group Futurewise has lambasted the <i>Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015</i> as a form of mass surveillance.
Hamish Barwick | 04 Jun | Read more
The G20 Summit was held in Brisbane during November 2014 , putting the spotlight on the city but also making organisations there a potential target for politically motivated hackers.
Hamish Barwick | 04 Jun | Read more
Simple mistakes by cyber criminals — such as reusing an email address — has helped US journalist Brian Krebs with his research.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Jun | Read more
Activists in countries such as Syria, Vietnam and Ethiopia are under online attack online from their governments for expressing dissident opinions according to research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Hamish Barwick | 03 Jun | Read more
Customers of 200 financial institutions in Australia were targeted by botnets between January 2014 and March 2015 according to a new report by Dell SecureWorks.
Hamish Barwick | 23 Apr | Read more
Intel Security senior vice president of worldwide channel operations Gavin Struthers has been promoted to Asia Pacific president.
Hamish Barwick | 25 Mar | Read more
Consumers in Australia and around the world have fallen for a social engineering link promising a free download of Transformers 4, 22 Jump Street or Maleficent.
Hamish Barwick | 30 Jul | Read more
Unfamiliarity with some Microsoft Word functions and limited awareness of IT security risks may have led to the accidental publishing of almost 10,000 asylum seekers details on the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) website in February 2014, says a new KPMG report.
Hamish Barwick | 13 Jun | Read more
Public cloud may be able deliver greater agility to enterprises, but it can also complicate the already fraught information security landscape.
Hamish Barwick | 12 Jun | Read more
In an ideal world, people would not need a password to log in to Facebook as they would use a hardware token instead, according to Facebook United States engineer Gregg Stefancik.
Hamish Barwick | 04 Jun | Read more
CSC opened the doors to its new security operations centre (SOC) in Macquarie Park, Sydney this week. The SOC is one of five that the vendor operates globally as part of a 24/7 strategy to identify cyber threats in real time.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Jun | Read more
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Australia is urging companies that haven’t migrated off the Windows XP operating system (OS) to start doing so because they are at increased risk of network vulnerability.
Hamish Barwick | 30 May | Read more