Companies relying on Cloud services from Amazon were in April left hanging when the Cloud provider’s EC2 went down. For Gartner research director, Rob McMillan, this outage highlighted the need for airtight service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure their provider’s — and therefore their data’s — reliability.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Aug | Read more
Data governance, risk and compliance (GRC) should be viewed by IT managers as a business asset rather than something for the law firm to deal with, according to an IDC US senior analyst.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Aug | Read more
Telstra has asked for a feasibility study period of up to 90 days once the Cybercrime Amendments Bill 2011 (PDF) has been passed to give time for carriers to design, build and integrate new systems and ensure data that may be requested by law enforcement agencies is secure.
Hamish Barwick | 02 Aug | Read more
The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has warned that the [[xref:http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscc/cybercrime_bill/bill.pdf| <i>Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011</i>|new]] has the potential to invade the rights of individuals and grants additional access to information by a range of agencies.
Hamish Barwick | 01 Aug | Read more
NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, has responded to media reports this week that the telco's network was compromised.
Hamish Barwick | 28 Jul | Read more
The minister of justice, Brendan O’Connor, warned enterprises to remain vigilant on cybercrime, despite following the charge of a 25-year-old unemployed truck driver for alleged hacks on organisations, including the University of Sydney, Distribute.IT and NBN Co retail customer, Platform Networks.
Hamish Barwick | 28 Jul | Read more
The voicemail hacking scandal engulfing journalists of now-defunct UK newspaper News of the World serves as a timely reminder for Australian businesses and consumers to update their phone security.
Hamish Barwick | 19 Jul | Read more
Underdale, South Australia-based paternity and drug-testing laboratory, Medvet Laboratories, has launched an investigation into an online software error which caused the details of 800 patient's delivery addresses and product details entered into its Web store to be visible online.
Hamish Barwick | 19 Jul | Read more
Some of the big four banks are divided over claims by a National Australia Bank (NAB) fraud specialist that more needs to be done to educate customers about the risks of banking using mobile devices
Hamish Barwick | 08 Jul | Read more
Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed another company scalp, this time an Apple server in the US which it claimed to have compromised this week.
Hamish Barwick | 05 Jul | Read more
An investigation by the Acting NSW Privacy Commissioner, John McAteer, into the University of Sydney's security breach in January has found that the institution failed to meet its obligations to students under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection (PPIP) Act of 1998 due to a series of security blunders.
Hamish Barwick | 29 Jun | Read more
Sydney's Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council's website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed.
Hamish Barwick | 29 Jun | Read more
Black hat hacker group LulzSec may have announced that it is ceasing operations after 50 days of attacks on companies such as Sony but the group still retains vast amounts of stolen data.
Hamish Barwick | 28 Jun | Read more
The annual US hacker conference, DefCon, has been expanded this year to include the next generation of white hat hackers.
Hamish Barwick | 27 Jun | Read more
Singapore last week joined Zurich, Switzerland and San Jose, USA, as host to a Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) facility.
Hamish Barwick | 26 Jun | Read more