As Distribute.IT's server compromise and subsequent acquisition by Netregistry Group this week has shown, companies who are the subject of a hack attack can be taken out of business permanently. The scale of the Distribute.IT disaster raises issues both for customers who use hosting providers to store sensitive business information and for the providers themselves.
Hamish Barwick | 24 Jun | Read more
New South Wales-based hosting provider Netregistry Group has acquired Distribute.IT's customers and assets for an undisclosed sum.
Hamish Barwick | 23 Jun | Read more
The Gillard Government's decision to set up legislative framework to allow Australia to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty was a good step forward but privacy and civil liberty concerns need to be taken into account, according to a security expert
Hamish Barwick | 23 Jun | Read more
Ethical hacker company, Pure Hacking, has developed a strategic security practice designed to seek out vulnerabilities in companies before black hat hackers find them.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
The worst fears of security professionals have been realised with a hacker collective designed to target banks confirmed by LulzSec and Anonymous.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
It's almost the end of financial year, and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned companies and consumers to beware of phishing emails and telemarketing calls.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
Information security company Bridge Point Communications will take over the assets and staff of data centre specialist, Server Central, on 30 June once due diligence is completed.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
Domain register and Web hosting provider, Distribute.IT, has been unable to recover any of the data hosted on its four servers following an [[artnid:390689|infrastructure hack|new]] last week by a group called Evil and is now transferring customers to other hosting providers.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
Countries will continue to press the envelope to determine how much damage can be inflicted before the United States declares a cyberwar according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) associate.
Hamish Barwick | 20 Jun | Read more
A University of New South Wales (UNSW) email address was included in hacker group LulzSec's harvested email list, which also included addresses from a number of other educational institutions and local government bodies, but the university has reported its network is uncompromised.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jun | Read more
Rival security vendors are reaching out to RSA's local customers with offers of free tokens.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jun | Read more
Former CA Technologies Australia managing director, Brenton Smith, has jumped ship to Symantec's Cloud division.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jun | Read more
Fresh from attacking the CIA's CIO.gov website with a denial of service (DOS) attack, hacker group LulzSec has struck again with a leaked list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, including some harvested from Australian organisations.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jun | Read more
The Cold War between the USA and Russia may have ended two decades ago but a new frosty conflict between America and China together with North Korea has emerged on the digital frontier, according to McAfee’s US chief security officer.
Hamish Barwick | 15 Jun | Read more