In a recent episode of a certain podcast, we discussed the idea that the new mobile platforms represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform online security.
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24 Dec |
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It was going to be the year of cyberwar, we were told on the eve of 2012. We've seen plenty of scary news stories since about dangerous nation-state actors, usually without naming them. But I reckon we've now got the focus wrong.
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21 Dec |
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A new cybercrime survey by Australian outfit Essential Research has begun to unravel the threads that vendors tend to tangle. Their initial results suggest things might not be nearly as bad as we're told.
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02 Nov |
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The newly-updated Top 35 Mitigation Strategies from Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has received high praise from Alan Paller, founder and director of research of the SANS Institute. It could even make Australia the world's infosec leader.
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26 Oct |
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Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has joined the increasing number of organisations promoting application whitelisting as a key security strategy with an updated version of its award-winning "Top 35 Mitigation Strategies".
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24 Oct |
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The wave of ransomware masquerading as law enforcement operations has reached Australia. Instances of an Australian Federal Police (AFP) branded scam have been reported attacking PCs this week. A more serious scam has been attacking business servers.
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28 Sep |
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Symantec's so-what launch of a minor facilities upgrade in Sydney illustrates a key problem facing all information security vendors. How do you convince the pointy-haired bosses to go for your company's tender when it's almost impossible to reveal any meaningful comparisons with the competitors?
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20 Sep |
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VMware pitches virtualisation as the answer to BYOD security. Running a work-related virtual smartphone inside an employee's physical host phone, as the company has previously deployed onto Android, brings security benefits.
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31 Aug |
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For maybe 72 hours this week slabs of the online world, and gamers in particular, were under the impression that Sony's PlayStation Network had been hacked again, with the theft of a 50GB database leaving 10 million user accounts exposed.
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20 Aug |
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Technology won't save you from nation-state cyber-espionage, your corporate culture will.
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31 Jul |
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Australian telco AAPT has confirmed that it was hacked, presumably by persons working under the Anonymous brand, and CEO David Yuile's press statement is a prime example of the kind of PR-driven weasel word laden cop-out that simply has to stop.
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26 Jul |
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Dropbox's security failure, which left all 25 million customers' files exposed for four hours this week, is exactly the sort of cloud security scare story that we'll be seeing a lot more often.
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25 Jun |
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"We take the security of our members very seriously," said LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira in the company's vague but official blog post about the company's massive data breach. He's such a fibber.
Stilgherrian |
08 Jun |
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The most remarkable thing about the [[xref: http://www.cso.com.au/article/425914/researchers_identify_stuxnet-like_cyberespionage_malware_called_flame_/|Flame worm|]] is that it's dominating global news. Not that Flame isn't newsworthy. Most people are still unaware of the scope and scale of online espionage. It's new to the audience, therefore it is news. But why now?
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30 May |
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Kaspersky Lab chief and glorious global megatroll Eugene Kaspersky made headlines last month when he suggested that Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft when it comes to security. Cupertino's fanboys hated it. But he's right.
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24 May |
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