High-profile hacking group LulzSec has taken over the website of UK newspaper The Sun, inserting a fake news story and then redirecting the home page to their own Twitter feed. Other News International sites have also been hacked.
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19 Jul |
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The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is further entrenched as the key international legal instrument for tackling online crime following the third annual Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General in Sydney this week.
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17 Jul |
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The hack of Sony's PlayStation Network in April this year was launched from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform. But Amazon is keen to emphasise that it has procedures in place to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
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14 Jul |
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Most statistical information about online crime comes from vendors trying to flog products and governments eager for new police powers. We need something better. A lot better.
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12 Jul |
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Attorneys-General from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia will meet in Sydney next week to discuss joint actions to address the growth of online threats.
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08 Jul |
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The "air gap" -- the idea that a physical gap between between an industrial control network and an organisation's business network will prevent attacks from reaching critical control systems -- is "one of the most enduring fairy tales in the field", according to leading US critical infrastructure security consultant Eric Byres.
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05 Jul |
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Advertising for pharmaceuticals is still the most common type of spam globally, despite a 24 percentage point drop in share since the end of 2010. The new fake online pharmacy brand WikiPharmacy is to blame, says Symantec.
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01 Jul |
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After nearly four chaotic years, Australia's internet filtering scheme is finally coming together in a way that makes sense technically and politically, if not necessarily for effective child protection.
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30 Jun |
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