Last week was all about WannaCry, the ransomware that piggybacked on a Windows exploit that had originally been developed by the US National Security Agency and was exposed to the world during the recent WikiLeaks hacking dump.
David Braue |
22 May |
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If you installed HandBrake on a Mac last week, there's a good you were infected with Mac malware.
Liam Tung |
09 May |
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A phishing attack or ransomware infection could signal your organisation is about to be fleeced by email fraudsters.
Liam Tung |
05 May |
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You won't have to remember your Microsoft password ever again with the new Microsoft Authenticator app.
Liam Tung |
20 Apr |
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Attackers are targeting Office users with a flaw that Microsoft hasn’t patched yet. But it will patch it tomorrow, according to the researcher who first reported the bug to Microsoft.
Liam Tung |
11 Apr |
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The confluence of new technologies is set to help businesses move away from password-based authentication towards a more-secure, less-invasive approach that relies heavily on behavioural monitoring and a range of inputs from smartphones and other devices.
David Braue |
22 Mar |
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IBM has rolled out its Watson cognitive capabilities to do battle with rival enterprise mobile device management (MDM) platforms.
Liam Tung |
21 Mar |
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Microsoft wants hackers to focus on malicious attachments and macros.
Liam Tung |
16 Mar |
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Some accelerometers don't protect against acoustics that forge acceleration signals.
Liam Tung |
15 Mar |
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Australian businesses need to stop talking about diversity and undertake concrete steps to remedy the chronic under-representation of women and minority groups within ICT roles, an Australian Computer Society (ACS) executive has warned as figures suggest that efforts to attract women to ICT-related roles continue to flounder.
David Braue |
24 Feb |
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Microsoft's Windows 10 Edge will prevent malware loading into memory. Does that make it more secure than Google's Chrome?
Liam Tung |
24 Feb |
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As organisations grapple with the opportunities and challenges posed by digital transformation, many are realising the important role identity management will play.
Mark Perry |
23 Feb |
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Escalating attacks on Elasticsearch clusters have led to thousands of implementations being wiped and replaced with a ransom note.
Liam Tung |
17 Jan |
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The security industry’s predictions for 2017 have been flying thick and fast in the leadup to the Christmas break, but consistency between the key themes suggests that the safe money is on a rise in damaging distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and increasingly sophisticated human-targeted compromises.
David Braue |
23 Dec |
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CISOs are still few and far between in Australia, where new figures suggest many companies are channelling money into security consultants rather than hiring information-security executives.
David Braue |
13 Dec |
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Former communications minister, Stephen Conroy has warned that Australian government technology decision makers need to start preparing for the development of quantum computing.
Andrew Colley |
05 Dec |
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The US election had the tech world – and, indeed, the entire world – waiting with bated breath as the FBI decided, again, not to charge Hillary Clinton in its investigation of her private email server.
David Braue |
14 Nov |
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Ashton Kutcher is best known as an actor and producer, but he is also a successful tech investor having taken stakes in companies such as Airbnb, Foursquare, Meerkat, Spotify and Uber.
Stephen Withers |
08 Nov |
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There's been a significant shift in cyber-attacks over recent years. Although we often call this change an increase in sophistication, it's really a response to how security strategies have been developed and executed.
Anthony Caruana |
25 Oct |
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A firm with operations in India and the US has been charged for using pop-up ads to scare consumers into calling tech support to pay for services they don’t need.
Liam Tung |
14 Oct |
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