The government's plan to force telecommunications providers to retain a set of metadata for every person has privacy advocates up in arms and police and security agencies telling us that this legislation is essential for fight crime in the 21st century.
Anthony Caruana |
25 Feb |
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Credit card providers Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they will roll out their tokenisation technology in Australia at some point in 2015 while Visa said the service will launch in Europe by mid-April.
Liam Tung |
25 Feb |
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The government's plan to force telecommunications providers to retain a set of metadata for every person has privacy advocates up in arms and police and security agencies telling us that this legislation is essential for fight crime in the 21st century.
Anthony Caruana |
24 Feb |
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Post-mortem analysis of the high-profileCarbanak banking heist continues to suggest that the $1 billion-plus series of attacks not only represent a high-water mark in the panoply of major crimes, but has been executed by cybercriminals exploiting the same sort of human weaknesses that security experts have been warning about for decades.
David Braue |
20 Feb |
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It can be weeks or months before conventional antivirus solutions can properly detect new malware signatures, security firm Damballa has warned after an analysis showed that 28 percent of malware took more than a week to be addressed through a signature update.
David Braue |
19 Feb |
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Malware authors are proving increasingly successful at seeding fake Google Chrome extensions on Facebook. Appropriate, then, that Facebook launched a platform called ThreatExchange in which users can share information about security threats with their friends.
David Braue |
18 Feb |
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A surge in orders for small-format fingerprint readers suggests that fingerprint-recognition capabilities may be built into a broad range of consumer products by the end of this year, according to a report from Norwegian biometrics manufacturer NEXT Biometrics Group.
David Braue |
11 Feb |
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Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) will be able to get device-level information about malware infections on their customers' computers after the Australian Internet Security Initiative (AISI) launched an online portal into its expanding malware database.
David Braue |
29 Nov |
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At the opening keynote of the IAPPANZ Summit, Australia's Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim announced the release of his office's new Privacy Regulatory Action Policy.
Anthony Caruana |
17 Nov |
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Security is “a massively complex topic,” according to Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies, who cited considerations including transparency (telling people how you will use the data you collect), protection (sadly, the bad guys seem to be smarter than the good guys, so organisations need to work together and share information about compromises) and identity (so data can be protected without frustrating bona fide users).
Stephen Withers |
17 Nov |
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Exchange admins hoping to receive Microsoft’s quarterly update for the email platform will have to wait weeks more due issues caused by a security fix that was scheduled to be released today.
Liam Tung |
12 Nov |
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As federal Parliament considers data-retention legislation introduced this week, a survey of Australian businesses has found that despite majority support for the move, businesses are concerned that slack controls will compromise the security of, and control over use of, that information.
David Braue |
30 Oct |
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Security is big business these days. With our old approach of blocking everyone at the border failing - mainly because no-one knows where the border is anymore - a risk-based approach is driving the way businesses think about their information and systems security.
Anthony Caruana |
22 Oct |
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Bruce Hafaele is the Chief Architect at Healthdirect Australia where he is responsible for technology strategy, architecture, software delivery and operations.
Anthony Caruana |
04 Sep |
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Specialist recruitment giant Peoplebank is seeing significant time savings after implementing a digital signature system that has significantly improved its everyday work processes.
David Braue |
02 Apr |
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Paraphrasing the song made famous in the 1960s by The Troggs and wonderfully updated by Bill Nighy in "Love Actually" Big Data is really all around us. We are making more and more data about ourselves available to a broader audience. But what if that data is stolen? Is it useful to anyone?
Anthony Caruana |
07 Mar |
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Here’s a challenge. Take a nation with a population in excess of 1.2 billion people and create a database that gives each and every person a unique 12-digit identifier and stores their fingerprints, a photograph and their iris. The purpose is to provide secure authentication and access to services.
Anthony Caruana |
10 Oct |
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Security firm Clearswift has acquired endpoint solutions developer Jedda Systems for an undisclosed sum.
Hamish Barwick |
10 Sep |
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Cloud-computing consultancy Paradyne will offer its customers cloud identity and access management (IAM) tools from Centrify, giving that company’s cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) technology a big leg up in a local market where cloud-based services are rapidly gaining enterprise legitimacy.
David Braue |
03 Sep |
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The inherently casual and decentralised nature of cloud services will increasingly push organisations to reconsider their identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure, an Ovum analyst has warned.
David Braue |
20 Aug |
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