A six-month review of Australia's cybersecurity defences will be undertaken to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's cybersecurity strategy, prime minister Tony Abbott has announced.
David Braue |
28 Nov |
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The European CEO of a company behind a spyware app called StealthGenie was on Wednesday ordered to pay a $500,000 penalty for selling and promoting the software to US consumers.
Liam Tung |
27 Nov |
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Despite years of education about security threats, software developers in Australia and elsewhere are still writing code that is too insecure and will open up massive holes as the Internet of Things (IoT) develops, IBM's X-Force security arm has warned as a prologue to recent research that found most malware threats continue to come from outside of Australia but can nonetheless affect all countries.
David Braue |
26 Nov |
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Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim released a new Privacy Regulatory Action Policy as the iappANZ Privacy Summit kicked off. Also instructive on the policy front was Scotland's National Health Service, which shared its experience meeting healthcare privacy requirements with attendees. Vodafone's head of privacy was also on hand, pointing out that economics is playing an increasing role in discussions about the risks of privacy.
David Braue |
25 Nov |
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Symantec has revealed details about a family of malware it says is a “top tier” espionage tool with sophisticated features on a level comparable with Flame and Stuxnet.
Liam Tung |
24 Nov |
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Although there's obviously a significant interest in privacy from a legal and compliance perspective, Vodafone's head of privacy, Stephen Deadman, told the audience at the recent IAPP Summit that there's an increasing focus on economics.
Anthony Caruana |
20 Nov |
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While Australian IT security executives name Web site data breaches as their top priority, only 1 in 3 companies rates itself as 'very experienced' in fighting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and nearly half have never tested their DDoS mitigation skills.
David Braue |
20 Nov |
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The war on tech support scams continues with the latest legal action targeting operations accused of fleecing consumers of $120 million — including one that sold “lifetime” packages for a real AV product.
Liam Tung |
20 Nov |
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Coverage of the recent G20 Summit included many images of protestors arguing the cause of a free Tibet, but the event also saw cybercriminals weighing in on the Tibet issue as they targeted G20 protestors with customised malware coincidental to the high-profile event.
David Braue |
20 Nov |
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Privacy laws around the world are playing a game of catch up as emerging technologies change the nature of information gathering, storage and processing in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago.
Anthony Caruana |
19 Nov |
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It is almost impossible to attend any event that has an IT edge without hearing about the Internet of Things. Until recently, we only really used the Internet as a way of connecting people via computers and servicer. But we are hurtling forward into a world where all sorts of devices have sensors and controls that can be connected, controlled and read over the Internet. That's the Internet of Things.
Anthony Caruana |
19 Nov |
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Christmas may still be over a month away, but cyber-criminals were clearly enjoying the festive cheer early as they ramped up their onslaught of holiday-themed phishing emails. Human rights groups and other NGOs were also struggling with malware attacks – as was peak meteorological body the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
David Braue |
19 Nov |
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Very few people wouldn’t have an embarrassing photo hiding away. Or have made a silly comment that they wish would be forgotten. Or perhaps a minor criminal matter that is long past but keeps bobbing up, hindering you even though it is long since past.
Anthony Caruana |
19 Nov |
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If you want to really sit at the bleeding edge of personal privacy, spend some time thinking about storing and sharing personal health records for entire population. That's what Scotland's National Health Service embarked on and succeeded in delivering.
Anthony Caruana |
18 Nov |
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Imagine trying to write policy around privacy and the Internet back in the 1990s. It was a world with fewer than 20 million internet users, most of them based in the United States. The task was given to Larry Irving in 1994 after he co-authored a paper on internet privacy. He became the first internet advisor to the then Clinton-Gore government.
Anthony Caruana |
18 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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The US State Department has shut down its unclassified email system to remediate possible damage caused by hackers.
Liam Tung |
17 Nov |
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Eight months after the Australian government introduced a major overhaul of privacy legislation, organisations of all sizes are well and truly on notice that they need to take privacy seriously – but the dangers of non-compliance are much more than just fines, according to one privacy expert.
David Braue |
14 Nov |
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Many senior executives still fail to recognise that information security is crucial to their company's survival and less than one in ten sees poor data security as the greatest risk to their business, according to an NTT Com Security survey released this week.
David Braue |
14 Nov |
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