Businesses hobbled by deficiencies in security resourcing as IoT-driven DDoS volumes surge
Targeted attacks have made DDoS attacks part of everyday life – but businesses aren’t ready
David Braue | 25 Jan | Read more
Targeted attacks have made DDoS attacks part of everyday life – but businesses aren’t ready
David Braue | 25 Jan | Read more
Lawmakers have been warned that cyber attacks are going to get physical and if they want to have a decent answer when things do go wrong, they’ll need to make laws that force manufacturers to build secure products.
Security's profile may be increasing overall, but transformation-minded executives across Australia and New Zealand have shown scant attention to the area in a survey that put security nearly at the bottom of their list of priorities during digital-transformation efforts.
David Braue | 19 Sep | Read more
Growing enterprise usage of cloud-based file-sharing tools has driven Dropbox to increase the granularity of its access controls and develop a new administration schema upon which additional security features will progressively be rolled out to the company's more than 11,000 Australian and 200,000 worldwide business customers.
David Braue | 01 Aug | Read more
Despite growing recognition of their importance in mounting an effective cybersecurity defence, industry research has suggested that fully one-third of CEOs and 43 percent of management teams are not regularly briefed on cybersecurity.
David Braue | 14 Dec | Read more
Hillary Clinton is learning good BYOD policy the hard way. The former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State (and presumptive Democratic front-runner for President in 2016) is taking heat for using her personal email server for State Department business during her tenure in that post--and possibly deleting official emails in the name of her privacy.
Tony Bradley | 14 Mar | Read more
Almost a year after tipping its hand at Google I/O 2014, Google announced Android for Work, a way to lock down sensitive business data on personal Android phones owned by employees--using versions of Android either old or new.
Mark Hachman | 26 Feb | Read more
After reading about BadUSB, Barbara asked if it was safe to share files through a flash drive. "Would we be safer using a cloud service?"
Lincoln Spector | 18 Nov | Read more
On Wednesday, Microsoft launched MyBulletins, a service designed to streamline the security update process for Microsoft-branded software.
Mark Hachman | 29 May | Read more
Today is Patch Tuesday. It also happens to be the 10-year anniversary of the monthly security patch update. For October, Microsoft released eight new security bulletins--four rated as Critical and four Important. There is one in particular, though, that deserves the most urgent attention.
Tony Bradley | 08 Oct | Read more
PCI compliance may seem like an arcane art if you're a small merchant, but you ignore it at your peril. Non-compliance with the security standards developed by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council carries penalties of $5,000 to $100,000 per month.
Eric Geier | 25 Sep | Read more
The iPhone 5s officially launched last Friday, but already a group of hackers has successfully cracked the fingerprint authentication. In spite of the hype surrounding this news, though, the hack of Touch ID idoesn't change the fact that the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s is the best thing that's happened to iPhone security so far.
Tony Bradley | 25 Sep | Read more
Was it really just a few months ago that your biggest computer-privacy concern was making sure your employer didn't find the college photo of you sucking on a beer bong on your Facebook page? That seems cute now. With the recent revelations that the National Security Agency may have been involved in everything from spying on U.S. residents to cracking online encryption to collecting global financial data, computer privacy has taken on all the cloak-and-dagger intrigue of a John le Carré novel.
It's not Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft has released a crucial update for Internet Explorer that you should apply immediately.
Tony Bradley | 18 Sep | Read more
Miley Cyrus is dangerous. That's not a commentary on her music. It isn't even an indictment of her recent twerking antics at the MTV Video Music Awards. Miley Cyrus is one of the most dangerous Web celebrities when it comes to cyber threats according to the McAfee 2013 Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity report.
Tony Bradley | 17 Sep | Read more