The week in security: As bugs persist, maybe Australians really should care more about privacy
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Web accelerator and CDN provider Cloudflare has become such a critical component of the web that when it goes down, so do many others.
A recent spate of damaging DNS-level attacks was promulgated with “terrifying” ease by cybercriminals who leveraged compromised access credentials rather than even having to hack the DNS servers themselves, a DNS expert has warned.
David Braue | 01 Jul | Read more
Australian security and infrastructure managers were scrambling to contain an explosion of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks after April saw a more than four-fold jump in the number of DDoS attacks directed at our shores, according to new figures.
David Braue | 08 May | Read more
It was perhaps eerily appropriate that, during the week of the Commonwealth Games, records were falling both at the venues and in the world of cybersecurity.
David Braue | 16 Apr | Read more
Almost 1-in-5 (18-per cent) of businesses experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack within a year-long timeframe, according to the Global IT Security Risks Survey 2014 - Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks from Kaspersky Labs and B2B International.
David Geer | 07 Apr | Read more
Almost 50% of Australian security executives are concerned about the current state of their company’s security in dealing with advanced attacks. Find out in this infographic the survey results of how respondents feel about dealing with security breaches effectively.