“Short memory spans” are continuing to exacerbate organisational security shortcomings and accelerating a trend away from point security solutions in favour of fewer, better integrated platforms, a senior regional security executive has reported.
David Braue | 23 Oct | Read more
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more
One or more salaried ethical hackers will be brought onboard to manage the security exposure of the software output of the government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO), which recently announced the job opening as part of a recruitment campaign to kick-start its work in pushing Australian government agencies online.
David Braue | 09 Sep | Read more
Government organisations are setting the pace in Australia and New Zealand as they race to implement tighter document controls to rein in the flexibility afforded by newly-mobile computing environments, the local head of secure collaboration software maker BlackBerry believes.
David Braue | 23 Jul | Read more
Rapid maturation of identity and access management (IAM) technology has dovetailed with Australia's “flat-out inspiring” focus on customer service to drive surging demand for formal training in IAM skills, one industry figure has reported after a flying visit to touch base with increasingly identity-minded local customers.
David Braue | 22 Jun | Read more