Businesses in Australia and New Zealand are reporting fewer data loss incidents per day overall than comparable businesses in other countries but email monitoring and blocking is generating incidents at twice the global average, according to new Intel Security research that also found a threat landscape exploding with new ransomware and mobile malware.
David Braue | 16 Sep | Read more
Twitter has suspended at least two accounts that were spreading links to spyware aimed at people who sympathise with terrorists.
The surge in mobile malware has led many to condemn developers' poor security practices, yet recent NICTA research suggests that – even though data-stealing is ubiquitous among both paid and free Android applications – many mobile application developers are in fact being “duped” into incorporating data-stealing routines into their applications.
David Braue | 03 Jun | Read more
The RSA security conference in the US was on, bringing information-security professionals from around the globe – and pundits onto the stage (check out our photo gallery here). The head of RSA told security professionals they needed to get rid of old mindsets when considering security, while an expert panel concluded that giving encryption keys to the US National Security Agency (NSA) was a bad idea; other experts said a proposed key-escrow plan it just wouldn't work.
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more
As if it wasn't enough that security staff were playing a continuous game of catch-up – investigating an average of 1.5 security breaches per week even as research reveals institutional investors don't believe company boards have the security threat under control – it turns out Australians' world-leading love of social media has made us world-leading targets for ransomware purveyors and malware criminals that are using extremely complex techniques against us.
David Braue | 20 Apr | Read more
For years, information security experts have predicted a spike in mobile malware. Will 2013 be the year of mobile attacks? And what other security threats are on the horizon?
Thor Olavsrud | 09 Jan | Read more