New Zealand: over a third of cyber attacks come from state-sponsored hackers
New Zealand releases its annual Cyber Threat Report detailing its work to combat state-backed hackers.
New Zealand releases its annual Cyber Threat Report detailing its work to combat state-backed hackers.
With so many security projects and initiatives taking place across Australia and New Zealand, being chosen as the best security initiative of the last year is a great recognition of strong work over the last year. Kasada (https://www.kasada.io) was rewarded for their work on thwarting bot attacks at the 2017 AusCERT conference.
Anthony Caruana | 05 Jun | Read more
One of Australia’s oldest and most established privacy advocacy bodies has made the leap across the Tasman to open a branch in New Zealand.
Andrew Colley | 11 May | Read more
Businesses in Australia and New Zealand are rushing to introduce formal cyber security awareness programs amongst staff, new figures find, even as those who already have them warn that they are largely ineffective in changing the behaviour of naïve individuals who bend the rules to get their job done.
David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Consumers' increasing reliance on mobile apps during the holiday shopping period has brought a new round of warnings for companies with bring your own device (BYOD) policies that face increased risk of data exfiltration through the use of unscrupulous apps designed to be overly familiar with users' personal information.
David Braue | 10 Dec | Read more
Australia continues to punch well above its weight as a target for online attacks, with new figures from content distribution network Akamai putting us second in the world – behind only the United States – as a target for online Web attacks.
David Braue | 22 May | Read more
Just months into the job, the new local head of security appliance vendor Fortinet is turning to a slew of new hires and partner incentives in an effort to kick-start the company's business across Australia and New Zealand.
David Braue | 04 May | Read more
Token-less authentication company SecurEnvoy, has signed an agreement with distributor Connector Systems, to bring its two-factor authentication product portfolio to a broader market in Australia and New Zealand.
Anthony Caruana | 01 Apr | Read more
The volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks grew more than 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 after previously levelling off, but the locus of global security attacks continued to move away from the Asia-Pacific region, new figures from content distribution giant Akamai have revealed.
David Braue | 26 Mar | Read more
New team's mission is to deliver affordable and easy-to-use IT solutions for businesses to discover, manage and secure their networks
Chris Bowes | 23 Mar | Read more
Less than 1 in 4 Australian and New Zealand businesses is in the advanced stages of planning their cloud rollout – yet with nearly half of CEOs and board members supporting the paradigm and 60 percent of respondents reporting security issues, the other organisation are not free from problems related to the cloud, a Red Hat customer survey has found.
David Braue | 26 Feb | Read more
Australian companies are losing a significant amount of time dealing with what has been estimated to be up to 150 redundant security alerts per day, according to recent figures from security firm FireEye.
David Braue | 30 Jan | Read more
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 | Read more