The holidays in security: Breaches drive governments to bug bounties
Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue | 08 Jan | Read more
Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue | 08 Jan | Read more
Nation-state hackers could be undermining Twitter's efforts to clamp down on state-backed trolls.
Commercial and consumer products affected.
Facebook to double the size of its security team after Russia abuses the social network.
A coalition of lawyers, security experts, and rights advocates are campaigning to stop a plan to require foreigners reveal social media passwords before entering the US.
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.
It didn’t take long for hackers to leverage the newly released Mirai source code to build new Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, with an observed surge in Mirai-generated botnets.
David Braue | 24 Oct | Read more
The Australian government has had a mixed bag of outcomes this year around cybersecurity, with many lauding its leadership in the area
David Braue | 29 Aug | Read more
Twitter has suspended at least two accounts that were spreading links to spyware aimed at people who sympathise with terrorists.
There are many benefits to having your employees active on social media. Exposure, name recognition and free publicity come to mind. But there are potholes along the way.
Scott Goldman | 06 Jul | Read more
Twitter's not to blame, but the company is taking action to protect users affected by the recent breach.
LeakedSource says it has a database of more than 32 million stolen Twitter credentials. Luckily, checking to see if you're affected is easy.
Security executives should build up an arsenal of use-cases and real-world examples rather than talking in vagaries when educating employees about the threats that social-media channels have opened into modern organisations, a local IT-industry channels specialist has warned.
David Braue | 10 May | Read more
Use of security questions to verify users' identities declined throughout 2015 as SMS authentication grew, according to an audit of cloud-application usage that also revealed small businesses were as likely as large ones to adopt cloud applications.
David Braue | 31 Mar | Read more
Nearly 200 organisations and individuals have signed an open letter demanding governments reject laws that undermine encryption or mandate backdoors.