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Expect chaos and catastrophes in security landscape
IT departments are being urged to make use of new technologies like social media, mobility, virtualisation and the cloud. Each of these carries new security risks and IT departments must learn new tactics to successfully secure them, as Merri Mack explains.
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Planes crashing into planes: the reality of cybercrime?
Security vendors like to throw around various apocalyptic scenarios in order to convince IT and security chiefs to buy the latest security doodads. But how realistic are these scenarios? Andrew Collins spoke to one penetration tester about the likelihood of one particular scenario: hackers compromising an airline’s IT security in order to blow up an aeroplane.
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Five business practices that allow cybercriminals to access company data
The reality of cybercrime is that many businesses make it easy for both malicious and inadvertant breaches of company IT security to occur. Rigorous adoption, implementation and enforcement of in-house security guidelines can help limit the threats to data security. These five tips are a good place to start.
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A decade of cybercrime
Since 2000, the number of internet users has grown fivefold from 361 million to 2 billion in 2011. We’ve also seen explosive growth in services and products available online. Today, almost any activity - from personal banking to shopping and social networking - can be carried out over the internet. As such, it has become a treasure trove of money and information that cybercriminals can exploit for their personal gain.
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Challenge for the cloud
The ease of use and accessibility have made cloud computing a popular concept. Now, with the onset of the cloud computing era, it will be up to law enforcement officials, particularly in computer crime forensics, to keep cloud safe for all users.
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Security maintenance pack
Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of Maintenance Pack 2 for Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0. A feature introduced in Maintenance Pack 2 is support for Windows Vista.
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SonicWall email security
SonicWall Email Security provides effective, high-performance and easy-to-use inbound and outbound email threat protection.
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Cyber criminals are targeting mobile devices, warns latest AVG report
Internet and mobile security software distributor AVG has released it's latest Community Powered Threat Report which provides insight, background and analysis on the trends and developments in cybercrime over the previous 3 months. The Q4 2011 report includes the risks of QR codes, stolen digital certificates bypassing security on mobile phones and the persistence of rootkits.
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Largest DDoS in 2011 hits Asian organisation
The largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack of 2011 took place two weeks ago, according to Prolexic Technologies, a company that offers DDoS protection services.
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Expect more severe DDoS attacks this holiday season
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are likely to last longer than usual during the upcoming holiday season, particularly against companies with e-commerce presences.
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Eighty per cent of Aussie businesses experience IT security attacks
Most Australian businesses experienced an IT security attack in 2010, in the form of viruses, worms, phishing attacks or hacks, according to new research from Webroot.
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‘Money mule’ scam targets job seekers
Symantec researchers have detected a new phishing scam that targets job seekers, turns them into inadvertent money launderers and hands unlimited access to their bank accounts over to cybercriminals.
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Cyber security spurns evaluation centre
With cybercrime becoming rife, Huawei has opened a cyber security evaluation centre in the UK to ensure its hardware and software systems will be tested to withstand cyber security threats.
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Telstra faces up to Cyber Storm test
Working closely with government, enterprise customers and industry organisations, Telstra is ready to be put to the test by Cyber Storm III - an international cyber security exercise.
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Hit-and-run attack one of the top security threats in June
Fortinet has published its June 2010 Threat Landscape report which showed that new variations of the Sasfis botnet have entered the malware Top 10 list.
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Creation of oversighting system proposed by ACS to address cybercrime
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has released a report, by leading cyber-safety experts, which recommends the creation of an independent, oversighting system and an annual auditing process for black lists if compulsory ISP filtering is introduced.
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French president's personal bank account hacked
IT security and control firm Sophos is warning all computer users to ensure their PCs are properly defended against hackers following reports that cybercriminals have stolen money from Nicolas Sarkozy's personal bank account.
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Olympic-themed attacks continue
Cyber-criminals are settings their sights on Olympic-affiliated sporting organisations, sending them fake International Olympic Committee (IOC) emails loaded with malicious payloads.
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Beware of webcams
Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centres, are reminding computer users about the importance of properly securing PCs, following news that a man has been jailed for preying on young women via internet webcams.
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Rock Phish variant threatens financial institutions
A new and potentially dangerous variant of the Rock Phish scam is now targetting financial institutions, according to RSA.
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Targeted email attack spoofs government address
MessageLabs has warned Australians to watch out for trojan-laden emails purporting to come from the government.
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Gaming dominates April security threats
Some of the biggest threats to security in April were gaming related.
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Security pros worried about corporate reputation
Damage to corporate reputation is now of major concern to security professionals, according to a new global study.
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Phishing hits record highs
New phishing targets have thrust phishing attacks to an all-time global high.
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CEO and board members responsible for data breaches, survey says
A company's CEOs and its board members should be held accountable for any data breaches, an international survey of security professionals has found.
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Phishers lure MasterCard users with discounts
A new email scam targeting MasterCard users has emerged, researchers from SophosLabs have warned.
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McAfee reviews 2007 security predictions
McAfee has revisited its top ten predictions for security threats in 2007, returning some surprising results.
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APAC financial institutions' security worst in world
Although financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region are global leaders in upholding customers' privacy, they not prepared to handle present and future security threats, says a Deloitte study.
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The cost of data loss
Data loss is costing companies money and customers according to latest research from the IT Policy Compliance Group.
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Security threats commonplace despite preventive measures
Security threats remain common, despite the majority of businesses having an internet security policy, according to a Bread and Butter Research survey of small to medium businesses (SMBs) in Australia and New Zealand.
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Cybercrime becoming more ‘professional’
A recent increase in the use of commercially available hacking toolkits marks the next stage in the corporatisation of cybercrime, according to a Symantec report.
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Security threats cross technological borders
The first half of 2007 saw a spread of malicious activity across various forms of technology and applications, according to an F-Secure Lab security report.
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Internet security concerns on the rise
Public concerns regarding internet security have risen significantly since December 2006, indicates a recent Newspoll survey.
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