http://www.csoonline.com.au CSO Online Data Security Briefing en-us Copyright 2009, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:03 +1000 60 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1035281655&rid=-302 Cyber criminals have changed tack in their ongoing scam campaign against banks, moving to the use of government agencies to gain the trust of unsuspecting email recipients. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:49:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1208540801&rid=-302 The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have struck a major blow to a multi-million identity fraud syndicate. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:25:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=722026830&rid=-302 CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:16:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1522702549&rid=-302 The U.S. White House is determined to follow through on its efforts to make cybersecurity a top priority, despite earlier government efforts that have fallen flat, a top official said Wednesday. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:30:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1257455067&rid=-302 Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:05:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1884924318&rid=-302 Gaining attention for advocating a practical shift in how IT leaders think about security, the Consensus Audit Guidelines offer 20 controls to measure and monitor IT-system and network security. Though worries about increased cost often accompany any notion of improving security, John Gilligan, a consultant who developed the guidelines, says he implemented a subset of the controls when he was the Air Force CIO (from 2001 to 2005) and saved money on IT and risk management. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:29:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=15605377&rid=-302 A common misconception is that a shiny new computer is more or less secure because it hasn't yet been exposed to the Internet's sinister underbelly. But the truth is, these machines come out of the box needing scores of patches, some basic security software downloads and the disabling or replacing of items security pros don't typically trust. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:19:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1497813415&rid=-302 An overwhelming majority of Web sites promoted through spam are hosted in China at service providers that many times choose to ignore complaints and allow illegal activity, according to research from the University of Alabama. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:07:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=924102702&rid=-302 Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:26:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1199891186&rid=-302 Firewalls are a mature technology, right? Most companies have at least one, if not several. And since an established knowledge base exists to tap for issues and PCI DSS 1.1 and 1.2 are pretty clear cut, firewall management shouldn't be much of an issue, right? No one is going to suffer the brunt of managing the significant infrastructure change these regulations are bound to bring more than the security operations team, correct? Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:58:00 +1000