News about cyber attacks
  • Aussie CIOs feel unprepared to deal with cyber attacks: survey

    By David Braue | 16 April, 2013 14:12

    Australian CIOs have given themselves a woeful report card when asked to rank their organisation’s preparedness to deal with cyber attacks, according to new research findings.

  • North Korea attracts Anonymous threats and leaks

    By Liam Tung | 03 April, 2013 16:01

    Hackers claiming to be part of ‘Anonymous’ say they have stolen 15,000 passwords from Uriminzokkiri.com, a North Korea run website hosted in China.

  • The year in review: 2011-2012

    By James Lyne | 13 December, 2011 13:28 | 2 Comments

    2011 has been characterised by highly visible cyber attacks and diversification by cyber criminals to target new platforms, the use of mobile devices for business has come to the fore. 2011 has also seen the UK Government place a heavy focus on the importance of cyber security. The activities of a number of high-profile hacktivist groups without the financial motives of previous years, have made uncomfortable headlines for many companies, raising cyber security as a topic among a much wider audience.

  • Is attack attribution a lost cause?

    By Robert Layton | 13 October, 2011 08:51

    One of the cornerstones of policing is the ability to identify perpetrators to bring them to justice.

  • Opinion: Breadth First Hacking

    By Robert Layton | 13 August, 2011 10:20 | 2 Comments

    Recent publicity for online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec has seemed to show that nobody is immune from attack on the Internet. Once targeted, it seems that these groups are capable of breaching security systems and retrieving data, including identity information, from the most secure systems.

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Security Awareness Tip

Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).


  1. Have an incident response plan.

  2. Pre-define your incident response team 

  3. Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.

  4. Pre-distribute call cards.

  5. Forensic and incident response data capture.

  6. Get your users on-side.

  7. Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement. 

  8. Practice makes perfect.

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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping

I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.