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Small business privacy laws must be amended: Fed Govt committee
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety has advised the Federal Government to amend the Privacy Act 1988 to ensure certain small businesses are subject to the requirements of the Act.
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Federal Government releases response to Privacy Act recommendations
The Federal Government has released its first response to a comprehensive review of Australia's privacy laws in the digital age.
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Govt agencies losing portable data: Privacy Commissioner
Many Australian government agencies do not have appropriate controls covering the use of portable storage devices (PSDs) for the handling of personal information which is being lost at an alarming rate, according to new research by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
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UniSA launches sustainable energy centre
The University of South Australia (UniSA) has opened a Sustainable Energy Industry Support Centre aimed at speeding up the development of advanced solar thermal technologies.
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AusCERT 2013: Cloud-based scanner identifies new malware by its ancestry
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Dell targets ANZ security opportunities as SecureWorks debuts locally
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AusCERT 2013: Users, cats more likely hack culprits than cyber-espionage: Trustwave
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AusCERT 2013: International cyberwar response more complex than geopolitical treaties: NATO CCD COE analyst
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AusCERT 2013: Ashley Deuble: Network Security Monitoring with Security Onion
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!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
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.
