Stories by Liam Tung

Spend more on cops, less on antivirus, say researchers

Britain is spending far too much on security software and not enough on law enforcement in the war on cybercrime, Cambridge University security researcher Ross Anderson has told CSO.com.au.

Liam Tung | 13 Jun | Read more

Smart meter data a huge privacy risk, says EU watchdog

Europe’s independent privacy watchdog is pushing for tight controls over smart meter data collection, fearing the data could be used to exploit and harm consumers.

Liam Tung | 12 Jun | Read more

Now League of Legends hit by hackers

Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, is warning all its 32 million users to change their passwords after hackers breached its western European, Nordic and eastern European database.

Liam Tung | 11 Jun | Read more

AMD video cards may cause BSOD in high security environments

Organisations running high security environments are being advised to avoid AMD or ATI video cards which could trigger a ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) freeze due to a failure to implement important anti-exploitation technologies.

Liam Tung | 07 Jun | Read more

Google to warn 'suspected' state-sponsored targets

Google will notify users when it suspects they are being targeted by nation states or their private contractors via a pink ribbon at the top of the page (of a signed-in user).

Liam Tung | 06 Jun | Read more

Flame Nightmare: stolen Microsoft certs spoof Microsoft Update

The stolen Microsoft certificates it revoked on Monday were used by the Flame malware to launch a man-in-the-middle (MITM) ‘spoofing’ attack on the Microsoft Update security update system, according to F-Secure.

Liam Tung | 05 Jun | Read more

CloudFlare boss’s Gmail hacked in redirect attack on 4Chan

Content distribution network CloudFlare reset all its customer API keys over the weekend after its CEO’s personal and corporate Gmail was breached in an “elaborate” attack on one customer, which appears to have been the 4Chan message board.

Liam Tung | 04 Jun | Read more

McAfee’s AV study shows why Win8’s Defender is needed

McAfee’s estimate that 17 per cent of PC users worldwide do not run AV is why Microsoft should extend its Windows 8 enhanced Defender-by-default to older and even pirated Windows.

Liam Tung | 01 Jun | Read more

Flame a glimpse into the Bermuda triangle of malware

The bloated, modular Flame malware may or may not be the biggest threat since Stuxnet, but its tardy discovery highlights the limits of antivirus in a world where governments are investing heavily in offensive cyber capabilities.

Liam Tung | 31 May | Read more

Official Australian e-health info page defaced

An apparent trio of ‘hackers’ operating under the LatinHackTeam banner has claimed the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing eHealth education site as its 13,789th ‘defacement‘ victim.

Liam Tung | 30 May | Read more

Syrians, Iranians endangered by key-log tricked proxy

Iranians and Syrians that search the web for a popular censorship evading proxy, ‘Simurgh’, are at risk of downloading a fake, trojanised version of the privacy tool.

Liam Tung | 30 May | Read more

Aussie drug prescriptions sit pretty for health fraud

Drug dealers that sell prescription steroids, opioids and other “Schedule 8” controlled drugs, are exploiting the lack of consistency in legitimate Australian prescription documents, according to a Queensland Health investigator.

Liam Tung | 29 May | Read more

Email attackers take a weekend breather

Email attacks which contain malicious attachments consistently fell on weekends, according to an analysis of the first quarter of 2012 by US security and malware analytics vendor, FireEye.

Liam Tung | 28 May | Read more

Bredolab botmaster jailed for four years

One of the operators behind the mega spamming Bredolab botnet, which Dutch authorities took down in 2010, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment in Armenia.

Liam Tung | 24 May | Read more

Google to notify 500,000 DNSChanger victims today

Half a million people may receive a warning from Google today that their computer or router is showing signs of infection by the infamous DNSChanger malware.

Liam Tung | 23 May | Read more

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