Conventional views of credential compromise may focus on external activities such as mass credential-stuffing attacks and password-stealing malware, but new breach-compromise statistics suggest that the fast-paced adoption of cloud and associated DevOps techniques has created other vulnerabilities that CISOs still don’t fully appreciate.
David Braue | 08 Feb | Read more
Your PC or phone soon might not work when connecting to a non-compliant USB Type-C charger.
US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
The next version of Windows 10 will contain goodies for malware researchers.
More than half of Australian companies believe they have very mature cybersecurity protections even though most are ignoring clear best-practice guidelines from the Australian Signals Directorate, according to a new end-user survey that also found just 46 percent of companies run staff security training more than once per year.
David Braue | 26 Sep | Read more
The workers in Telstra’s mailroom knew something was strange when the room was clogged with workers asking for the packages they had been sent.
David Braue | 10 Aug | Read more
Eurovision may have accepted Australia as one of its own, but Australian businesses may be hoping European Union authorities forget about them for a while as survey after survey suggests that they have missed today’s deadline for compliance with the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) by a country mile.
David Braue | 25 May | Read more
Concerns over the security of companies’ development cultures were validated for an Australian cybersecurity specialist after a recent global scan of GitHub projects identified more than 200,000 servers where developers had left hardcoded passwords and other sensitive information in publicly available source code.
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more
Cybercriminals’ surging interest in cryptocurrency miners has seen the quickly-evolving technique apparently displacing ransomware, a new analysis has found, as instigators work to keep ahead of enterprises’ slowly-maturing information defences.
David Braue | 28 Mar | Read more
Reports that information-security and risk-expertise are attracting salary premiums have long been rife, but the extent of the gap has been quantified even as new training courses and partnerships expand the breadth of available security specialisations.
David Braue | 22 Mar | Read more
More than a few Israeli security researchers are reconsidering their personal purchase of home security cameras, baby monitors, doorbells and thermostats after a hackathon revealed “truly frightening” security vulnerabilities that highlight the true extent of the Internet of Things (IoT) security threat to individuals and enterprises.
David Braue | 15 Mar | Read more
"These aren’t bugs that need to be fixed, but rather insecure practices that should be stopped entirely," say Princeton privacy researchers.
Microsoft releases new Windows Analytics features to help IT pros deal with the Meltdown and Spectre cleanup.
Staring down a growing compliance burden, IT-security executives are warming to the clarity of the ASD Essential 8 and security audits that are helping them educate boards and pinpoint key areas for remediation in the last months before Australia’s Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme comes into effect.
David Braue | 15 Nov | Read more
End-users are juggling far more passwords than prior studies have estimated, according to a new analysis by LastPass that suggests the average employee is tracking 191 different passwords.
David Braue | 02 Nov | Read more
Contextualise education campaigns to convince employees why they should care
David Braue | 31 Oct | Read more
Appliance giant responded quickly, but IoT is growing and most vendors don’t plan ahead nearly as well
David Braue | 30 Oct | Read more
Australians are becoming more concerned about their privacy and businesses are signing on for privacy-awareness activities as a result, the government’s information commissioner has noted as figures suggest 40 percent of Australians are uncomfortable with the government using their personal details for research or policy-making purposes.
David Braue | 20 Oct | Read more
This interactive session will bring you and your peers up to date on the latest in credential management, and its role in containing security risks that you may not even know about.
Any company operating a multi-storey office building would develop painstaking fire escape plans, and any hospital would develop backup plans detailing how it could operate in the event of a power failure. So, if responsible businesses are actively addressing these risks, why are so many companies still failing to lay down detailed plans for dealing with a cybersecurity incident?
David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
Why nation-state attacks are everyone’s problem
Hear from Invictus Games Sydney 2019 CEO, Patrick Kidd OBE and Head of Technology, @James-d-smith -share their insights on how they partnered with Unisys to protect critical data over an open, public WiFi solution.
With so much change all the time, how can executives best prepare their businesses to meet the security challenges of the coming years? CSO Australia, in conjunction with Mimecast, explored this question in an interactive Webinar that looks at how the threat landscape has evolved – and what we can expect in 2019 and beyond.
An interview with CSO's David Braue and Ian Yip, Chief Technology Officer, McAffee.
According to new research conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Australia and New Zealand have the highest levels of data breaches out of the nine countries investigated. This was linked to heavy investment in security detection and an under-investment in security and vulnerability response capabilities
