Latest Security News

• 25 May 2013

• News: Barracuda Networks: Juggling two different channels a challenge

  The challenge for Barracuda Networks' channel strategy is dealing with the different channels, according to Asia Pacific managing director, Jeff Hurmuses.

• News: AusCERT 2013: Deploying BYOD in a government environment

  Strong executive desire to use iPhones led the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities to start looking for solutions that would separate government from personal information.

• 24 May 2013

• News: Schnucks wants federal court to handle data breach lawsuit

  St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnuck Markets has claimed that a potential class action lawsuit filed against it in an Illinois state court over a recent data breach really belongs in federal court because of the case's scope and damages involved

• News: Layered defenses largely fail to block exploits, says NSS

  Research lab finds a mix of products from different vendors is best for 'defense in depth'

• News: Researchers warn of increased Zeus malware activity this year

  The amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro.

• News: Researchers find unusual malware targeting Tibetan users in cyberespionage operation

  Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET discovered a piece of cyberespionage malware targeting Tibetan activists that uses unusual techniques to evade detection and achieve persistency on infected systems.

• News: Google's latest Penguin update lets you squeal on spammy websites -- as well as anyone else

  The latest version of Google's sophisticated anti-spam algorithm, dubbed Penguin 2.0, was announced yesterday in an official blog post from the company's well-known webspam czar, Mike Cutts.

• News: AusCERT 2013: What's it like to be a 'Nigerian scam' victim?

  Feelings of shame and despair at being conned out of $300,000 by a convincing Nigerian based email scam led Queensland interior decorator Jill Ambrose to attempt suicide twice.

• News: Google to lengthen SSL encryption keys from August

  Google plans to upgrade the security of its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, an important component of secure communications.

• News: Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised

  Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.

• News: Could the Bitcoin network be used as an ultrasecure notary service?

  Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.

• 23 May 2013

• News: AusCERT 2013: Police urge banks to install ATM chip technology

  Australians will continue to be ripped off by international crime syndicates unless banks fast track the rollout of ATM chip technology, according to Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Brian Hay.

• News: DHS warns employees that years-old database hole puts their privacy at risk

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday said it has notified employees and others with DHS clearance to be on alert for potential fraud due to a vulnerability discovered in software used by a vendor to process personally identifiable information (PII) for background investigations. The software hole in had been there since July 2009.

• News: Twitter's two-step authentication a good start, experts say

  For celebrities and the average Joe, having two-factor authentication turned on won't protect them against determined hackers, however

• News: U.S. urged to let companies 'hack-back' at IP cyber thieves

  U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.

• News: Researchers find more versions of digitally signed Mac OS X spyware

  Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users.

• News: IT security vendors seen as clueless on industrial control systems

  Even the most innocuous security processes used for traditional IT systems could spell disaster in an ICS

• News: Nation's power grid under constant cyberattack, but Congress lax

  Utilities' cyber defense efforts said to be rapped by legislators, Congressional report finds

• News: Sourcefire tracks malware with added trajectory capabilities

  Sourcefire has introduced malware trajectory capabilities across its advanced malware protection portfolio.

• News: Dell SecureWorks lands in Australia

  Following its launch in Japan in February, information security services provider, Dell SecureWorks, is now moving into the Australian and New Zealand (A/NZ) market as part of the first phase of its Asia-Pacific (APAC) expansion strategy.

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