New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won’t rat you out to the ICO
The new National Cyber Security Centre is pitching itself to CEOs as a friendly government organisation which won’t get the…
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IoT Devices as Proxies for Cybercrime
Multiple stories published here over the past few weeks have examined the disruptive power of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices…
Email security: We CAN fix the tech, but what about the humans?
Last month’s Mr Chow ransomware attacks serve as a timely reminder that security should be at the top of any…
Amazon Preventively Resets Customer Passwords
Amazon has prompted some of its customers to reset their passwords after learning that these might have been used to…
Researchers Demonstrated How NSA Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections
In the year 2014, we came to know about the NSA’s ability to break Trillions of encrypted connections by exploiting common implementations…
Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap — Calling All Women
As cyberthreats have become more sophisticated, networks more complex and cybersecurity issues of greater concern at the board level, demand…
Shadow IT and Infrequent Audits Open Door to Data Security Vulnerabilities in the Cloud
Lack of visibility into an organisation’s use of cloud providers can lead to unauthorised access to data, improper handling and…
90 percent of IT decision makers think identity and access management is critical in the digital transformation process
Study finds that fewer than ten percent of enterprise IT leaders have fully migrated to cloud; security and identity and…
Oz infosec spooks: ease back on the “cybers”, this is serious
For example, not-China* didn’t “hack the BoM’s supercomputers” Sensationalist language is making it hard to educate businesses and the public…
One-quarter of UK police websites lack a secure connection
An alarming proportion of cops’ websites lack any form of automatic secure connection, meaning potentially sensitive data is communicated in…
