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SC caught up with Harry Archer, principal security consultant and head of security practice at BT Australia recently to discuss the current state of security in Australia, or it seemed, the lack of it.

Gartner analysts from around the world are arriving in Australia in preparation for next month’s Gartner Security Summit in Sydney.
The fourth annual Gartner IT Security Summit kicks off this month and SC met with Andrew Walls, Gartner's local security analyst, for a sneak peak at the event's hot topics. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. The introduction of mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Australia has been set in motion. ‘Security by obscurity’ seems to be a popular Australian fallacy. Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis has warned local government agencies and businesses to adhere closely to the Privacy Act in order to avoid a disastrous UK style data breach. After six months of discussion, Kaspersky Lab and IT security distributor Open Systems Australia have finalised a distribution partnership agreement. Fifty financial institutions in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region were hit with a well crafted pharming attack this week. Symantec has announced that it will acquire Sydney-based security vendor PC Tools. Chip and PIN credit cards are hitting Australian shores. Negar Salek, demystifies the emerging secure payment technology and its potential benefits. Microsoft’s Asia Pacific piracy investigator has warned that Australia is a prime target for Chinese fraudsters trading in the sale of high quality counterfeit products.
Symantec has found that nearly 80 percent of businesses surveyed in Australia have had some form of data breach. Antivirus product sales will slow in Australia in the next five years as enterprises broaden their use of security technologies. Corporate data breaches - which can lead to identity theft - are occurring in Australia and without disclosure laws similar to those in the US those affected will never know they are at risk, claim Gartner analysts.
VeriSign today announced strong growth for its VIP identity protection service, including the imminent launch of DocLocker, an online document storage system. Kaspersky Lab is going to open a regional office in Melbourne to strengthen its business in Oceania.
A significant proportion of hard disks analysed in an ongoing study contained sensitive data about businesses and individuals. Australian distributor Unixpac is looking for resellers for its US security vendor Shavlik Technologies. Community-organised hacker conference, Ruxcon, is aiming to attract a ‘more diverse field’ of attendees to its annual event in November.