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Patching is dead and costly, according to John Stewart, chief security officer at Cisco Systems, who presented a keynote address at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, today. AusCERT's director Nick Tate kicked-off the AusCERT Asia-Pacific Information Security Conference today celebrating the organisation’s 15th birthday in front of more than one thousand local and international delegates.
Today, AusCERT released the results of its new home computer security survey, which it identifies is a growing target area for cybercriminals. The number of successful attacks on .au domain names has increased over the past 12 months, according to the latest Cyber Hack Update 2008 report from TippingPoint. Biometric technologies for authentication purposes are years away from being ready for use, according to head of security at UK’s trade association for payments, APACS. Conference organiser reveals the hot topics and speakers at Australia’s premier security conference which kicks off next week. Delegates at this year’s AusCERT’s Information Security Conference in the Gold Coast will have access to individual keypads in a move to improve audience interaction. Is it safe to take your mobile devices with you to the Beijing Olympic Games? Queenslanders are forking out around $500,000 a month to Nigerian email scammers. Update: A phishing campaign targeted students and staff of Australian universities last month, according to an advisory from Auscert, Australia's National Emergency Response Team. The looming November 11 Cyber Jihad attack against the West which surfaced in media reports last week is ‘more hype than reality’ according to the chief research officer at the SANS Technology Institute. Based on his recent tour of Australian capital cities Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, discusses the importance of privacy protection in Australia Despite its UK address, the spoofed Dell email targeted Australians. Australian IT professionals will have an opportunity to discuss critical security issues with security experts during AusCERT2007. Security vendor to increase services opportunity for partners after seeing its local headcount and revenue figures rise. A new website dedicated to increasing IT security awareness for home and small business users launched today as part of the Federal Government’s National E-Security Awareness Week. The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team issued an advisory Thursday warning of a flaw in the 802.11 wireless protocol that makes WLANs vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack.