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New privacy laws have spread across the US and could be enforced in Australia 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.

A new botnet which specialises in sending out phishing spam has prompted security experts to call for enterprises to review their security protection. Gartner analysts from around the world are arriving in Australia in preparation for next month’s Gartner Security Summit in Sydney.
Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author has been selected to run a new government organisation whose mission is to protect the computer networks of federal agencies from attack, his former company announced on Thursday. Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2004 and a champion of identity theft protection for consumers, announced Thursday that she plans to leave her post in late March. 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. In a clear sign that Microsoft is serious about its entrance into the information security space, the software giant this week confirmed the hiring of highly regarded former McAfee executive and anti-virus veteran Vincent Gullotto. Kent Roberts, executive vice president and general counsel at McAfee, has been elected chairman of the Business Software Alliance's (BSA) board of directors for 2006. Information security experts have given their overall thumbs-up to the ALRC’s mandatory data breach disclosure recommendations, but admit the course of action needs fine-tuning.
The youthful president and CEO of Veracode tells Paul Fisher why SaaS is the only way forward for vulnerability scanning. Internet users still make irresponsible online purchasing decisions despite ongoing warnings about the dangers of responding to unsolicited emails, a new survey has found. After the recent worm outbreak on Facebook and MySpace, the social networking sites and security experts are working to prevent future attacks. Organisations that hold personal data should be made liable for fraudulent transactions, say BT security experts. The first months of 2008 has seen spam levels rise with the economic situation and Olympics adding fuel to the fire. Security experts have developed a hybrid file type that looks like an image but can also run a Java applet surreptitiously in a browser.
Is ignorance bliss? Not when it comes to data loss. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware.