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New privacy laws have spread across the US and could be enforced in Australia A new botnet which specialises in sending out phishing spam has prompted security experts to call for enterprises to review their security protection. 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.
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. Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth. Global fraud losses rise 22 per cent as spectre of information theft rears its ugly head. 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. The gap between security risks and our ability to tackle them is set to rise. The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced a new programme designed to improve consistency. The largest merchants operating overseas will have less than two years to secure credit card transactions, Visa announced on Monday. A significant proportion of hard disks analysed in an ongoing study contained sensitive data about businesses and individuals. Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up in an effort to stop lottery email scams. Newly organised methods of online criminal activity are threatening to democratise fraud and undermine banks and online traders, according to security experts at this year’s RSA Conference Europe. Brazilian hackers now more technically sophisticated than Russians, "fraud as a service" model emerges. A Turkish hacker known as "Chao" and arrested as part of the FBI operation against underground forum DarkMarket produced his own training videos. You can watch it here. Kaspersky Lab is going to open a regional office in Melbourne to strengthen its business in Oceania.
Consultancy firm, The Leading Edge called Proofpoint to restore its email when a Botnet attack took the company’s internet link down. A new wave of malicious spam relies on requests for delivery confirmations for unsolicited emails.