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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.
Spammed malware activity boomed over the month of July, according to Google. Hackers are using SQL injection attacks to infect websites with updates on the Olympics. In its largest security update in 18 months, Microsoft on Tuesday delivered 11 patches to resolve 26 vulnerabilities in its operating system and related components. Recent arrests in the hacking of nine U.S. retailers and Countrywide Home Loans is just the tip of the iceberg of what's to come, according to experts in the security industry. The final report outlining the amendments to Australia’s Privacy Act will be released on August 11, possbily ending almost two years of speculation surrounding the inclusion of Australia’s inaugural mandatory data breach disclosure laws. More than 3,300 laptops are lost or go missing at the eight largest airports in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) each week, according to new research commissioned by Dell. Security researchers should stop publishing vulnerabilities in the traditional way because cyber-criminals are using the code to generate zero-day exploits at record speeds, says a recent report. Endpoint security stalwart Sophos has bid to acquire Germany-based encryption provider Utimaco Software for more than US$340 million. An analysis of 100 security tests carried out over the past five years shows that application level weaknesses are up by 50 percent. The first attacks to on the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability have been reported. Security experts have warned that there is at least one vulnerability in the network layer of every corporate Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) have developed a false sense of security and remain naïve about the threats, according to McAfee. As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. Cybercrime organisations are today being run by bosses parading as business entrepreneurs, complete with criminal staff. Companies are leaving their unified communications (UC) systems wide open to hackers, newly published research claims. Secure Computing is warning of a new Trojan in the wild that is infecting multi-media files on a victim’s hard disk.
A DNS design flaw, which could have allowed remote attackers to silently hijack web sessions, prompted Tuesday's release of an unprecedented multivendor patch. All too often, people are victims of identity theft. Less common, but perhaps more dangerous, is the growing trend of medical identity fraud. The growing volume of unstructured data stored by companies is creating a security hole, according to new research from the Ponemon Institute.