Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis has welcomed today’s tabling of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Report to Parliament for 2012-13. “This year is the 30th anniversary of ASIO’s first unclassified Report to Parliament in 1982-1983 and provides significant insight into ASIO’s vital mission to protect Australia, its people and interests from... Read more
Seeking Comments on the Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework
America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air... Read more
Cyber cops probe the deep web
In the past few weeks, the glare of news-media scrutiny has shone on the murky, mysterious world of the darknet, that online territory estimated to be many times bigger than the ordinary internet most of us access daily from the comfort of our computers and smartphones using web browsers... Read more
US proposes corporate cybersecurity standards
What 3000 people think A US bureau has unveiled a draft of voluntary standards that companies can adopt to boost cybersecurity — part of an attempt to protect critical industries without setting restrictive and costly regulations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory agency that is... Read more
35,000 sites including Fortune 1000 hacked via nasty vBulletin hole
Some 35,000 websites including those run by fortune 1000 companies that use proprietary internet message board vBulletin have been hacked via a dangerous flaw in the software. Security experts criticised the company for not adequately informing customers. Many of the affected sites had malware foisted on their sites which... Read more
