AusCERT 2011: Identity theft no joke for Welsh comedian
CIO Australia
Recounting the tale at AusCERT 2011 on the Gold Coast, Arron said the scale of the incident hit home when he and his wife applied for a mortgage on a house in London only to receive a letter from their bank saying he owed outstanding debts. ...
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AusCERT 2011: Top five security threats of 2010
CIO Magazine
At the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, Brown outlined findings from the security firm's global security report, describing five major trends from the local region. Rather than taking a whole world perspective on security breaches, Brown said that ...
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AusCERT 2011: Government co-operation key to preventing Stuxnet attacks
CIO Magazine
A universal security system must be created and adopted if security threats like Stuxnet are to be eliminated, the AusCERT 2011 conference has heard. Speaking at the Gold Coast, local security expert, Ron Southworth, said while threats in the security ...
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AusCERT still in business, says Graham Ingram
The Australian
THE nation's independent computer emergency response team, AusCERT, is working with the federal government's CERT Australia to streamline operations and provide complementary services. AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram says "background discussions ...
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AusCERT kicks off 10th conference
ZDNet Australia
The tenth annual Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) conference takes place in Queensland's Gold Coast this week. The online gaming system has been offline since late April and although the company warned last week that it would ...
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AusCERT 2011: Telstra outlines security consolidation
Computerworld Australia
Speaking at the 2011 AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, Neal said having a large number of staff across a variety of departments handling security was becoming problematic for the vendor, which decided to re-skill staff members. ...
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AusCERT 2011: Second Stuxnet worm on the horizon
CIO Magazine
That's the view of US-based Byres Security consultant, Eric Byres, who told delegates at AusCERT 2011 that the chances were high that the son of Stuxnet was coming soon. The original worm managed to infect machinery in an Iranian nuclear plant in June ...
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Energy provider overhauls smart grid security
SC Magazine
“We're reassessing the entire security design,” Appleby told an audience at the AusCERT 2011 conference at the Gold Coast today. That review will examine about 10 smart meter trial sites each with up to 5000 nodes. It will examine physical risk, ...
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AusCERT 2011: Eugene Kaspersky calls for Internet Interpol
Computerworld Australia
Speaking at AusCERT 2011, the Moscow-based Kaspersky said the last five years had proved to be the "Golden Age" of cyber crime with the criminal activity now ranked second only to drug trafficking as the most significant criminal activity. ...
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AusCERT 2011: Mobile banking malware on the rise
CIO Australia
In the keynote session of the second day at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, Klein said the financial and mobile malware began to increase during 2006, and has only become more prevalent in recent years. “The financial malware for desktop ...
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AusCERT 2011: Police lack tools to combat cybercrime
CIO Magazine
Speaking at the AusCERT 2011 conference on the Gold Coast, Brian Hay said cybercrime is the biggest challenge that the policing community is facing because of its position in relation to the sector. “Police are not at the cold face of the problem; ...
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AusCERT 2011: firms ignore ID theft risk
ZDNet Australia
Businesses don't take the risk of identity theft seriously enough, according to Welsh identity theft victim, activist and comedian Bennett Arron. In order to post a comment, you need to be registered. (Sign In or register below) A user from Perth ...
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AusCERT 2011: Plan for disaster recovery
Computerworld Australia
Recent natural disasters such as the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi mean now is the time to look at ways of avoiding ICT and staff issues in the event of a crisis, Brisbane City Council IT experts argue. According to the council's ICT risk, ...
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AusCERT 2011, booth babes and all: pics
ZDNet Australia
The 10th annual Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) conference started today. The exhibition floor seemed unusually roomy, and regular attendees agreed that the conference seemed much quieter than usual. In order to post a comment, ...
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AusCERT 2011: How the US Secret Service solved the TJX case
Computerworld Australia
Peter Gannon of the US Secret Service spoke at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast today, where he said the three year investigation into the hacking of TJX, Dave & Busters, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, ...
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AusCERT 2011: Routing systems 'based on gossip'
CIO Magazine
Speaking at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, Geoff Huston said even with the implementation of IPV6, routers are not secure. “How much of today's routing system is lies?...even with IPV6, this is still a problem,” he said. ...
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Identity theft not taken seriously: victim
The Australian
Today, it has become a much more familiar scenario, but back then it was unheard of, as he told the AusCERT 2011 conference on the Gold Coast this week. Mr Arron and his new wife had found a perfect first home in London, and were ready to buy. ...
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Black hats and whitegoods
ZDNet Australia
I spent most of yesterday in an AusCERT conference stream covering SCADA industrial control systems, resilient enterprise networks, smart meters, hardware security and the like. The discussion was held under the Chatham House rule, so I can't attribute ...
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Imperva Wins 'Product or Service of the Year' at AUSCERT 2011
CFO World
Imperva, the leader in data security, today confirmed that it had won the 'Product or Service of the Year' category for its SecureSphere Web Application Firewall at the annual AUSCERT Conference. “We are delighted to be the 2011 winner of the SC ...
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Working with Julian Assange - AusCERT 2011
CIO Magazine
ABC journalist Andrew Fowler has given insights into his interactions with WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast. Author of the book The Most Dangerous Man in the World, Fowler said working with Assange for the ...
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AusCERT Facebook photo hack may be a test case
SC Magazine
An incident at the AusCERT conference where Facebook photos were taken from a user profile without authorisation and published may be a test case for Commonwealth and state computer crime laws, according to Queensland Police. ...
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Credit card vulnerability still alive and well - AusCERT 2011
CIO Magazine
Global banks are yet to solve a vulnerability in the Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV) integrated circuit standard first rolled out in 2003, allowing hackers to place Trojan devices on point of sale hardware to harvest user and credit card information ...
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AusCERT 2011: Eric Byres demonstrates SCADA protection
SC Magazine
By Darren Pauli on May 18, 2011 Tofino Industrial Security's chief technology officer Eric Byres has demonstrated to SC Magazine how the company's technology can protect against a worm attack on an industrial SCADA system. Byres demonstrated how a ...
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AusCERT 2011: Magic and music light up AusCERT awards
Computerworld Australia
Magic performances and laughter set the tone for the 10th annual AusCERT security awards dinner. The awards, which began poolside at the Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, are designed to recognise Australian professionals who work at the frontline ...
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AusCERT 2011: NASA not immune to cyber attack
CIO Magazine
“It's good for us because we can handle [a variety] of cyber cases that are going on," he told attendees of the AusCERT 2011 conference on the Gold Coast this week. One such incident was the take-down of US-based rogue ISP McColo in 2008 in an attempt ...
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Police Slammed Over Facebook Hacking Farce
SmartHouse
... 19/05/2011 Legal advocates and academics have attacked the actions of Queensland Police in arresting Fairfax IT journalist Ben Grubb over his report on a security expert's hacking of private photos on Facebook at this week's AusCert conference. ...
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Winners at the AusCERT 2011 awards night
Search Security
Each year at the AusCERT conference a number of awards are given to individuals and companies who have significantly contributed to the information security industry in areas such as community service, innovation, education, liaison, law enforcement, ...
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Tax office outlines penetration testing strategy - AusCERT 2011
Computerworld Australia
Branch director, Len Kleinman, told delegates of the AusCERT 2011 conference on the Gold Coast this week that the unit's biggest tasks was convincing its clients - the wider government department - that of its need to exist. Kleinman said the office ...
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AusCERT 2011: QPS' Brian Hay speaks to SC
SC Magazine
By Darren Pauli on May 18, 2011 Queensland Police Service detective superintendent Brian Hay has branded Australia as "predominately a victim country" in the world of cybercrime. He told SC Magazine that "tens of thousands" of people sent millions of ...
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AusCERT day 2: Android the next Windows 95?
ZDNet Australia
AusCERT's second day started with mobile security and ended with a gala dinner. More wine, anyone? In order to post a comment, you need to be registered. (Sign In or register below) 오늘 쓸 시간이 없는데.. RT @ZDNet: SAP is Building its Mobile App ...
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You're nicked! And the Twitterverse came alive
Sydney Morning Herald
I was at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast when I received a call from Detective Senior Constable Errol Coultis. It soon became clear he wanted to question me over a story I had written about a security expert's demonstration of ...
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Is Lifting Facebook Photos Like Stealing a TV?
PCWorld
Grubb was reporting the findings of security researcher Christian Heinrich, who demo'd his hack attack at the AusCERT security conference. Using essentially a brute force attack on external servers employed by Facebook to deliver media, ...
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AusCERT arrest and the fibre-gasm
ZDNet Australia
What really went down at AusCERT 2011, why are you still getting ripped off for software and are there really only seven customers on the Armidale NBN? This week's Technolatte is freshly ground and ready to go into your "World's Best Hacker" mug. ...
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Kaspersky wants Interpol for the web
Register
By Natalie Apostolou in Australia • Get more from this author The world needs an Internet Interpol, as well as enforceable online identities and an “Internet passport”, Eugene Kaspersky has told the AusCERT 2011 conference this week. ...
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Smartphones: the perfect bugging device
ZDNet Australia
Graham Ingram, the general manager of AusCERT, backs this up. "The genie is out of the bottle. The hardware is there, the software is there, the capability is there ... these guys will turn it around quickly, now. They know what to do, as soon as the ...
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