Photos: AusCERT 2012 day one
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The week in security: AusCERT debates the threat of cyber war holocaust
CSO Magazine
Microsoft's Swedish operation was taking a novel approach, with a new educational campaign encouraging spammers to retrain as direct marketers. Telcos also need to do some educating as they work to regain customers' trust, some executives warned, ...
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Sophos named Vendor of the Year at SC Magazine Awards
PRWire
The top award was announced at a gala dinner, held at the 11 th annual AusCERT Information Security Conference on the Gold Coast, and the awards recognise outstanding work by professionals, organisations and products in the security industry.
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Automation key for time-poor security boffins
ZDNet Australia
Speaking to ZDNet Australia, and presenting at AusCERT 2012 earlier this week, Hoff said that security experts tend to only set up reactive plans on how they think systems might break, without taking into account the unpredictable ways in which complex ...
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Lightning round!
ZDNet Australia (blog)
How's this year's AusCERT? Where's our slice of Raspberry Pi? And where are Josh and Michael? In order to post a comment, you need to be registered. (Sign In or register below) Terms of Service - As a ZDNet registrant, and by using this service, ...
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AusCERT 2012: Kaspersky says cyber-attacks could “take us back to the pre ...
CSO Magazine
SCADA is so vulnerable, Kaspersky told the AusCERT audience: “It's not possible to protect. Stuxnet told us that modern systems are not protected at all. SCADA could be very easy victims – the result of an attack could be like Stuxnet but everywhere.
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AusCERT 2012: contemplating the end
ZDNet Australia
AusCERT 2012 is drawing to a close and, despite some technical glitches, it's been a great show. In order to post a comment, you need to be registered. (Sign In or register below) Terms of Service - As a ZDNet registrant, and by using this service, ...
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AusCERT 2012: Facebook automates human trafficking ops
CSO Magazine
The problem for US law enforcement is that Mexican drug cartels have been quicker than them to embrace social media, such as Facebook but also blogs, for intelligence gathering, Barker told the AusCERT conference in Queensland.
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AusCERT 2012: State-supported attacks undermine old 'net trust models
CSO Magazine
Hallam-Barker told AusCERT delegates, it's clear that state interest in the Internet is growing – and that includes the incidence of state-based attacks of various kinds. Since June 2010's Stuxnet, he said, attacks that appear to emanate from states ...
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AusCERT 2012: Flash drive problem — even deleted data can leak
CSO Magazine
Securing data on Flash media is harder than most people believe, Peter Jamieson of UL subsidiary Witham Laboratories, told AusCERT delegates. “The only way to be absolutely certain that data can't be recovered from a USB key is to hit it with a hammer…
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AusCERT 2012: Security and standards, not “air gaps”, needed to protect SCADA ...
CSO Magazine
“The whole concept of trying to protect SCADA systems with air gaps is a myth,” the SCADA expert Byres told AusCERT delegates. People implementing air gaps do so in the belief that “the bad things will never happen to the control systems” – but there ...
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AusCERT 2012: Star Wars and lasers feature at AusCERT awards
Computerworld Australia
With storm troopers and Darth Vader roaming the room, AusCERT delegates could be forgiven for thinking they had wandered on to a movie set. The awards, which began under starry skies at the Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, are designed to ...
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AusCERT 2012: Four questions enterprises should ask Cloud providers
CIO Magazine
Speaking at AusCERT, Tagle told delegates that while Cloud services offer a number of benefits such as reduced costs, faster deployment time and increased efficiency, there were areas that needed clarification, such as proper data segregation, ...
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AusCERT 2012: Fear of ridicule causing online scams to go unreported
Computerworld Australia
Speaking at AusCERT on the Gold Coast, Hay told delegates that people viewed scam victims who sent money overseas to fraudsters or to scammers on internet dating websites as “stupid or greedy” and this was incorrect. “People get excited by a business ...
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AusCERT 2012: Lack of security aiding medical fraud, identity theft
Computerworld Australia
Thompson, speaking at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast, told delegates that Medicare cards do not currently have unique identifiers such as a photo, signature or PIN meaning that potentially anyone could present the card to a ...
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AusCERT 2012: US Army Cyber Command has never seen a cyber attack
CSO Magazine
“With all due respect to all my friends out here doing this, we've never seen a cyber attack because I'm looking at a very specific definition of what a cyber attack is,” Clark on Tuesday told the AusCERT conference in Queensland.
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AusCERT 2012: Can Android ever be safe?
CSO Magazine
At the very best, Android security is so difficult and runs into so many interactions that it may not be solvable, according to Tim Vidas, who looked at the question at AusCERT. Vidas' presentation won't have been welcome news to any partisan of ...
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#AusCERT's cybercop shop
SC Magazine Australia
By Darren Pauli on May 17, 2012 9:35 AM Before many of AusCERT's delegates arrive on the Gold Coast this year, around 40 of Australia's chief electronic crimes police will gather to thrash out better ways to fight crime. The closed-door workshop was ...
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AusCERT 2012: Australian quantum crypto firm plots NASA test deployment
CSO Magazine
The company's John Leisoboer told AusCERT delegates yesterday that the pilot network will test its capabilities over a 500 Km link from NASA Ames to the JPL in Pasadena. The QuintessenceLabs QKD system uses two characteristics of quantum physics to ...
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Inside #AusCERT's Cybercrime Symposium
SC Magazine Australia
The AusCERT Cybercrime Symposium, held on the Sunday before the annual AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, is one attempt to encourage these connections. At this year's event, members of anti-fraud teams from Australia's major banks, ...
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AusCERT 2012: tanks and toilets
ZDNet Australia
Day one of the AusCERT conference was full of funny quotes and big military bling. Check out the action with ZDNet Australia. In order to post a comment, you need to be registered. (Sign In or register below) Terms of Service - As a ZDNet registrant, ...
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AusCERT 2012 Day 1 : Is security growing up at last?
CSO Magazine
“Too much law, too little tech” is one way of viewing today's output from AusCERT 2012 – except for two things. “Too much law, too little tech” is one way of viewing today's output from AusCERT 2012 – except for two things.
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AusCERT 2012 kicks off
ZDNet Australia
The 11th annual AusCERT information security conference kicked off this morning, with the theme "Security on the move". Delegates from all over the world travelled to the Gold Coast to hear from top security experts, including Mikko Hypponen (chief ...
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AusCERT 2012: Virtualization security needs improvements
Computerworld Australia
Improved virtualization security protection and network training are needed if Australian enterprises are to avoid potential attacks via the virtual machine (VM) layer in the future, delegates at the AusCERT 2012 conference on the Gold Coast have heard ...
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Auscert 2012
ZDNet Australia
It's that time again: AusCERT 2012 is upon us, where we continue the history of cybersecurity. And Mac users? You, too, should tune in. You're not immune. The 11th annual AusCERT information security conference kicked off this morning, with the theme ...
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Windows 7 to 8 upgrade to cost US$14.99
ZDNet Australia
AusCERT 2012 kicks off: photos: The 11th annual AusCERT information security conference kicked off this morning,... http://t.co/VbN1nNVw Exploring: AusCERT 2012 kicks off: photos: The 11th annual AusCERT information security conference...
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Moving cloud to the next level
ZDNet Australia
So this is how much respect @zdnetaustralia has for me... http://t.co/eHQbWAQp #auscert ping @chrisgatford Dell is licking its wounds after hiring a conference speaker known for sexist humour. It didn't end well: http://t.co/rhZHYVtt ^LH Well I think ...
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Stuxnet ≠ cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officer
Register
... operations” are becoming an increasing focus of both government and private research, legal frameworks are failing to keep pace, the US Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark has told the AusCERT security conference in Queensland.
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