Australia and New Zealand’s banking and finance sector may have been the worst hit by security attacks so far this year, but it’s the most security conscious segment of the market, according to Computer Associates’ June quaterly trends research.
Instead of a note and a gun, high-tech bank robbers use a program and an e-mail. Security firms are working overtime to ward off the mounting number of hack attacks.
The Australian Law Reform Commission yesterday released a report recommending Australia introduce data breach disclosure laws but Senator John Faulkner said that bridge would not be crossed by government at least for the next 18 months.
Security start-up Veracode updated its SecurityReview tool this week to allow companies to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process, a class of security holes often missed by existing scanners.
A standardised test on knowledge of security programming may soon be on the way for software developers.
Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.
ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
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Banking firms in the City of London have conducted a trial of their back-up communications systems as part of an exercise to test the ability of the financial sector to cope following a major disaster such as a terrorist attack.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
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