News (10)

  • Wider security community gets AusCERT presentation call

    AusCERT has called for the submission of papers and tutorials from the security community for presentation at its annual conference.

  • Thousands 'trojaned' through net shares: CERT

    CERT/CC, a US based group responsible for alerting the Internet community to security threats, has today warned that an increase in network share-based attacks may be paving the way for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

  • Phishing e-mails exploit recently patched IE vulnerability

    The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) from the University of Queensland, has issued an alert after discovering a number of fraudulent 'phishing' e-mails that lead victims' to Web sites that exploit a newly patched vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

  • Security skills shortage may worsen

    There is a security skills shortage, and "it's going to get a lot worse," delegates at the Gartner Security Summit were told yesterday by Nick Tate, chairman of AusCERT and CIO at the University of Queensland.

  • Sendmail vulnerable to critical flaw...again

    A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world's e-mail messages.

Features and Case Studies (2)

Create an e-mail alert for "cert"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
cert


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured