An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country.
Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.
Researchers from security firm Sophos have traced the route of a phishing attack that targeted Australian banking customers -- the fraudsters used numerous compromised servers in Korea, the United States and Malaysia. And unlike traditional viruses, malware and phishing attacks are coming armed with the capability to adjust to the level of a user's defence.
The misdirection of security budgets due to a lack of understanding of the problems facing organisations must be addressed by ICT practitioners in Australia, and elsewhere.
As banks and Web services require more personal data, many users see it as a painful choice: Risk exposing your information to hackers or lose out on some excellent opportunities.
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Verification gadgets range from tokens to mobile-phone-based systems, but cost keeps them from catching on.
Businesses need to remain one step ahead of the hackers and virus writers by ensuring they know more about the holes in their networks than the cyber-criminals, according to one expert.
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