Traditional security products — which employ signature-based blacklisting technology — are no longer effective because of a massive increase in malware, according to the CEO of McAfee, Dave De Walt.
The Federal government has launched a new security alert service for small business and home users, aimed at helping Australians protect themselves from cyberattack.
The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer?
Queensland police are warning of a rapidly growing type of fraud that uses Russian brides and dating Web sites to con victims into becoming money launderers and drug mules.
A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.
In an unknown location, a handful of Australia's best known companies and government agencies are undertaking secret tests in a mock cyberwar, as the country's infrastructure comes under attack in a simulated online war named Cyber Storm II.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Security experts warn of a new wave of crime with the drastic rise in personalised phishing campaigns, with social networking at the heart of the problem.
Gartner predicts that all enterprises will be using Instant Messenger (IM) by 2010, which should send alarm bells ringing as IM attacks have increased by more than 700 percent in the past year.
An insidious piece of software classified by most security vendors as a trojan has been updated to include not just the tapping of voice calls and SMS, but also the bugging of a mobile user's e-mail and tracking of a user's location.
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Responding to criticism levelled at its software developers by Australia's lead computer security authority, Microsoft Australia said it would attempt to make its products more "resilient" to virus attacks.
Online fraudsters are getting smarter and the current round of "phishing scams" may just be the start, according Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) head Alastair MacGibbon.
Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US.
At this year's AusCERT conference, whitelists were a hot topic — but is anyone going to use them?
Rootkits, which alter the kernel of an operating system and allow malicious code to hide from security software, seem to have stumped the security industry.
It looks like AusCERT and GovCERT have worked out their issues and are no longer stepping on each others' toes.
Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.
Top ranking executives are rarely heard promoting a rival's product, which is why it seemed odd that Microsoft would offer an iPod as a prize.
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