Optus has invested $8 million to create a new Advanced Security Operations Centre, which it hopes will position the telecommunications giant as a leading cyber security player. The announcement from Optus follows the unveiling of an $8 million partnership between the telecommunications giant and La Trobe University last week, which will see the organisations develop…
The ASX and the corporate regulator have launched a new initiative to improve the cyber security defences of Australia’s biggest companies, urging the exchange’s top 100 firms to have a Cyber Health Check. The program forms part of the federal government’s cyber security strategy that was launched earlier this year and it has been developed…
Web giant tries to fill the protection gap created when malicious sites clean up their act just long enough to ditch the Safe Browsing warning. Google has added a new classification to its Safe Browsing initiative to better protect users from malicious websites trying to game the system. Google’s Safe Browsing warns users when they…
At around 7:35AM Monday morning the Brisbane Data Centre suffered an outage as their primary transit provider (Vocus) suffered from issues with the networking equipment providing connectivity to the facility. BGP bungle in Brisbane: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/vocus-network-outage-downs-internet-voice-services-432164 Brisbane Hosting & Website Hosting’s products and services include Website Hosting, Domain Names, DNS Services, Website Development, Website Design, Website…
Cyber safety business Family Zone, which allows parents to monitor and restrict their children’s internet browsing, will pursue an initial public offering to raise up to $5.5 million to ramp up its sales and marketing. The company, which has developed a cloud-based control system that works across multiple internet-connected devices, will be valued at about…
In order to evolve and succeed in the mobile-centric future, companies will require revolutionary increases in the speed, capacity and connectivity of mobile devices – and they’re looking to 5G networks to provide it. That is according to a new report from Forbes Insights, in association with Huawei, “The Mobile Industrial Revolution: Anticipating the Impact…
Even Mark Zuckerberg has a crap password. What hope have we mere mortals? Chances are, you’re using the same password for multiple online accounts — or maybe recycling two or three that are easy to remember. You’re only human, and even superhumans are known to commit grave password crimes. This week Facebook chief executive Mark…
Although many would already be well aware that today’s spam can be far more dangerous that just a dodgy Viagra pill and could infect your computer, ESET has issued a new warning. Spam, says the Internet security firm, is “not simply emails, but messages received on instant messaging services, social networks and SMS”, and they…
A FEW lucky Aussies already have National Broadband at their fingertips. The rest of us are waiting. Waiting for downloads, waiting to stream ABC iView, waiting for our Skype connections to stop being so jerky. This election the question to ask when you’re voting is this: Will we get “fibre” all the way to our…
If you have accounts online with any of the following sites, I’d recommend you jump onto this site and see if your email address has been breached. Recent breaches inlude Snapchat and Linkedin, the top 10 breaches include: Top 10 breaches MySpace logo 359,420,698 MySpace accounts LinkedIn logo 164,611,595 LinkedIn accounts Adobe logo 152,445,165 Adobe…
