Security: News

Victoria-based managed security services provider, IPSec, has expanded its reach along the eastern seaboard into the Sydney market.

Disk-based data protection software vendor, FalconStor Software, has been named winner of the ‘backup and recovery solution’ category of the Network World Asia (NWA) Information Management Awards.

Organisations are projected to lose $US35 million in the next 24 months as a result of a failure to control trust in the face of new and evolving threats, according to US based software company, Venafi.

Feedly today switched on its own RSS API and service, divorcing itself from the soon-to-be-dead Google Reader.

Mounting backlash against National Security Agency spying practices is now coming from sources as varied as security expert Bruce Schneier, former Reagan-era budget director David Stockman and high-level representatives of European countries.

SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.

A telephone records surveillance program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency raises serious privacy concerns and should be reined in, some U.S. senators said Wednesday.

Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later versions and for coming up with new ideas to defend against exploits.

LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned.

Latest research by Symantec has found that top tier SMBs spend roughly seven per cent less on IT than the bottom tier.

IT security distributor, M.Tech, has added US-based data security vendor, Vormetric, to its product line-up.

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday.

The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems administrators to misuse privileged access to agency systems, NSA officials told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Tuesday.

U.S. law enforcement agencies have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the U.S. and other countries with the help of controversial surveillance efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency, government officials said Tuesday.

The source code for the Carberp banking Trojan program is being offered for sale on the underground market at a very affordable price, which could result in additional Carberp-based financial malware being developed in the future, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB.

It's a lucky day for ARN's two winners of the State of the IT Channel survey related competition.

Former Symantec Australia channel director, Jeffrey Arndt, has filed a lawsuit against Symantec Australia alleging unfair dismissal, according to documents filed with the Federal Circuit Court of Australia at Sydney.

According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Targeting Scams report, $93 million was reported lost in Australia last year.

Security vendor, Sophos, has unveiled its Complete MSP Security partner program designed to align the business and technical needs of managed service providers (MSPs) to bring complete security services to market.

Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers.