Information Technology

Enterprise investment in cybersecurity is improving but deployment and maintenance issues are allowing far too many successful attacks against corporate networks, a new report suggests.  On Tuesday, FireEye’s Mandiant released its annual Security Effectiveness Report. Based on enterprise contributions, penetration tests, and the analysis of 100 enterprise-level production environments across 11 industries, the report concludes […] More

The UK government has launched a coronavirus tracing app in the hopes of tracking the spread of COVID-19. Announced on Monday at the government’s daily coronavirus briefing, the “NHS COVID-19 app” has been developed by NHSX, the technology arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).  Here’s everything you need to know. Is the app […] More

Image: FBI German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant today for a hacker working for the Russian military on charges of hacking the German Parliament in the spring of 2015. German newspaper the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who broke the story today, says German authorities are looking for Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 29, from Kursk, Russia. German authorities […] More

Screenshot: Chris Duckett/ZDNet Secretary of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo has batted away concerns that American authorities would be able to access data saved in the COVIDSafe app’s National Data Store under the provisions of the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) via the proposed International Production Orders Bill. Pezzullo told the Senate […] More

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS), as one of its roles, will have oversight of how the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) uses the international production orders (IPO) regime, if legislated. As a result, it focused its submission [PDF] to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) and its inquiry into the […] More

Security researchers say they’ve discovered yet another strain of malware that was specifically built to infect Linux-based servers and smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and then abuse these systems to launch DDoS attacks. Named Kaiji, this new malware was spotted last week by a security researcher named MalwareMustDie and the team at Intezer Labs. […] More

The federal government has introduced the legislation surrounding its coronavirus trace tracking mobile app, COVIDSafe, introducing a tonne of penalties for the collection and misuse of data collected by the initiative. In addition to the protections provided by the Biosecurity Determination, the Privacy Amendment (Public Health Contact Information) Bill 2020 supports the COVIDSafe app, and according […] More

GoDaddy on Tuesday reported [PDF] an October data breach to Californian authorities, stating that an unauthorised individual was able to access SSH accounts used in its hosting environment. “We have no evidence that any files were added or modified on your account,” the company said while omitting evidence that files could have been viewed and […] More