AUSCERT
The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) is a not-for-profit security group that provides advice to the Australian public, team members, and the education sector. AusCERT monitors and evaluates global computer network threats and vulnerabilities, publishing security bulletins and recommended prevention and mitigation strategies.
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AusCERT 2013 Day 1
AusCERT has returned to the Gold Coast for another year, and ZDNet was there to bring you all the highlights.
AusCERT 2013 day 1: Speed, fraud, and interruptions
What do security specialist HD Moore and the Queensland Police have in common? They both feature in this lighthearted round-up of day 1 at AusCERT 2013.
Online businesses need citizens' arrest powers: Alperovitch
Former McAfee Threat Research vice-president Dmitri Alperovitch has called for greater powers for private companies, saying that they should be allowed to make citizens' arrests and limited retaliatory action against hackers.
When the CISO shouldn't blow the whistle on vulnerabilities
Highlighting the fact that there are security vulnerabilities in your organisation sounds like common sense, but there is such a thing as doing it too fast, according to Foxtel CISO Kevin Shaw.
AusCERT 2013: This time it's personal
As another AusCERT conference kicked off in the Gold Coast today, Munir Kotadia explains why he is disillusioned with security in all its forms.
Be the internet police, not an internet dictator: Google
Users could be saved from a lot of pain if information security professionals acted like dictators and forced them to patch, update and take precautions, but Google's chief technology advocate has called for a less totalitarian scheme.
Cybercrime: it's just too easy
AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram has rejected Eugene Kaspersky's view that the current golden age of cybercrime will be over in a few years — because the crimes are just too easy to commit.
Android's biggest security flaws
Android is widely accepted as being iOS' greatest rival, but, according to Dell SecureWorks security researcher Timothy Vidas, it has a host of issues that have made it a target for malware authors.
War talk dominates AusCERT 2012
The last 12 months have seen a clear shift in the way information security is discussed. It used to be all about cybercrime. Now, there's talk of war.
National Botnet Network coming: Earthwave
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, and, according to Earthwave CEO Carlos Minassian, the situation will get worse when the National Broadband Network (NBN) rolls out.
NSA, FBI split on comms intercepts
The differing missions of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI have led to a split over telecommunications intercept policies — which Americans call "wiretaps" — according to computer scientist Susan Landau.
Automation key for time-poor security boffins
The way in which IT departments have been approaching information security is flawed, according to Juniper Networks senior director and security architect Christopher Hoff, who said that security departments need to adopt automation to free up their time to think outside the box.
Lightning round!
What's an IPO and why is Facebook doing it? How's this year's AusCERT? Where's our slice of Raspberry Pi? And where are Josh and Michael?
Cybercrime golden age over in two years?
The golden age of cybercrime could come to a close as soon as 2014, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky — as long as the world changes how it coordinates on creating laws to govern the internet.
How government does BYOD
Allowing users to bring their own devices (BYOD) needn't be difficult, even for the government, according to the senior manager for the ACT Government's IT security, Peter Major.