Cyber-attacks more likely than water crises: WEF
Cyber-attacks have outrated nearly every other type of threat in a risk assessment published by the World Economic Forum, reiterating the importance of proactive security measures over the next 10 years.
View ArticleBiometrics, password managers strengthen identity defence: Verizon Business
Increased use of biometric security and integrated password managers will become essential as users face increasing pressure from spear phishers and other identity thieves who are increasingly running...
View ArticleAnalyses reveal 2013's most conspicuous phishing giveaways
Global volumes of phishing emails dropped significantly in 2013 compared with 2012 – but that's only because today's phishing attempts are smaller and better-targeted, according to security vendors...
View ArticleBusiness as usual in A/NZ after McAfee rebranding, Intel promises
Intel's decision to rebrand its McAfee security division as Intel Security won't have any direct impact on the company's Australia or New Zealand operations, its local managing director has confirmed.
View ArticleAndroid, 4G mobiles leading infection surge: Alcatel-Lucent
Mobiles on 4G networks comprise the lion's share of the more than 11.6 million mobile devices infected with malware at any given time, with the rate of mobile infection soaring ahead of infections of...
View ArticleMobiles, human error hitting business security posture: CompTIA
Human error remains the biggest moderate concern for IT administrators but is losing ground to malware, hacking, cloud computing, and social engineering on the security-threat leaderboard, recent...
View ArticleNearly 7% of ANZ PCs face XP-related security exposure: Trend Micro
Companies in Australia and New Zealand are well ahead of world pace in moving away from Windows XP – which is widely expected to become a security nightmare once Microsoft discontinues updates for the...
View ArticleDevOps: The right tools, the right teams
Just as accepted definitions of what DevOps entails have morphed and grown over the years, so too have the toolsets and management approaches employed to build and manage a DevOps culture within the...
View ArticleDealing with enterprise storage in the zettabyte era
The annual World Backup Day, which came and went on March 31 without much fanfare, is designed as a reminder for good data hygiene. Yet for companies where backup is not only good hygiene but crucial...
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