Senetas on Deciphering Information Security Blog

By Stuart Bell

For the past decade Australia has enjoyed a sustained period of economic prosperity off the back of its very traditional roots in mining and agriculture coupled with a unique financial services structure.  Read More

By Stuart Bell

Well time goes on and so do reports of increasingly sophisticated breaches in data security. The potential consequences escalate and the ease with which an attack can be planned and executed is more pervasive and personal.  Read More

By Stuart Bell

At the recent Cyber Security for Government 2011 conference held at Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney, where ideas were freely exchanged between presenters and attendees, the general theme from the floor was surprisingly honest: security practitioners felt overwhelmed by customer expectations.  Read More

By John DuBois

Issues in advance of the annual global security conference, RSA San Francisco, the RSA2011 cybercrime trends report makes chilling reading for business as the new threats target their employees.

Cybercrime shows no signs of diminishing, rather the report says increasingly sophisticated new threats once targeting consumers now have enterprise employees in the cross-hairs.  Read More

The recent report by the Kokoda foundation (National Broadband Network at risk from spies and hackers, The Australian, 4th January 2011) is a wakeup call to the builder's of the National Broadband Network, NBN co said Senetas CTO Julian Fay.   Read More

By John DuBois

My attention was drawn recently to a statement by the US company that suffered a massive data breach in 2008, affecting 100 million customer records.  Heartland Payment Systems in the US has offered to pay $US 60 million to issuers of affected Visa-branded credit cards.  Read More

By Julian Fay

LONDON  - Dissecting the underground economy has almost become a sport at the RSA Conference with numerous speakers attempting to explain the complex cybercrime ecosystem described as being “larger than Microsoft”.  Read More

By Julian Fay

London - The RSA Conference was told today that russian gangs were now guaranteeing to extract the symmetric encryption keys that secure EFTPOS devices, also known as swipe card readers, within 3 months for $US250,000.    Read More

By Julian Fay

London - A former US Presiddential cyber security adviser today called for an international standard for data breach notification laws.  Read More

By Julian Fay

LONDON – Once the hot acronym was B2B (business to business), but talk at this annual security conference abounds with a new acronym, C2C (criminal to criminal) as the industry comes to terms with increasing online cybercrime.  Read More