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  • Cloud security creates new challenges

    Security consultant Heinz Zerbes writes that cloud security creates different challenges, and offers advice on how to meet them. 

  • Vendors slow to act on bug reports

    Two Australian organisations - a bank and a security consultancy - say vendors are not responsive when they report newly-found bugs. 

  • Cloud providers and data sovereignty issues

    Australian cloud provider Ninefold warn that understanding who has legal access to company and personal private data is not as simple as checking a box and selecting the 'in-country' option. 

  • When Apple iOS HTTPS certificate failures are silent

    If you're in any doubt whether last week's iOS update is worthwhile, take heed of this warning. 

  • Hotmail makes sign-in changes, can't please everyone

    The Hotmail sign-in page is in the news this week, with subtle changes to browser auto-complete behaviour to provide wider browser compatibility. 

  • Top strategies to mitigate targeted cyber intrusions

    Claiming that over 70% of successful intrusions could have been prevented by implementing the top 4 recommendations, the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has updated its list of strategies to mitigate targeted cyber intrusions. 

  • Law Firm to use smart technology to connect employees

    Minter Ellison, one of the largest full-service law firms in the Asia Pacific region, has embarked on a significant technology project to improve business video-based collaboration and knowledge sharing across its more than 290 partners and 1,000 leg... 

  • Managing iPads in enterprise networks

    These days users expect to be able to use their iPads inside the business and as thousands of software vendors release applications for the iOS platform which provide data mobility and usability benefits to employees, the prospect of the iPad as a bu... 

  • Australian company M5 develop hardware for secure networks

    One Australian company is working to bring the benefits of anywhere/anytime/anydevice networking to Government Secure and Classified environments while maintaining network security compliance. 

  • MobileMe signalled for shutdown, iCloud unveiled at Apple WWDC 2011

    This week the registered users of Apple's MobileMe service received notification that MobileMe was being shut down. In it's place? Prepare for iCloud. And prepare for another data leakage channel from your network. 

  • RSA 2011: The wrap - UPDATED

    Want to know what's going down at the RSA Conference for 2011? We've linked to all the big news in one easy-to-use story. And we've updated the story to take in action from days two and three. 

  • Atlassian advises of eight Confluence vulnerabilities

    Australian software developer Atlassian has announced eight vulnerabilities in its enterprise Wiki product, Confluence, and says a new version of the application corrects them all. 

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  • application blacklisting

    Application blacklisting, sometimes just referred to as blacklisting, is a network administration practice used to prevent the execution of undesirable programs.  Such programs include not only those known to contain security threats or vulnerabiliti... 

  • application blacklisting

    Application blacklisting, sometimes just referred to as blacklisting, is a network administration practice used to prevent the execution of undesirable programs.  Such programs include not only those known to contain security threats or vulnerabiliti... 

  • Cloud providers and data sovereignty issues

    Australian cloud provider Ninefold warn that understanding who has legal access to company and personal private data is not as simple as checking a box and selecting the 'in-country' option. 

  • When Apple iOS HTTPS certificate failures are silent

    If you're in any doubt whether last week's iOS update is worthwhile, take heed of this warning. 

  • Hotmail makes sign-in changes, can't please everyone

    The Hotmail sign-in page is in the news this week, with subtle changes to browser auto-complete behaviour to provide wider browser compatibility. 

  • Top strategies to mitigate targeted cyber intrusions

    Claiming that over 70% of successful intrusions could have been prevented by implementing the top 4 recommendations, the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has updated its list of strategies to mitigate targeted cyber intrusions. 

  • Law Firm to use smart technology to connect employees

    Minter Ellison, one of the largest full-service law firms in the Asia Pacific region, has embarked on a significant technology project to improve business video-based collaboration and knowledge sharing across its more than 290 partners and 1,000 leg... 

  • Managing iPads in enterprise networks

    These days users expect to be able to use their iPads inside the business and as thousands of software vendors release applications for the iOS platform which provide data mobility and usability benefits to employees, the prospect of the iPad as a bu... 

  • Australian company M5 develop hardware for secure networks

    One Australian company is working to bring the benefits of anywhere/anytime/anydevice networking to Government Secure and Classified environments while maintaining network security compliance. 

  • MobileMe signalled for shutdown, iCloud unveiled at Apple WWDC 2011

    This week the registered users of Apple's MobileMe service received notification that MobileMe was being shut down. In it's place? Prepare for iCloud. And prepare for another data leakage channel from your network. 

  • RSA 2011: The wrap - UPDATED

    Want to know what's going down at the RSA Conference for 2011? We've linked to all the big news in one easy-to-use story. And we've updated the story to take in action from days two and three. 

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