Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: PeopleIT security consultancy, Pure Hacking, has expanded its consulting capabilities, adding to its Melbourne headquarters staff with two new appointments as it looks to further grow its Australian business.
The rogue attackers who are suspected of hacking into the parliamentary computers of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and others could have already covered their traces, a security expert said this week, as news of the apparent break-in sent shock waves through Australia's security community.
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Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketGlobal security firm, Symantec, has invested a million dollars in its newly expanded Australian security operations centre in Sydney which it says will support the rapid growth of its managed security services group.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: SecurityWith smaller retailers being targeted by cybercriminals because of their high EFTPOS and credit card transactions - and generally lower levels of Internet security – there’s been a warning from one global security firm to Australian SMEs not to rely too heavily on their IT suppliers to deliver the necessary levels of security.
Employees of companies and organisations need educating on IT security issues and best practices, according to one leading security firm, which says a “staggering” number of IT professionals recently surveyed do not trust their end users to make sound IT security decisions.
I updated my Ubuntu 10.04 system yesterday, and because I have /etc under git control it tells me this file changed: /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.security
As it says "security", and I am not a java specialist, a little red flag went up.
Two lines changed, with the before/after shown below.
I'm running Pure-FTPD on centos5 with cPanel installed.
When somebody upload a symlink file called 1.txt and it's a symlink to /partition fpr example, He can browse all /partition contents from this symlink through Pure-FTPD and it's a dangerous security problem.
How can i solve this security issue and disable symlinks browing on FTP .?
NBN Co is encouraging manufacturers of security alarms to consider becoming specialist resellers of the National Broadband Network, potentially harnessing the network to deliver cloud based monitoring of security video.