Security

Screenshot: Chris Duckett/ZDNet Rachel Noble, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), has fessed up to the worst kept secret in Australian cybersecurity circles, that it was indeed the ACSC that had two speakers dumped from CyberCon earlier this month. “I made that decision,” Noble told Senate Estimates on ...

Image: Avast Ever since it bought Piriform in July 2017, the CCleaner software has brought only headaches to Czech cybersecurity firm Avast. First, Chinese hackers breached Piriform’s servers even before the Avast acquisition, inserting malware into official releases; and leaving the Czech antivirus maker to deal with the PR fallout ...

Google told ZDNet today that it plans to roll out an update “in the coming months” to address an issue in the Pixel 4’s Face Unlock mechanism. The issue was discovered last week by a BBC reporter testing the soon-to-be-launched Google Pixel 4 smartphone. The phone included a new facial ...

Blockchain: it could be ten years before businesses start reaping the benefits of the technology ZDNet’s Daphne Leprince-Ringuet says that after much hype, analysts say that blockchain technology is still a long way from wide scale deployment – and is currently too immature to deliver on its promises. Read more: ...

The US Air Force has quietly replaced the infamous floppy disks it was using to manage the country’s nuclear arsenal with what sources described as a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution.” The switch reportedly took place in June this year, according to defense news site C4ISRNET, citing Lt. Col. ...

Image: Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung Electronics has acknowledged a security flaw in its Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 devices where the fingerprint reader can be bypassed by using silicon screen protectors, and has promised a software update to fix the problem. A British owner of a Galaxy S10 told The Sun that ...

The United Kingdom government has backed away from plans to introduce age verification to access adult consent that were first flagged in April. The rules would have forced sites that monetise pornography to introduce proof of age checks — such as the submission of credit card details, or scanned copies of ...

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Australian bosses have far more confidence in the cybersecurity of their organisations than their own cyberdefenders, according to newly-released research from Unisys. “What the study found is pretty much a disconnect and lack of communication between the two very important roles of chief information security officer (CISO) ...

Pitney Bowes has confirmed it has fallen victim to a malware attack that encrypted information on some of its systems and disrupted customer access to its services. The company’s mailing system products and online accounting reports were affected by the incident. Specifically, customers cannot refill postage or upload transactions on ...

Software bugs and misinterpretations of industry standards are at the heart of most cases of incorrectly-issued SSL certificates — accounting for 42% of all incidents –, a recent academic study has discovered. The research, authored by a team from the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington, looked ...