Security

Approximately one third of Indigenous Australians that were targeted by scammers went on to lose money, a figure that more than doubles the amount of non-Indigenous consumers.

iiNet will have to hand over customer information as a result of legal action taken by DBC and Voltage Pictures, and they’ve decided to offer pro-bono legal services to support alleged infringers.

The Abbott Government is to provide telecommunication companies and internet service providers with $131 million in order to help cover the cost of storing customer metadata over the next two years.

Here are 5 key measures every small business should take to ensure that their data stored in the cloud is secured against leakage or attacks.

What started out as an experimental technology has quickly grown into its own industry with a large variety of providers each offering their services and products to a growing customer base.

The infrastructure that holds the internet provides access to about 3 Billion users. So it’s absurd that, when it comes to website hits, billions of humans are beaten by another, larger, community.

While many focus on utilising a bundle of security solutions in hope of finding a ‘silver bullet’ to fix its security woes, many forget the basics.

The perception often exists that the biggest threat to an organisation is external, however, it’s almost always internal inadvertent causes that are related to an external targeted attack that pose the greatest problems

In Australia, fraud costs business and government a mind-bending $5.8 billion each year, making fraud responsible for one-third of the nation’s overall crime costs.

A data breach can result in millions of dollars in losses, it is theerefore critical for small business owners to understand how to protect their valuable assets from information security threats.

If you’re a business owner or manager it’s likely the flux of high-profile intrusions over the last few years has you feeling a tad nervous. And rightly so…

As much as $1 billion is expected to have been stolen in what is being called “the most highly sophisticated criminal attack” ever seen.