News

• Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk

  Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nation's supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next.

• CIOs to ramp up IT security in 2012: Telsyte

  CIOs will increase their security spending in 2012 following the series of hack attacks that occurred in 2011, according to new research by analyst firm Telsyte.

• Full visibility into high-performance nets: Demand 100% packet capture

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Privacy Commissioner opens investigation into Fairfax site hack

  The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has launched an investigation into the recent hacking of Fairfax microsite, Herald Education. Fairfax’s Young Writer was also hacked.

• Turnbull's card details exposed by hackers

  Millionaire MP Malcolm Turnbull and billionaire businessman David Smorgon have had their credit card details published on the internet by hackers.

• Top security incidents of 2011

  Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author's employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors.

• Faulty software leaks DNA clients' details

  Faulty software has been blamed for a glitch which published the private details of about 800 clients of a DNA testing company on the internet.

• Report: Yahoo, Tor, Mozilla, WordPress also hit by DigiNotar hack

  Besides the fraudulent security certificates Dutch authority DigiNotar issued for Google.com, more were made for Yahoo.com, Mozilla.org, torproject.org, wordpress.org and an Iranian blogging platform, Baladin, according to a Dutch report.

• Online plans not a security breach: DFAT

  The online publication of detailed floor plans for a new Australian embassy in Jakarta is not a security breach, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says.

• WikiLeaks blames Guardian for breach

  WikiLeaks says its massive archive of unredacted US State Department cables had been exposed in a security breach which it blames on its one-time partner, Britain's Guardian newspaper.

• Hacker group's cyber war on US police

  A hacker group says it's "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspects accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.

• 1

  NBN provider one of many cyber breaches

  Police have flagged more arrests over one of Australia's biggest online hacking attacks, which they say could escalate to companies overseas.

• LulzSec hack timeline: Doing it for the lulz

  Fresh from their latest hack, Computerworld Australia brings you a timeline of LulzSec's major scalps

• Hackers target Murdoch-owned paper

  A group of internet hackers claims to have tampered with the website of Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper.

• LulzSec harvests Aussie emails, passwords

  Fresh from attacking the CIA's CIO.gov website with a denial of service (DOS) attack, hacker group LulzSec has struck again with a leaked list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, including some harvested from Australian organisations.