Governments have had to target themselves with phishing attacks in order to highlight weak points in their security and protect national secrets from espionage, according to a report published this week by Sans.
Shortly after the 9/11 bombings, Microsoft hired Scott Charney, a federal prosecutor for the US justice Department, to head up its Trustworthy Computing division. At AusCERT 2008, ZDNet.com.au caught up with Charney to hear his thoughts on how those events changed the security landscape and what he thinks about the current state of IT security.
In an unknown location, a handful of Australia's best known companies and government agencies are undertaking secret tests in a mock cyberwar, as the country's infrastructure comes under attack in a simulated online war named Cyber Storm II.
Governments from all around the globe are engaged in a virtual war where the weapons are hackers and trojans and the prizes for winning a battle include corporate secrets and disruption of the enemies IT infrastructure.
Security experts and privacy advocates unanimously agree that ID cards will not protect Australia from terrorist attacks, despite Attorney-General Philip Ruddock saying the 'key reason' for an Australian ID card would be 'national security'.
Air travellers leaving the United Kingdom on Thursday faced the strictest security measures in years: iPods, mobile phones, laptops, and even books and magazines were no longer permitted as carry-on items.
Organisations are abusing the word "cyberterrorism" by using it to fuel their budgets, a security guru has claimed.
The future of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) is uncertain after the government implemented plans to create a national computer emergency readiness team (GovCERT) to deal with cyberterrorism attacks.
The publisher of two pro-jihad Web sites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, US investigators said on Friday.
The online portion of the federal government's anti-terrorism campaign has suffered an embarrassing hiccup, with the new national security Web site vulnerable to low-level cross-site scripting security attacks.
A virus hidden in an email purporting to warn of planned terrorist attacks is spreading in Malaysia.
Web users don't necessarily care if the government removes public information from the Net in the name of national security, according to a new study.
A forthcoming government database will compile information from all federal agencies and the private sector on people deemed possible terrorist threats, President Bush said Tuesday evening.
Famed author, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, discusses the perilous, often ironic relationships between technology, acts of terror and the survival of a species.
Cyber Storm II, the international simulation of a coordinated attack on global cyber infrastructure, starts this week.
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