The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) hopes to have struck enough of a balance between security and usability to keep its newest digital authenticator, AUSkey, in use for years to come.
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Data protection flaw in iPhone security could mean trouble for business users — using a four-digit PIN to lock your iPhone doesn’t really help.
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Cloud computing adds security challenges, but also provides opportunities to improve security posture, according to Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft.
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A point-of-sale vendor-led group today issued guidelines for end-to-end encryption that could provide a glimpse into the shape of cardholder data protection.
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The NHS is the country’s worst offender in terms of losing citizens’ personal information, but HM Revenue & Customs is responsible for the single biggest data breach, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said.
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Chief information security officers in Australia and New Zealand have told analyst firm IBRS that managing consumer-grade mobile devices in the enterprise is one of their top security concerns. The preliminary results of 70 plus interviews between senior IT security executives and IBRS analyst James Turner have revealed that managing and securing mobile [...]
The Government Computer News Website (gcn.com) recently carried an article by its senior writer and author of the CyberEye column, Mr. William Jackson, on password management. The article, mystically named ‘Password management’s secret ingredient’, talks about generating ‘secure’ passwords and mentions a few password management tools. The article also [...]
No matter where you fall within the partner ecosystem, these security mistakes can cost your customers and sully your reputation.
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are retaining detailed search engine data for too long and not making it sufficiently anonymous later, in violation of European law. The three companies received letters Wednesday from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which oversees data protection issues in the EU.
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A security researcher has claimed that Apple’s iPhone fails to adequately protect user data from unauthorized access. “People should understand that the iPhone 3GS fails to provide full disk encryption (FDE) which renders useless by how the phone manages the protection of the encryption key and that the authentication model for the [...]