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Security experts look to 'whitelisting' future
News Speaking at the AusCERT 2008 security conference, Graham Ingram, general manager of AusCert (Australian Computer Emergency Response Team), said today's blacklisting approach is simply not working. We've got to do something," said AusCERT's Ingram.
[May 28, 2008, 10:01]
Australians face devious phishing scam
News AusCERT senior security analyst Jamie Gillespie said the use of URL obfuscation and exploit to install a program went beyond previous phishing scam moves to fool users into entering data into a fake Web site.
[April 5, 2004, 12:15]
Staying a step ahead of malware
Leader The latest seismic upheaval is the revelation that the most popular brands of antivirus packages have an 80 percent miss rate, if we're to believe Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT).
[July 26, 2006, 16:55]
Government concerned about MySpooler worm
News NISCC, which was set up to minimise risk to the UK's critical national infrastructure from electronic attacks, posted the warning on its Web site after its Australian counterpart AusCERT alerted users to the worm.
[January 28, 2005, 17:25]
Wi-Fi open to jamming attack
News According to an advisory from AusCert, the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team at the University of Queensland, the vulnerability does not allow an attacker to intercept or modify the data being transferred, but it could threaten the...
[May 13, 2004, 18:00]
Whitelisting: The new blacklisting?
News Security industry figures at the AusCERT 2008 conference discuss whether whitelisting offers a solution to the problem of malware prevention.
[May 28, 2008, 15:59]
Australians detail cybersecurity strategy
News Australian attorney general Robert McClelland launched an in-depth national cybersecurity strategy on Monday, supported by a new Computer Emergency Response Team to rival the existing AusCert. The strategy sets down war plans for Australian spy and...
[November 24, 2009, 9:47]
Snort fails to win approval
News IDS has failed to impress the market, Martin Roesch told delegates at the AusCERT computer security conference in Queensland. The creator of Snort, the open-source network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an...
[May 24, 2004, 14:25]
Security guru backs writing down passwords
News Speaking on the opening day of the AusCERT conference on Australia's Gold Coast, Jesper Johansson, senior programme manager for security policy at Microsoft, said the security industry had been giving out the wrong advice to users by telling them...
[May 23, 2005, 15:20]
Security benefits of XP SP2 touted again
News Head of the anti-malware product team at Microsoft, Jason Garms, said at the AusCERT conference in Queensland on Tuesday the improvement was revealed by internal analysis of the performance of XP SP 2.
[May 25, 2005, 10:55]
Stealth virus warning sounded again
News Speaking at the AusCERT conference on Australia's Gold Coast on Tuesday, Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Labs, said that the influence of organised crime on the malware industry has led to a change of tactics, echoing comments made in March...
[May 25, 2005, 11:15]
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees
News On the second day of the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, the director of Microsoft's internal security, Mark Estberg, told ZDNet Australia that a security feature in Vista called User Access Control (UAC) could mean less employees have full...
[May 30, 2006, 10:15]
Fake Microsoft email spreads new worm
News According to Jamie Gillespie, security analyst with AusCERT, the virus is a traditional mass-mailer. A new mass-mailing worm has begun spreading through Australia, and despite its lack of social smarts, is still managing to replicate rapidly.
[May 19, 2003, 9:04]
E-Terrorism: An online war?
News As soon as someone uses the term e-terrorism they begin to lose credibility with me," says Graham Ingram, general manager for Internet security watch-dog AusCERT. How serious is the danger of Internet-based terrorism?
[November 29, 2002, 9:44]
Sendmail breached by new flaw
News Security researcher Matthew McGlashan, who is based at AusCERT at the University of Queensland, says that an exploit to the latest vulnerability isn't known to be circulating. A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous...
[March 31, 2003, 8:30]
Users warned on Yahoo! Messenger attacks
News Robert Mead, coordination centre manager for AusCERT, the organisation's Australian arm, said there is a danger that "people are pretty much executing (malicious) code on users' machines. Yahoo! Messenger users have been alerted to a number of...
[June 6, 2002, 15:06]
Life on the antivirus frontline
News In May he travelled to the Gold Coast to speak at the AusCERT conference, and he has since been to San Diego and New York. "This is the upside of 70-hour weeks," said Dr Eugene Dozortsev, as we shared a cheese platter and a stunning chocolate...
[July 1, 2002, 10:28]
Virus with SOCKS appeal targets corporate PCs
News At the AusCERT conference in Australia's Gold Coast earlier this year, Kaspersky said that virus authors are no longer trying to infect as many computers as possible with the same virus. A new variant of the Bagle virus incorporates a SOCKS proxy...
[August 8, 2005, 14:40]
Explorer flaw creates 'critical' worm-hole
News Jamie Gillespie, a security analyst with AusCERT, a clearinghouse for vulnerability information, says it may be too early to go on full alert. Although there is no proof that the vulnerability foretells the execution of arbitrary code, which would...
[June 26, 2003, 9:07]
IE bug crashes browsers
News Although many DoS vulnerabilities such as this can lead to the discovery of more serious flaws after further research, AusCERT security researcher Jamie Gillespie said it's unlikely in this case. A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the...
[April 17, 2003, 8:59]
