Tuesday 11thFebruary is Safety Internet Day with this year’s theme on ‘Let’s create a better internet’ focusing on our children and being safe online. Helping positive digital citizenship across Australian communities, Coordinated by Insafe, the European network for internet safety, the event is supported in Australia by Cybersmart. In the ... Read More

Many people have invested in high-end GPUs to perform Bitcoin mining.  But even with Bitcoins trading above US$1000, it's no longer cost-effective or plausible to find a new one.  So other than gaming, what can all this GPU power be directed at?  Password cracking is an obvious choice. Almost exactly ... Read More

From 12 March 2014, the Federal Government’s new privacy laws will introduce a new set of Australian Privacy Principles. The reforms introduce new enforcement powers and remedies for investigations that the Commissioner commences on their own initiative. The Commissioner will be able to make a determination, accept written undertakings that ... Read More

Practical tips Through our many risk assessments of cloud services there a few practical tips which you may find useful in selecting the right cloud services.         I.        Do the risk assessment early. On a number of occasions a cloud service has advanced to pilot stage prior to a risk ... Read More

Cloud Security Fundamentals Numerous surveys have found CIOs citing “security” as their main concern in adopting cloud computing technology. The Cloud is seen as an environment that is outside of the CIOs control, and from the perspective of accountability and compliance this seems to represent a risk. Security and control ... Read More