River Tam - Slashdot User

Submission + - The DARK Web (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:16AM

River Tam writes: Recently I started to use alternative search tools such as Duck, Duck Go and my old old favorite Yahoo. Why? Well I just was wary about all the information that is being collected by Google, and just wanted to see what it was like to revert to another tool.

Submission + - Microsoft fixes Office for Mac 2011 update that killed Outlook (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Thursday May 21, 2015 @10:35PM

River Tam writes: Microsoft has quietly issued a fix for a security update from its May Patch Tuesday for Office for Mac 2011 that killed Outlook for many Apple users.

Submission + - RSA Conference opening signals change in direction (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:40PM

River Tam writes: Loud music, a spectacular video presentation and an auditorium full of info sec professionals. It’s that time of the year — the opening of RSA Conference.
Each year, the opening keynote offers something a little different. This year it was actor Jane Lynch from Glee and Two and Half Men, singing (or perhaps destroying) a cybersec version of the David Bowie classic Changes. And that is the big theme of this year’s conference — change

Submission + - Google Launches Chrome 43, help batten down HTTPS sites (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:24AM

River Tam writes: The next version of Chrome, Chrome 43 new feature promises to take out some of the work website owners — such as news publishers — would have to do if they were to enable HTTPS.

The feature might be helpful for publishers migrating legacy HTTP web content to HTTPS when that old content can’t or is difficult to be modified. The issue crops up when a new HTTPS page includes a resource, like an image, from an HTTP URL. That insecure resource will cause Chrome to flag an “mixed-content warning” in the form of a yellow triangle over the padlock.

Submission + - Five security questions you should be asking about the Apple Watch (cso.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @08:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Since the Apple Watch has sold out in its pre-orders, with shipping dates now out into June for any new orders, it's clearly a device that will see widespread use, and therefore be a target for attack. Is this a potential opportunity for attackers to spoof one device or another?

Submission + - BlackBerry has no fix for FREAK in BES, BB 10 and BBM (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:17PM

River Tam writes: Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco this week rolled out fixes to protect their products against a man-in-the-middle attacker that could force SSL connections onto a weak and easily broken cipher suite. BlackBerry however doesn’t have a patch yet and says it is still working to determine the full impact to its products.

Submission + - Apple nixes FREAK SSL bug iOS 8.2, OS X and Apple TV (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:31PM

River Tam writes: FREAK. Apple users encouraged to install iOS 8.2, the iOS update released by Apple on Monday that adds support in iOS for Apple Watch and a host of important security updates. The bug known as FREAK affected multiple browsers, including Apple’s Safari on iOS and the OS X and apparently Apple TV.

Submission + - Stuxnet, Snowden and Sony: Why we've passed the cyber security tipping point (cso.com.au) 1

Submitted by River Tam on Monday March 09, 2015 @01:00AM

River Tam writes: Heavy-handed pressures from tech-unaware legislators, successful strikes by laterally-thinking hackers, a growing tide of dissent about government intervention and corporate concerns about last year's massive hack of Sony Pictures corporate documents have pushed us past the security tipping point into an environment where cyber-attacks will increasingly become favoured tools of nation states and terrorist groups, a leading security journalist has warned.

Submission + - As real Flash patches go out, fake ones hit thousands of Facebook users (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Monday January 26, 2015 @08:22PM

River Tam writes: On the heels of two real Flash Player security updates being distributed by Adobe Systems this week, hackers are spreading a fake update for the media player via a scam on Facebook that has exposed at least 5,000 users to the threat.

Fake Flash Player update through a three-day Facebook scam beginning Friday. The hackers are targeting the social network’s users by tagging would-be victims in photos that purport to be racy videos.

Submission + - Over 9,000 PCs in Australia infected by TorrentLocker ransomware (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:15PM

River Tam writes: Cybercriminals behind the TorrenLocker malware may have earned as much as $585,000 over several months from 39,000 PC infections worldwide, of which over 9,000 were from Australia. If you're a Windows user in Australia who's had their files encrypted by hackers after visiting a bogus Australia Post website, chances are you were infected by TorrentLocker and may have contributed to the tens of thousands of dollars likely to have come from Australia due to this digital shakedown racket.

Submission + - New Sony films leak online as hunt for hackers turns to North Korea (cso.com.au)

Submitted by River Tam on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:56PM

River Tam writes: Sony Pictures is reportedly exploring if its breach has links to North Korean threats over its movie The Interview. But whoever was behind the attack may have also leaked pre-release versions of new movies from the film studio.

Sony’s latest security breach is shaping up to be a disaster of epic proportions. That is, if details that are emerging online about the extent of the breach are correct.

So far, the only word from Sony is that it is investigating an “IT matter” following reports the film studio was hit by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace (GOP).

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