39% of Australians Victims of Cyber Crime?
June 10, 2008

Another survey and some more frightening statistics as reported in CW and affiliated sites. Luckily the company that undertook the survey has the solution; “Protection against all Internet threats“. (Hey, their words, not mine!)

Does anyone have a link to the survey? 39% sounds pretty high but I have no context from the articles.

Secondly, AVG seems to have joined Symantec with the magic solution. Amazing that we allow companies to get away with such advertising! Related post on mis-leading and false advertising.

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Posted in: Bad Stuff, Dumb Security, WTF, cyber crime, news


The monkeynet project kicks off…..
June 6, 2008

Speculation has been rife and the rumour mill going crazy but I can announce that the monkeynet project has now kicked off. Visit and explore the site for more information and to stay abreast of the latest news on the monkeynet project. (Find the secret area with information on the “secret” projects). Join the initiative and become part of the monkeynet project.

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Stay Smart Online – Latest Australian Government Initiative…

I wonder what the old teams and program developers at NOIE/AGIMO etc think about the latest re-branding of government’s effort to demonstrate care about individual’s and businesses use of IT. (As reported here). I remember the old NOIE site. It was pretty good; rich full of information and a great source of help and knowledge. It was a shame relatively very few people were aware of it.

The latest incarnation with a few added “features” comes at a cost of $1.2M (just on the contract alone to AusCERT as reported by the Australian Newspaper). Will be interesting to see how it all goes…….

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Posted in: Risk Management, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, cyber crime, news


Cyber-Terrorism: I love this quote from Geekonomics
June 4, 2008

From David Rice’s book “Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software”:

“The sad irony is a ‘cyber-terrorist attack’ would be largely indistinguishable from routine software failure. Was it Al Qaeda or another hiccup in the software we are using?”

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Data Classification – Effective? Has it ever been or really worked?
June 2, 2008

I was talking to a colleague to the other day and we started on “data classification”. Yeah, must have been an interesting conversation to be sitting in on. :-)

Neither of us could recall ever seeing what could be termed a successful implementation, if that is the right word for it. How would you judge one anyway? That’s a big question in itself.

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Cringe….you're not using that "Twitter" thing are you?

It’s either that response or something along the lines of; “What the hell is that all about?”, “I don’t understand it!”, “Looks like crap!”. I was of the same opinions when Wade introduced me to it a while ago. (Per chance, Wade’s latest post is on that exact topic). I signed up out of curiosity and followed what was going on.

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