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While there is no set definition of metadata that telecommunications will be required to retain under legislation due to be introduced in the current sitting of the Australian parliament, the legislation will have a "statutory specification" of metadata, according to Attorney-General George Brandis.

An increase in the spread of malware through mobile storage devices, such as USBs, CDs and DVDs, was recorded in Greece during the first half of 2014, according to data released by Kaspersky Security Network. More than 2,615,000 cases of malware were detected on computers that use Kaspersky Security Network. The company stressed that during the same period in 2013, almost 1,901,000 cases were recorded, putting Greece in 117th place on a global level.

Do Not Track, the privacy standard that's supposed to address one of the biggest issues of the 21st century internet - how you control who can track what you're doing online - isn't in the news. Again. That's no surprise though - despite its importance, Do Not Track hardly ever does anything remarkable or exciting enough to count as actual news.

Speaking to The Financial Times on Sunday, Iosco chairman Greg Medcraft said that cyber-crime has a “huge potential impact on markets” and said that the next major financial downturn could come from cyber-criminals targeting broker dealers, fund managers, listed companies or even stock markets themselves.

According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 62% of users worldwide fear financial fraud on the Internet, 49% of users felt vulnerable while shopping online or making online transactions, and 42% of users would utilize online payment systems more often if they felt they were protected from cyber fraud. In addition, 37% of users report terminating a financial operation in the middle of the process because they were unsure about the...

Security experts have warned site owners that want to add social media share buttons to their web pages that hackers are hiding FlashPack malware in legitimate looking website add-ons. FlashPack is an exploit kit which delivers various Flash exploits including one which targets a Flash vulnerability (CVE-2014-0497) which was patched back in February. It’ll also download the Carberp information-stealing trojan to open a backdoor on the victim’s machine, according to Trend Micro fraud researcher, Joseph...

Blue Coat researchers analyzed more than 660 million unique hostnames requested by 75 million global users over a 90-day period. They found that 71 percent of the hostnames, or 470 million, were “One Day Wonders,” sites that appeared only for a single day.

At Black Hat and Def Con earlier this month, the penetration testing tool makers at Pwnie Express unveiled two new products aimed at extending the company's reach into the world of continuous enterprise security auditing. One, the Pwn Pro, is essentially a souped-up version of Pwnie Express' Pwn Plug line of devices; the other, Pwn Pulse, is a cloud-based software-as-a-service product that provides central control of a fleet of Pwn Pro “sensors.” Combined, the two...

Finance and retail applications are the most susceptible to hacking attacks because of data input by customers, according to research. Research from software testing company CAST revealed that 69% of finance applications and 70% of retail applications have data input validation violations.

Researchers demonstrated a new side channel attack which allow them to steal encryption keys by simply touching a laptop. Yesterday I published a post on an interesting research conducted by a the team of experts which demonstrated an attack exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” allowing threat actor to access the shared memory statistics of an app’s process, today we will discuss of a new potential method for extracting sensitive data from PCs simply...