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• Boardroom blame game after cyber attacks, finds survey

  ​Company execs and their IT department both think the other is responsible in the event of a cyber attack, research has revealed.

• Curtin Uni IT team pulls itself together

  Last year, Western Australia's largest university identified a shadow IT problem caused by a lack of trust between the IT department and business units. Richard Addiscott director of IT planning, governance and security explains how he filled the 'trust chasm'.

• ​The 6 ‘usual suspects’ of cybercrime

  IT security firm, BAE Systems, has profiled six types of cybercriminals that it says represent the biggest threats to Australian organisations in the lead up to the government’s cyber security review.

• MIT launches three-pronged effort to thwart cyber attacks

  MIT is attacking cybersecurity from three angles: technical, regulatory and managerial through three programs and in partnership with major corporations.

• International law enforcement operation disrupts Shylock banking malware

  Police from eight countries together with several private security companies disrupted the online infrastructure used by cybercriminals to control computers infected with a malware program called Shylock.

• Lack of abuse detection allows cloud computing instances to be used like botnets, study says

  Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from Australian security consultancy firm Stratsec.

• BAE Systems cuts 1,300 jobs, including IT

  Defence company BAE Systems has announced 1,307 job losses in the UK, and confirmed that some will be IT roles.

• Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework

  The Trusted Computing Group Monday announced a working group aimed at publishing an open standards framework for cloud computing security that could serve as a blueprint for service providers, their customers and vendors building security products.