February 25th, 2010
There has never been anything in the history of humankind that comes close to the ability of the Internet to reach to almost every part of the globe. But, as with all new technologies, it comes at a cost—many costs, in fact.
The first Google index in 1998 captured 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. In 2009 the Google Index hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
It has been argued that we pay for the benefits of the Internet less in terms of money and more in terms of the currencies of our age: time, energy, and privacy.
With all that information out there, the trick is knowing what you are looking for and where to find it. This workshop has been designed specifically for Law Enforcement and Intelligence Practitioners to provide a better understanding of the tools and techniques of Open Source Research.
Speaker: Shannon Armstrong
Date: Friday 12 March, 2010
Venue: ECU Mt Lawley Campus, Building 17 Room 203
Time: 2.00pm – 5.30pm
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Tags: Research, secau, security, seminar, SIG
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February 5th, 2010
Over 30 years ago the “holy grail of hackers was the compromise and utilisation of PABX systems to enable free phone calls for voice and of course data at that stage. In response to this phenomenon PABX systems became increasingly secure and less able to be compromised. Now some 30 years on we now have home ADSL accounts with VoIP devices used for telephony, we appear to have learned little. There has been an attendant increase in network scanning activity that looks for available or VoIP systems. This talk will look at some of the tools and techniques being used by attackers to compromise these systems. The talk will also explore motivations for the attacks.
Speaker: Professor Craig Valli
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
Time: 5.30 – 6.30pm
Venue: ECU Mt Lawley Campus, Building 17 Room 203
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Tags: secau, seminar, special interest group, VOIP
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August 5th, 2009
E-health and the national electronic medical record is on our doorstep. Your General Practitioner is the cornerstone to its success. Who will have access to your records? Do you want your record shared? Would you like to have control over their distribution? Before consideration of such questions, perhaps your first question should ask, are they safe? Medical Practices are more vulnerable to security breaches than other organisations. They are small business entities who are mainly unaware of the dangers and are similarly ill equipped to manage their security effectively. There is a lack of security awareness and expertise, which is further complicated by an inherent culture of trust. Medical practices raise complex issues of a more socio-technical nature in information security. It is the security profession’s responsibility to address these issues. These socio-technical issues may by the undoing of medical practice and e-health in Australia unless a holistic governance.
The Security of Medical Information: “Boobs, Breaches and Backdoor Blunders”
Tuesday 18th August, 12-30 to 1.30
Joondalup Campus – Edith Cowan University
Building 1, Room 1.2107
Please RSVP to d.cook@ecu.edu.au
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July 18th, 2009
researchers from secau presented and chaired the digital forensics stream at the WORLDCOMP 2009 Conference this week in Las Vegas. There was a total of 7 papers presented at the conference.
The topics were SCADA security and forensics, Game console forensics, firewire forensics, Bittorrent forensics, European hard disk study and medical information security.
The papers will be available from the publications sections of the website shortly.
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July 8th, 2009
The Australian and New Zealand forensics science Society (ANZFSS) are proud to have a presentation by Sgt Clayton Bennie on Operation Zircon the 2001 Hancock Lewis car bombing on 21st July, 2009 at UWAs Old Zoology Lecture Theatre cnr Park and Crawley Avenue, Crawley.
The presentation will deal with the reconstruction of the complex crime scene left in the wake of the blast. Please refer to be attached PDF for further details or the website http://www.anzfsswa.org.au
Operation Zircon Talk Details PDF
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July 8th, 2009
secau opened the CISL (Critical Infrastructure Security Laboratory) earlier in the year to investigate the security issues surrounding critical infrastructures. The laboratory activity for the next 6 months will be focussed around SCADA security with a particular emphasis on intrusion detection. The research will be using open source tools such as SNORT, WireShark and other to develop solutions and also test efficacy of these. For more information contact David Cook d.cook@ecu.edu.au or Phone +61-8-9370-6702
Tags: CISL, Research
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July 7th, 2009
This is the first call to submit full academic papers for the 2009 SECAU Security Congress. Submitted papers must be in English, should be typed in a single column, single-spaced format, and must adhere to the maximum word limit of 3500 words. For detailed information regarding paper submission please refer to the main conference website found at http://conferences.secau.org/ All submitted papers will be double blind peer reviewed and high quality papers will be considered for publication in selected journals.
Full papers for Review should be submitted by the 30th September.
“Managing the Threat”
The Security Congress incorporates a continuum of new ideas and research ranging from digital to physical security and from highly technological solutions to human factors using scientific and socially embedded frameworks. The Congress aims to draw together competing and complementing areas of security as part of a holistic engagement with the wider security discourse.
The SECAU Congress will incorporate the following conferences from the 1st – 3rd December at the Kings Perth Hotel:
10th Australian Information Warfare Conference
7th Australian Digital Forensics Conference
7th Australian Information Security Management Conference
2nd Australian Security & Intelligence Conference
Don’t hesitate to contact the Conference Coordinator David Cook on 9370 6702 or email d.cook@ecu.edu.au
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