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December 2011

December IT Brief
Security: Clouds Biggest Challenge?
Reporter IT Brief
Featuring Ty Miller

December 8 SMH
Cloud security evaporates in testing
Reporter: Cynthia Karena
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in BrisbaneTimes, TheAge, WAtoday, Security Management

December 7 SMH
Zuckerberg exposed in privacy flap
Reporter: Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in TheAge, Melbourne Times Weekly, stuff.co.nz, WAtoday, The Canberra Times

November 2011

November 30 ZDNet
Surviving the cloud security minefield
Reporter: Michael Lee
Featuring Ty Miller

November 23 SMH
'Charlatans and scammers': Googler slams security software firms
Reporter: Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller

November NETT
Mobile Banking Security
Reporter: Luke Telford
Featuring Ty Miller

November Information Age - ACS
iAwards 2011 - Australian Companies Pioneer New Technology
Reporter: ACS

November 22 iTWire
Data leakage the top security threat
Reporter: Stephen Withers
Featuring Ty Miller

November 14 iTWire
PCI and the Cloud - are they oil and water?
Reporter: David Heath
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Computerworld, Image & Data Manager

November CRN
Ford dealership decides to make the call
Reporter: Darren Pauli
Featuring Ty Miller

November 11 Sydney Morning Herald
Steam 'truly sorry' as 35 million online game accounts exposed
Reporter: Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in TheAge, Brisbane Times, WAToday

November 10 Sydney Morning Herald
Security breaches the result of 'sloppy testing'
Reporter: Cynthia Karena
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in TheAge

November 2 Australian Reseller News
Enemy at the Digital Gates
Reporter: Patrick Budmar
Featuring Ty Miller

November 2 Brisbane Times
Duqu virus threatens cyber meltdown
Reporter: Lia Timson
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in TheAge

November Australian Women's Health
The New Privacy Predators
Reporters: Katie Cincotta and Kate Ashford
Featuring Ty Miller

October 2011

October 24 Sydney Morning Herald
LG Australia's website hacked
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Stuff.co.nz, The Press, Brisbane Times, SmartOffice, SmartHouse

October 19 Sydney Morning Herald
Super sloppy: First State customers kept in the dark
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in TheAge, BrisbaneTimes, WAToday

October 4 Sydney Morning Herald
'Speechless': HTC Android phones expose users' locations, call history
Reporter: Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in BrisbaneTimes, WAToday, Melbourne Times Weekly, Topnews

October Australian Personal Computer
Cloud storage is getting less nebulous
Reporter: David Braue
Featuring Ty Miller

September 2011

September 13 Sydney Morning Herald
Trade secrets exposed by 'stealthy' email typo attack
Reporter: Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in WAtoday, BrisbaneTimes, TheAge

September 2 Herald Sun
Businessman under attack after his Skype number was hijacked (Clip)
Reporter: Wes Hosking
Featuring Ty Miller

September 1 Computerworld Australia
Playing the Cloud Confidence Game
Reporter: David Braue
Featuring Ty Miller

August 2011

August 19 Rust Report
Who's who of Aussie IT: Companies to Watch
Reporter: Len Rust

August 15 A Current Affair
Cyber Criminals (Clip)
Reporter: Tracy Grimshaw
Featuring Ty Miller

August 10 itnews
Convicted hackers need not apply
Reporter: Darren Pauli
Featuring Ty Miller

August 5 CSO
Pure Hacking's PureWAF managed firewall wins iAward
Reporter: Stilgherrian
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in Computerworld, TechWorld, CIO, Impulse Gamer

August 5 The 2011 iAwards (Australian Information Industry Association)
Australia's top technology innovators and achievers honoured at the 2011 iAwards
Reporter: AIIA Press Release
Featuring Pure Hacking 

JULY 2011

July 30 Sydney Morning Herald
Attack of the cyber insider
Reporter: Chris Johnston
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in The Age (Clip)

July 27 ABC 7.30
'Evil' hacker arrested over alleged web attacks
Reporter: Sarah Dingle
Featuring Ty Miller

July 27 SmartCompany
AFP Hacker Arrest
Reporter: Patrick Stafford
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Sydney Morning Herald (Clip), Brisbane Times, WA Today, The Age (Clip), The Australian (Clip), The Press NZ

July 25 SC Magazine
Stock shell codes reaching use-by date
Reporter: Darren Pauli
Featuring Ty Miller

July 18 Sydney Morning Herald
Paternity and drug test details leak online in privacy breach
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in Brisbane Times, The Age, WA Today

July 11 Impulse Gamer
Pure Hacking wins iAward for its PureWAF security application
Reporter: Andrew Bistak
Featuring Rob McAdam

July 11 The 2011 iAwards (Australian Information Industry Association)
iAwards platforms prominent Australian technology innovators
Reporter: AIIA Press Release
Featuring Pure Hacking

July 5 Australian IT
St George banks on mobile apps (media clipping)
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring Ty Miller

JUNE 2011

June 27 ABC News
LulzSec cyber-hackers call it quits
Reporter: Timothy McDonald
Featuring Rob McAdam

June 27 Computerworld
Are we really living in a post-LulzSec world?
Reporter: Hamish Barwick
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in CSO

June 24 Rust Report
A snapshot of employment market movements this week
Pure Hacking expands security consulting team
Reporter: Len Rust
Featuring Rob McAdam

June 23 Computer Daily News
People, people
Reporter: David Frith

June 23 Herald Sun
Teen hacker's arrest just the tip of the iceberg
Reporter: Greg Thorn
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in Adelaide Now, Adelaide Advertiser

June 22 Computerworld
Pure Hacking develops security practice for the enterprise
Reporter: Hamish Barwick
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in CIO, CSO

June 22 iTWire
Pure Hacking beefs up security team
Reporter: Peter Dinham
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in AustralianIT

June 21 The Dominion Post
Attack kills off nearly 5000 Aussie websites
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in stuff.co.nz

June 21 Sydney Morning Herald

4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring Rob McAdam
Also reported in the Leader, stuff.co.nz

June 20 Computerworld Australia
Distribute.IT slammed in wake of website attack
Reporter: Hamish Barwick
Featuring Ty Miller

June 17 ABC News
Online storage leaves companies open to hackers
Reporter: Timothy McDonald
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Radio National Canberra, ABC 666 Canberra, Yahoo 7 News Queensland

June 17 Sydney Morning Herald
Thousands of Aussie websites exposed in hack attack
Reporter: Asher Moses and Ben Grubb
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in BrisbaneTimes, stuff.co.nz, The Press, The Dominion Post, Queensland Country Life, NZChinese, Aohua

June 11 Weekend Australian
Theft leaves top executives exposed
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Australian IT, One News Page

June 10 Channel 7 Sunrise
Outsmarting the Smartphone
Reporter: David Koch
Featuring Ty Miller

June 9 Reuters
Citi says hackers access bank card data
Reporters: Maria Aspan, Narayanan Somasundaram
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in InterAksyon, itnews, Business Spectator, Mail Online, Financial Feed, MumbaiMirror, EquityJungle, New Brunswick Business Journal

June 4 Courier Mail
Governments at home and abroad struggling to bring a growing cyber security crisis under control
Reporter: Alex Dickinson
Featuring Ty Miller

MAY 2011

May 26 iTWire
Mac Skype hack exposed
Reporter: David Heath
Featuring Ty Miller

May issue Australian Banking and Finance
Smartphone too Easy to Hack
Featuring: Ty Miller speaking at Cards and Payments Australasia

May 24: Digiknow
Macs no longer safe from malware
Reporter: Emma Baker
Featuring Ty Miller

May 23 Sydney Morning Herald
Mac malware alert: Apple devices 'easier to infect than Windows'?
Reporter: Asher Moses
Featuring: Ty Miller
Also reported in ChannelNews, Brisbane Times, Dandenong Weekly, Margaret River Mail, TransContinental Port Augusta, Stock Journal, Stuff.co.nz
May 25 ChannelNews
Apple Admits To Mac Porn Pop Up Malware
Reporter: Oonagh Reidy
Featuring Ty Miller
Also reported in Impulse Gamer

May 23 ZDNet "Patch Monday" Podcast
Stuxnet, routing hacks and a seized iPad
Reporter: Stilgherian
Featuring: Ty Miller

May 19 The Australian
Facebook images open to access
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring: An interview with Ty Miller

May 18 Today Tonight
Smartphone hacking
Featuring: interview with Ty Miller

May 17 PC World
Bugs and Fixes: Adobe gives Users Privacy Controls; Skype Patches Extremely Dangerous Vulnerability
Reporting: James Mulroy
Featuring: Pure Hacking

May 17: PC Authority
Aussie discovers "danger" Mac flaw in Skype
Reporting: Stewart Mitchell
Featuring: Gordon Maddern

May 13 ChannelNews
Facebook Leaks: You’ve Not Heard The Last Of It
Reporter: Oonagh Reidy
Featuring: Ty Miller
Also reported on SmartOffice, Smart House,

May 12 itnews
Trust under scrutiny as ethical hacking goes legit
Reporter: Lia Timson
Featuring Ty Miller
May 12:  SC Magazine, CRN & itnews
Analysis: Why you should chew through VM bibles
Secrets of VM security: Read the manuals
Reporter: Darren Pauli
Featuring:  Ty Miller

May 10 SC Magazine
Skype asks mac users to patch exploit
Reporter: Dan Kaplan
Featuing: Gordon Maddern
Also reported on eWeek, CIO, IT Business Edge, The Inquirer

May 6:  The Register
Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines
Reporter: Dan Goodin
Sourced from post by Gordon Maddern on Pure Hacking blog
Also reported on:
CNet, ZDnet, Security News Daily, ARNet, Yahoo, Top News NZ, TG Daily,
Apple Insider, Tehran Times, PC World, PC Mag, Tech Leash, Digital Trends.
Social Barrel,  Online Social Media, Technology Gadgets & Curiosities, Mashable,
HydraPinion, Examiner,

May 4  Financial Standard Online
Super funds at risk of cyber crime
Reporter: Alison Bevege
Featuring: Interview with Ty Miller

May 3 The Australian
No evidence Playstation details on sale
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring: Robert McAdam & Ty Miller

May 3 The Australian
Veda Advantage & Suncorp tackle identify theft
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring: Robert McAdam

May 2 Channel 10 News
Comments on Sony Playstation Hack and need for disclosure laws
Featuring: Robert McAdam & Ty Miller

APRIL 2011

April issue Investment Magazine
Storms gather in the Cloud
Reporter: Philippa Yelland
Featuring Ty Miller

April 30: Courier Mail Brisbane
Easy to use programs available online let anyone hack website bank details
Reporter: Alex Dickinson
Featuring: Ty Miller
Also reported on news.com.au, Optus Zoo

April 28  3AW & 5AA news
Sony Playstation hack just the tip of the iceberg
Featuring Ty Miller

April 15 Channel 9
Protecting your smartphone against hackers
Reporter: Jessica Rich
Featuring: Ty Miller

April 12 InfoSecurity magazine
Researcher defeats 2 factor iphone authentication
Featuring Ty Miller

April issue Risk Magazine
Locking Down IT
Reporter: Craig Donaldson

April 10 Canberra Times
Mobile Data Security Doubts
Reporter: Frances Stewart
Featuring: Ty Miller

April 7 The Australian IT section
'Big bullseye' aimed at Google Android, says Symantec
Reporter: Fran Foo
Featuring Ty Miller

April 7 Sydney Morning Herald
Dell Australia customer details stolen in major global data breach
Reporter Asher Moses
Featuring Robert McAdam

April 6 Aviation Business
Cyber threats should be a major focus for aviation
Reporter: Doug Nancarrow
Featuring: Ty Miller

April 4 Courier Mail
Airlines warned remote control terror possible
Reporter: Alex Dickinson
Featuing interview with Ty Miller
Also reported in Hobart Mercury, Adelaide Advertiser, Herald Sun & news.com.au

April 4 ZDNet
How to capture iPhone SMS tokens: video
Reporter: Darren Pauli
Featuring video and interview with Ty Miller

April 4 Voice & Data online
Planes crashing into planes: the reality of cybercrime?
Reporter: Andrew Collins
Featuring Ty Miller

April 4 Daily India
Remote controlled 'Die Hard 2 airport attack' might soon become real aviation threat: Expert
Featuring Ty Miller

April 1 ComputerWorld
Patch smartphones to avoid compromises: SMS authentication can be bypassed
Reporter: Hamish Barwick
Featuring Ty Miller

April 1 TG Daily
Cyberattacks endanger airlines more than terrorism, say experts
Reporter: Emma Woolcott
Featuring Ty Miller

Ty Miller's  presentation at AVSEC2011 also reported on Impulse Gamer, ComputerWorld, TechWorld, Secure Avionics, CSO, itNews, Secure Computing

April 1 Image & Data Manager
RSA hack puts security on notice
Featuring Ty Miller

MARCH 2011

March 29 ITNews
Bank security experts play up social risks
Reporter: Liz Tay
Featuring: Ty Miller

March 25 ComputerWorld
Hackers steal portion TripAdvisor email list
Reporter: Hamish Barwick
Featuring: Ty Miller

March 24 CFO
Australia's Pure Hacking CTO to run Shellcode Lab Training at Black Hat Security Conference 2011
Featuring: Ty Miller
Also reported on Impulse Gamer, CSO, CIO, ITWire

FEBRUARY 2011

Feb 25 Government News
The Dangers of Getting Social at Work
Reporter: Katrina Ganin
Featuring: Ty Miller