Daniel Emerson (July 24th) in th Sydney Morning Herald writes an interesting little story about the lack of Mac compatibility of its etax software.
See: SMH: Mac attack on Taxmans bad fo
Interesting that the ATO doesn’t know how many of its customers use Macs since that sort of information is collected in web site log files. My company attempts to meet an open standards approach for general compatibility with all platforms and performs tests on all platforms that account for greater than 1% of our web traffic.
Here’s some good news. Alfresco (open source enterprise level CMS) are offering a 5 day training course in Sydney.
http://www.alfresco.com/services/training/sessions/2008/08/20080818-2190-tetralogyx/
Revised OWASP Top TenOWASP is the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) which defines standards and reports on vulnerabilities. Its latest list of the top 10 potential security vulnerabilities is an interesting read, particularly how certain vulnerabilities have dropped off the list and new vulnerabilities have arisen.
One of the obvious issues with ebusiness is that its still an emerging technology and as the technology itself moves ahead so do vulnerabilities. Possibly one of the biggest unrealised issues with bricks and mortar organisations as they depend more and more on ebusiness technologies is their vulnerability to issues like these.
Refs:
Olzak, Tom.; Lock it down: Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your web applications — Part 1.; http://builder.com.com/5100-6371_14-6166717.html?tag=nl.e601
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) website; http://www.owasp.org/
