Real estate agents push back against Australian privacy law changes designed to protect personal data
Real Estate Institute of Australia president says additional layer of responsibility could force smaller agencies to close downGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastReal estate agents are pushing back against proposed privacy law...
Ambulance Victoria data breach reveals drug and alcohol tests of graduate paramedics
Privacy watchdog will be asked to investigate after information became available for all employees to view on the staff intranetGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe confidential drug and alcohol test results of...
Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets
Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to readA privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the...
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
CMA to look at underlying systems of artificial intelligence tools amid concerns over false informationBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK competition watchdog has launched a review of the artificial intelligence market, as it warned of threats from AI tools...
Labor to appoint dedicated privacy commissioner to combat data breaches
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will also be restored to a three-commissioner structure after defunding by CoalitionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government will appoint a dedicated privacy commissioner...
Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked ransomware attack
Cyberattack resulted in hacking of 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card detailsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily...
Australians report record $3.1bn losses to scams, with real amount even higher, ACCC says
Investment fraud amounts for biggest share at $1.5bn, followed by remote access and payment redirection rortsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralians lost a...
Labour glitch put voting intentions data of millions at risk
Exclusive: Experts say sensitive information could potentially have been harvested and used for targeted election interferenceThe voting intentions of millions of Britons in local authority wards across the country could have been at risk of misuse as a result...
Former TSB chief information officer fined £81,000 over IT meltdown in 2018
Regulator says Carlos Abarca ‘failed to take reasonable steps’ to ensure outsourcing firm was ready to migrate accounts en masseUK regulators have imposed an £81,000 fine on a former TSB information officer over the bank’s IT meltdown in 2018...
As the west tries to limit TikTok’s reach, what about China’s other apps?
With government concerns over national security growing, Beijing’s influence over platforms such as WeChat and Shein could come under scrutinyAs TikTok, the world’s most popular app, comes under increasing scrutiny in response to data privacy and security concerns, lawmakers...
Cybercrime: be careful what you tell your chatbot helper…
Alluring and useful they may be, but the AI interfaces’ potential as gateways for fraud and intrusive data gathering is huge – and is only set to growConcerns about the growing abilities of chatbots trained on large language models,...
International sting takes down online marketplace of stolen identities
Operation led by FBI and Dutch police with involvement of UK National Crime Agency takes Genesis Market offlineA criminal online marketplace selling millions of stolen identities for as little as 56p has been taken down in an international crackdown.The...
Cyberwarfare leaks show Russian army is adopting mindset of secret police
Documents leaked from Vulkan cybersecurity firm also raise questions about role of IT engineers behind information-control projectA consortium of media outlets have published a bombshell investigation about Russia’s cyber-capabilities, based on a rare leak of documents. The files come...
‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics
• Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war• Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare• Tools support hacking operations and attacks on infrastructure• Documents linked to notorious Russian hacking group Sandworm• Russian program aims to control internet and spread...
How the world is turning against social media
France has banned not only TikTok from government phones, but Facebook and Netflix, too. Could this be a tipping point for big tech? Plus, AI-generated pictures of the pope signal a new type of viral imageDon’t get TechScape delivered...
Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers
This RomCom is no laughing matter A change in the deployment of the RomCom malware strain has illustrated the blurring distinction between cyberattacks motivated by money and those fueled by geopolitics, in this case Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine,...
We need to refine and secure AI, not turn our backs on the technology
While the potential poisoning of ChatGPT raises some concerns, we need to take this threat as an opportunity to better refine and secure emerging AI models.
Active Mirai Botnet Variant Exploiting Zyxel Devices for DDoS Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw in Zyxel gear to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue relates to a command injection flaw impacting...
Urgent WordPress Update Fixes Critical Flaw in Jetpack Plugin on Million of Sites
WordPress has issued an automatic update to address a critical flaw in the Jetpack plugin that’s installed on over five million sites.
The vulnerability, which was unearthed during an internal security audit, resides in an API present in the plugin since version 2.0,...
Dark Pink cyber-spies add info stealers to their arsenal, notch up more victims
Not to be confused with K-Pop sensation BLACKPINK, gang pops military, govt and education orgs Dark Pink, a suspected nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage group, has expanded its list of targeted organizations, both geographically and by sector, and has carried out at...
