PM under pressure to follow EU and US in taking step over fears Chinese-owned app poses cybersecurity risk Rishi Sunak has been urged to ban government officials from using TikTok in line with moves by the EU and US, amid growing cybersecurity fears over China. Officials in Europe and …
Parent company, ByteDance, says action is ‘misguided’ and has contacted commission to ‘set the record straight’ The EU’s executive body has banned its thousands of staff from using TikTok over cybersecurity concerns, a decision the Chinese-owned social video app has criticised as “misguided” and based on “fundamental misconceptions …
Twitter has announced that it will no longer support SMS two-factor authentication unless you pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. However, there are more secure options for multi-factor authentication, which we describe below. [...]
Automakers Hyundai and KIA are rolling out an emergency software update on several of their car models impacted by an easy hack that makes it possible to steal them. [...]
In this week’s newsletter: The social media network is putting its APIs – the under-praised tool that keeps the internet as we know it going – behind a paywall. And the ramifications are huge Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here APIs may not seem like …
Audit review of government tool housing Medicare and Centrelink services recommends significant changes Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The federal government’s much-maligned myGov app faces an overhaul and could soon …
A Canadian system administrator discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware. [...]
Researchers at the universities of California, Virginia, and Microsoft have devised a new poisoning attack that could trick AI-based coding assistants into suggesting dangerous code. [...]
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. [...]
A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2. BleepingComputer has confirmed the validity of many of the email addresses listed in the leak. [...]
Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison among politicians and celebrities whose details were in sample of allegedly hacked data published online The former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison appears to have been caught up in a leak of partial data on 400 million Twitter users, along with celebrities including …
In the final episode of Australian Politics for 2022, political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to the minister for home affairs and cyber security Clare O’Neil about the strategic challenges for Australia and the region. These include the increased likelihood of cyber-attacks, decreasing trust in democracy and growing risks …
Encryption of iCloud storage means the information will be safeguarded from hackers as well as government agencies Apple announced a suite of security and privacy improvements on Wednesday that the company is pitching as a way to help people protect their data from hackers, including one that civil liberty …
Super apps can revolutionise your life – but do you want to pay the price, wonders AI and innovation professor David Shrier Across Asia, the trend for a single app that does everything – from deliveries to bookings to chatting – is spreading. Known as super apps, they are rumoured to be …
Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Millions of Medibank’s current and former customers have had …
Company says its security system prevented the hacker accessing customer data or encrypted passwords Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Password manager LastPass has told customers that some of their information has …
Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The cybercriminals behind …
Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The cybercriminals behind …
Experts say investing in identity theft protection may provide peace of mind, but won’t help recover lost information Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The recent Optus and Medibank data breaches in which thousands of Australians had their personal information stolen …
European parliament is investigating powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged “disinformation campaign”. The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs …
Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Millions of Medibank’s current and former customers have had …
Fraud, online shopping and banking among most commonly reported crimes, but ransomware ‘most destructive’, ASD says Follow out Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The number of reports of cybercrime in Australia had shot …
Privacy policy update confirms data of continent’s users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about …
As the government develops online safety guidelines, digital rights groups says any approach requiring the use of ID is ‘invasive and risky’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast In the wake of …
Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure may revolutionise fields from healthcare to law enforcement Rachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it ( fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was …