June 23, 2023

Aussie PM says, “Shut down your phone every 24 hours for 5 mins” – but that’s not enough on its own

Don't treat rebooting your phone once a day as a cybersecurity talisman... here are 8 additional tips for better mobile phone security.

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February 17, 2020

Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details

A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist.

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February 07, 2020

Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud

Organizations were attacked for employees' data, including names, addresses and birthdates used to set up hundreds of bank accounts.

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January 31, 2020

Financial tech firms disagree on ban of customer data screen-scraping

They use it to offer things like budgeting apps. It puts passwords and privacy at risk, but some say they can't afford to build APIs instead.

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January 21, 2020

China and US top user data requests in Apple transparency report

Most of the US and China's requests had to do with investigations into fraud, suspected account access and phishing.

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October 15, 2019

350+ hackers hunt down missing people in first such hackathon

Organizers said 100 leads were generated every 10 minutes by contestants using OSINT - open-source intelligence such as online searches.

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October 07, 2019

Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans

The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.

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August 01, 2019

Five Eyes nations demand access to encrypted messaging

The alliance wants tech companies to build backdoor access to users’ encrypted data, by force if necessary.

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April 05, 2019

New law will punish social media companies for users’ violent content

Australian law makers have responded very quickly to the Christchurch shootings.

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