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The World Health Organization (WHO) has teamed up with tech giants to launch a coronavirus-themed hackathon to develop useful technologies for those impacted by the pandemic. On Tuesday, the WHO, alongside Microsoft, Facebook, Giphy, Pinterest, Slack, TikTok, Twitter, and WeChat said the global #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon “is an opportunity for developers to build software solutions that […] More
A prolific state-backed Chinese cyber espionage operation started 2020 with one of its largest hacking campaigns – even though the coronavirus lockdown in China appeared to have an impact on the group’s output. The global operation by hacking group APT 41 – widely believed to linked to the Chinese government – targeted businesses in telecoms, manufacturing, […] More
A prolific state-backed Chinese cyber espionage operation started 2020 with one of its largest hacking campaigns – even though the coronavirus lockdown in China appeared to have an impact on the group’s output. The global operation by hacking group APT 41 – widely believed to linked to the Chinese government – targeted businesses in telecoms, manufacturing, […] More
Adobe has warned users of its Creative Cloud Desktop Application for Windows PCs about a bug that could let an attacker delete files from their computers. Windows 10 Third-party researchers discovered that Adobe’s suite of design apps for Windows is vulnerable to a Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race condition, which impacts […] More
Automation is something businesses in almost every sector are familiar with, as part of their efforts to make systems more efficient. It’s something that the cybersecurity industry is increasingly using, with automated data collection and processing playing an ever-growing role in protecting against data breaches and cyberattacks. But now, in the same way that they’ve […] More
The federal government in early 2014 launched the commercial element of its Document Verification Service (DVS), a national system that allows organisations to compare a customer’s information with a government record. The online system is managed by the Department of Home Affairs. The DVS matches government-issued identity documents — such as passports, birth certificates, or […] More
Image via Roman Spiridonov on Unsplash Microsoft announced today a new security feature for the Windows operating system. Named “Hardware-enforced Stack Protection,” this feature allows applications to use the local CPU hardware to protect their code while running inside the CPU’s memory. As the feature’s name suggests, its primary role is to protect the (memory) […] More
A research paper published this week has analyzed the current usage of a lesser-known feature of the Android operating system that could be a danger to user privacy. The study found that many of today’s top Android apps make use of IAMs (Installed Application Methods), a set of Android OS API calls that allow app […] More
