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The US Department of Justice has announced charges against four Chinese hackers for breaching US credit reporting agency Equifax in the summer of 2016. Speaking at a press conference on Feb. 10, US General Attorney William Barr said the four hackers are believed to be members of the Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA). The four […] More
If your business is still running on Windows 7, you have some important decisions to make.When Windows 7 support ended last month, Microsoft stopped delivering security updates automatically, and many third-party vendors have dropped support as well. Most businesses completed their planning for migration to Windows 10 long ago and are in the final stages of implementing […] More
Cryptocurrency exchange Altsbit has claimed that a hack has led to the theft of a huge number of customer deposits including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). Last week, the Italian cryptocurrency trading post said that on February 5, an “attack by hackers” led to the theft of “almost all funds from BTC, ETH, ARRR, and […] More
Lock My PC is being removed from the public domain and free recovery keys are on offer to combat a wave of complaints concerning the software being abused by tech support scammers. Lock My PC is software offered on a free and business basis by FSPRO Labs, an organization which has also developed drive encryption […] More
New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) director, electronic collection, Shane Butler told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) and its review of the data retention regime that came into being on March 2015, his organisation authorised 459 requests for telecommunications data last financial year. Butler said of those 459 requests, 276 were […] More
A misconfiguration in an election day app developed by Likud, the party of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may have potentially exposed and compromised the personal details of almost 6,5 million Israeli citizens. The leak was discovered and detailed today by Ran Bar-Zik, an Israeli-born frontend developer for Verizon Media. It is unclear if the […] More
We’re in the middle of an Internet of Things gold rush, with big tech companies racing to persuade us cram as many smart gadgets as possible into our homes, our offices, our cars. Most of these are cheap, in many cases with the aim of encouraging us to buy as many as we can. Web […] More
The Australian Labor Party said on Monday it would be introducing a Private Senator’s Bill to fix the encryption laws that it voted for in 2018. The changes would include judicial authorisation that make the laws compatible with the US CLOUD Act, as well as changes in the previous Bill that was stranded prior to the […] More
