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Image: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India The Indian government announced on Friday that all workers, both in the public and private sectors, are required to install the nation’s COVID-19 contact tracing app as it begins to ease some of its lockdown measures for lower-risk areas. Likewise, it is also mandatory for […] More
Last week, a security researcher published a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that turns Chrome browsers into proxy bots, allowing hackers to navigate the web using an infected user’s identity. The tool, named CursedChrome, was created by security researcher Matthew Bryant, and released on GitHub as an open-source project. Under the hood, CursedChrome has two different parts […] More
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has shown its support for the Bill, paving the way for Australia to obtain a proposed bilateral agreement with the United States for implementing the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act). In a submission [PDF] to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), ASIO said […] More
The message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison is simple, patronising, and dangerously misleading: Download the COVIDSafe app and we can start letting you out of coronavirus lockdown. It’s misleading because there’s no evidence that a so-called “contact tracing” app will be a net benefit. Someone should’ve checked that up front. It’s dangerous because much of […] More
Image: Ghost A serious hacking campaign is currently underway, and tens of companies have been hacked already, ZDNet has learned from security researchers keeping an eye on the attacks. For the past 24 hours, hackers have been mass-scanning the internet for Salt, a type of software used to manage and automate servers inside data centers, […] More
Hackers have gained access to the core infrastructure of LineageOS, a mobile operating system based on Android, used for smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes. The intrusion took place last night, on Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), and was detected before the attackers could do any harm, the LineageOS team said in a […] More
The UK government’s cyber-security agency said this week it would stop using “whitelist” and “blacklist” due to stigma and racial stereotyping surrounding the two terms. Instead, the UK National Cyber Security Centre said that going forward, it would use the terms “allow list” and “deny list” instead of the two. “It’s fairly common to say […] More
A hacker has leaked on Friday the details of 15 million users registered on Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest online store. The hacker claims the data was obtained in an intrusion that took place in March 2020 and is just a small part of the site’s entire user database that was obtained in the hack. The leaker […] More
