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Less than half of Singaporeans are comfortable sharing a positive COVID-19 test result with contact tracing technology, though 55% — the highest amongst six countries surveyed — are willing to do so with their employer or school. Ironically, while respondents are hesitant to reveal test results with their government, a majority across the global sample […] More
Tech-savvy individuals and firms have been eager to apply their skills to the coronavirus pandemic, as they should be. Some of them are working with governments who have flexed their “special powers” and public health muscles, as governments should do. Much of this tech effort, from all sides, has been put into contact tracing, which […] More
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has admitted to using a facial recognition tool, despite not having an appropriate legislative framework in place, to help counter child exploitation. In response to questions taken on notice by deputy commissioner Karl Kent, the AFP said while it did not adopt the facial recognition platform Clearview AI as an […] More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft has made today its AccountGuard service free for healthcare organizations working on the front lines of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The AccountGuard service is an anti-phishing protection system that Microsoft provides only to a very small number of selected users. Those who are admitted in the AccountGuard program receive extra protection and […] More
Image: ZDNet Microsoft has published today its monthly roll-up of security updates known as Patch Tuesday. This month’s updates are a bulky release. The OS maker has made available patches today for 113 vulnerabilities across 11 products, including three zero-day bugs that were being actively exploited in the wild. As always, details remain scant for […] More
Credit: Microsoft Less than a month after it postponed the end of support for some Windows 10 1709 versions, Microsoft is doing the same for Windows 10 1809, the feature update to Windows 10 released in the fall of 2018. In the case of Windows 10 1809, however, the delay affects more of the available […] More
Google has removed 49 Chrome extensions from the Web Store that posed as legitimate cryptocurrency wallet apps but contained malicious code that stole crypto-wallet private keys, mnemonic phrases, and other raw secrets. The 49 extensions were discovered by Harry Denley, Director of Security at the MyCrypto platform, who shared his findings exclusively with ZDNet last […] More
As the challenge of containing the coronavirus outbreak continues, governments around the world are looking to technology and smartphone apps to help trace the spread of the pandemic, in an effort to reduce the number of people who fall ill with COVID-19. But while the efforts may be a key tool for governments because they […] More
