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Image: Supplied/AEC For the wondrous benefits the internet has brought, it is not without its drawbacks. This has manifested itself in two ways when it comes to democracy: A headlong rush into internet voting and a shattering of the polity. As a scientific critique on the act of voting, associate professor Vanessa Teague discussed electronic […] More
Getty Images/iStockphoto A 58-year-old man will on Monday appear in Bankstown Local Court, with New South Wales Police alleging he accessed a company’s server unauthorised. NSW Police said that following extensive investigations, the man was issued a Court Attendance Notice on 30 December 2019. See also: How Victoria Police handled the Bourke Street incident on social […] More
Image: ClearSky Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions — or even billions — of dollars at risk when information security isn’t handled properly. Read More 2019 will be remembered as the year when major security bugs were disclosed in […] More
Image: Tinkersynth, ZDNet, IOTA Foundation IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the IOTA cryptocurrency, has shut down its entire network this week after hackers exploited a vulnerability in the official IOTA wallet app to steal user funds. The attack happened this week, Wednesday, on February 12, 2020, according to a message the foundation posted on […] More
Microsoft has removed a standalone security update from its Windows Update servers and enterprise update channels after acknowledging reports of “an issue affecting a sub-set of devices.” The company says it’s “working on an improved version of this update in coordination with our partners and will release it in a future update.” The security update, […] More
A team of academics from Singapore has published this week a research paper detailing a collection of vulnerabilities named SweynTooth that impact devices running the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol. More specifically, the SweynTooth vulnerabilities impact the software development kits (SDKs) responsible for supporting BLE communications. These BLE SDKs are provided by vendors of system-on-a-chip […] More
Singapore has issued a directive for a Facebook page to be tagged a “Declared Online Location” (DOL) under the country’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), which requires a notice to be carried on the page stating it has “a history of communicating falsehoods”. The move comes after the author of the Facebook […] More
OpenSSH, the internet’s most popular utility for managing remote servers, has added today support for the FIDO/U2F protocol. This means that starting with OpenSSH 8.2, released today, users can configure a hardware security key when authenticating via SSH on a remote server. After users log into a server by using their username& password, or a […] More
