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A Russian national has pleaded guilty to corruption charges after being accused of being one of the leaders of a carding ring trading in stolen identities, credit cards, and hacking tools. On Friday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Sergey Medvedev, also known as “Stells,” “segmed,” and “serjbear,” was one of the lead members […] More
Singapore has begun issuing COVID-19 contact tracing wearables to its “most vulnerable seniors”, whom it describes as currently not digitally connected and are at higher risk from the coronavirus. Called TraceTogether Token, the Bluetooth-enabled wearables will each have a unique QR code and does not have internet or cellular connectivity. The announcement comes weeks after […] More
The Office of the eSafety Commissioner has received an additional AU$10 million in funding to help it administer protections in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts Paul Fletcher said Australians have embraced a “rapid digitisation of workplaces, schools, and households” during COVID-19, which he said underpins the […] More
Facebook on late Friday afternoon argued at Australian Federal Court that the handling of personal data owned by Australian users is only the responsibility of Facebook Ireland, and that the US-based Facebook Inc has no contractual relationship with these users. The lawsuit, raised by the Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner in March, is in relation […] More
A decision that Apple unilaterally took in February 2020 has reverberated across the browser landscape and has effectively strong-armed the Certificate Authority industry into bitterly accepting a new default lifespan of 398 days for TLS certificates. Following Apple’s initial announcement, Mozilla and Google have stated similar intentions to implement the same rule in their browsers. […] More
Ransomware is rapidly shaping up to be the defining online security issue of our era. It’s a brutally simple idea, executed with increasing sophistication by criminal groups. A huge chunk of our lives is now stored digitally, whether that’s photos, videos, business plans or customer databases. But too many of us have been lazy about […] More
Apple said this week that it declined to implement 16 new web technologies (Web APIs) in Safari because they posed a threat to user privacy by opening new avenues for user fingerprinting. Technologies that Apple declined to include in Safari because of user fingerprinting concerns include: Web Bluetooth – Allows websites to connect to nearby […] More
A window into edgy, sneaky competition? I have a weakness for drama. Especially when it involves espionage, sneaky behavior and uncontrolled anger. I binge-ate a large bucket of hibiscus-flavored popcorn, therefore, when I heard that some Chrome and Firefox users were accusing Microsoft of underhand activities. I was alerted to a Reddit thread that offered […] More
