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Image: ParlView screenshot by Josh Taylor/ZDNet Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General of Security Mike Burgess wants technology giants to cooperate with law enforcement and disregard any arguments put up by the private sector against such action. Speaking with the Institute of Public Administration Australia as part of its Work with Purpose podcast series on […] More
IBM has announced it will no longer be offering general purpose facial recognition technology in fear that it could be used to promote racial discrimination and injustice. “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human […] More
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61 has completed the proof of implementation correctness of the open-source seL4 microkernel for the RISC-V instruction-set architecture (ISA). Unlike most other ISA designs, the RISC-V ISA is provided under open source licences that do not require fees. According to Data61, many organisations are developing processors based […] More
The CallStranger vulnerability can also be used to launch major DDoS attacks. More
Slated to be ready for rollout later this month, wearable devices the country is developing for COVID-19 contact tracing will not have GPS, internet, or cellular connectivity, so data can only be extracted when the device is physically handed over to the Healthy Ministry. More
Can you tell a human from a bot when you are using instant messaging? More
Chromium-based Brave stumbles in its efforts to shake up the browser business with cryptocurrency and privacy. More
Jenkins and MySQL vulnerabilities have had the most weaponized vulnerabilities in the past five years. More
