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The Department of Home Affairs has been working to broaden the list of agencies who can access metadata under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. An undated letter penned by Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, received under the Freedom of Information Act by CommsDay, said the department was working with state and territory […] More
Cloudian, VMware, and Veeam have joined forces to offer Object Lock-based ransomware protection, which the tech giants say can combat any sort of vulnerability to ransomware in government bodies. Object Lock is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 feature that blocks object version deletion during a customer-defined retention period so customers can enforce retention policies […] More
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says hackers took control over its account at a local domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names, which they later used to contact some of its customers. The exchange paused remittance operations on its platform on Tuesday while it’s investigating the incident. Other operations, such as withdrawals or deposits, […] More
Today, Google started rolling out an update to its iOS apps and online services that adds support for WebAuthn-capable security keys. Hardware security keys are devices that generate unique cryptographic keys that are used as a second proof during an authentication process after users have successfully entered their username and password. Security keys can be […] More
Image: ZDNet, WordPress Hackers have launched a massive campaign against WordPress websites over the past weekend, attacking old vulnerabilities in unpatched plugins to download configuration files from WordPress sites. The goal of the attack was to use old exploits to download or export wp-config.php files from unpatched websites, extract database credentials, and then use the […] More
Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has trashed a patch from Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers that was aimed at mitigating the Snoop attack on Intel CPUs discovered by an AWS engineer earlier this year. The so-called ‘Snoop-assisted L1 Data Sampling’, or Snoop (CVE-2020-0550) attacks affecting a range of Intel Xeon and Core CPUs were disclosed […] More
BlackBerry on Wednesday announced it’s partnering with the airspace security firm Dedrone to deliver counter-drone technology. Dedrone will be integrating BlackBerry’s AtHoc crisis communications software into its products to enable real-time alerts when a malicious or unauthorized drone is detected in a customer’s airspace. The new integration will allow customers to create automated, highly targeted […] More
External drives are a great way to store and backup data, but without proper encryption they make the data vulnerable to theft and snooping. And while software-based encryption solutions exist, they require effort on the part of the user and can risk leaving data unencrypted. This is why built-in hardware encryption is recommended. And the […] More
