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New Zealand ‘Beehive’ Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The New Zealand government has introduced a Bill that proposes to block violent extremist content, introduce criminal offences, allow the ordering of take-down notices, and would hand the power to a chief censor to make immediate decisions on what material should be blocked. The objective of the Films, Videos, […] More
Image: Samsung Samsung has launched a new secure element (SE) chip to protect private and sensitive data on mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. The chip, dubbed S3FV9RR, will be offered as a standalone turnkey with security software, Samsung said. Common Criteria, which certifies the security level of IT products from EAL0 to EAL7 […] More
Telstra Player Tracker Screenshot: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet Telstra was last year approached by the Australian Football League (AFL) to develop a way to track the players and display it in a real-time and interactive way to fans. Speaking at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit Online, Telstra lead architect Ralph Stone said the proposition was quite simple. […] More
Image via Luke Chesser A team of Chinese academics has found a new way to abuse HTTP packets to amplify web traffic and bring down websites and content delivery networks (CDNs). Named RangeAmp, this new Denial-of-Service (DoS) technique exploits incorrect implementations of the HTTP “Range Requests” attribute. HTTP Range Requests are part of the HTTP […] More
Thousands of enterprise systems are believed to have been infected with a cryptocurrency-mining malware operated by a group tracked under the codename of Blue Mockingbird. Discovered earlier this month by malware analysts from cloud security firm Red Canary, the Blue Mockingbird group is believed to have been active since December 2019. Researchers say Blue Mockingbird […] More
A group of seven internet companies are vowing to stand up for the privacy of its users this week when the United States House of Representatives considers the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020. Mozilla, Engine, Reddit, Reform Government Surveillance, Twitter, i2Coalition, and Patreon have asked four US legislators to explicitly prohibit the warrantless collection […] More
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has provided a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) for its review of the nation’s pending Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020 (IPO Bill) after failing to do so when the committee called for submissions earlier this year. The review has been seeking to determine […] More
To address concerns about battery life and the use of Bluetooth in its contact tracing app, Singapore currently is looking to develop wearable devices to help drive the adoption of such technologies and boost its efforts to contain COVID-19. It currently has no plans, for now at least, to make the use of its contact […] More
