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The Department of Home Affairs on Thursday faced the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) as part of the committee’s review of Australia’s pending international production orders regime, which will essentially create a framework for Australian agencies to gain access to stored telecommunications data from foreign designated communication providers in countries that have […] More
Image: Department of Health The Australian government has pushed out an update to its COVIDSafe app that removes a number of security and privacy issues. Prime among them is the denial of service attack possible on iOS devices, as demonstrated by Richard Nelson in a blog post. When devices running the app encountered a device […] More
Following reports on Thursday morning that a staff member from Service NSW clicked on a suspicious link from an email, the New South Wales government has confirmed it was the target of a malicious phishing attack. The breach was first thought to have only affected individuals who visited a Service NSW shop front or called […] More
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 2019 made 44 requests to the United States for access to communications stored on its shores to support investigations. A total of 209 requests have been made in the past five years. The requests are made through an existing mutual assistant request (MAR) process, and as the Parliamentary Joint […] More
The Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020 (IPO Bill) requires law enforcement agencies in Australia to consider privacy, proportionality, and human rights before making a request to access data. As currently drafted, it doesn’t require the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to do the same. On Thursday, ASIO Deputy Director-General of Enterprise Service Delivery […] More
Image: ZDNet Support for the DNS-over-HTTPS protocol has landed this week in Windows Insiders, Microsoft’s experimental version of Windows, where the company tests new features before making them broadly available. Current Windows 10 Insiders Fast Ring distributions now include a DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) client. When activated, this new DoH client will allow the Windows OS to […] More
female lab technician doing research with a microscope in the lab. coronavirus Getty Images/iStockphoto The US government has formally accused China today of orchestrating cyber-attacks against US companies working on COVID-19 research. The accusations were levied in a joint statement issued by the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) and […] More
VMware on Wednesday announced its plans to acquire Octarine, a three year-old company that provides a security platform for Kubernetes applications. Once the deal closes, VMware plans to integrate Octarine’s technology into the Carbon Black Cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Embedding Octarine capabilities into the Carbon Black Cloud “will enable […] More
