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Under Australian laws such as the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987, government authorities can issue foreign companies that operate in Australia, like Microsoft, with requests for data. “Microsoft responds to demands for non-content data globally from a number of countries including Australia,” Microsoft assistant general […] More
Legislation surrounding the federal government’s coronavirus trace tracking mobile app, COVIDSafe, has been introduced to Parliament. The purpose of the Privacy Amendment (Public Health Contact Information) Bill 2020 is to assist in “preventing and controlling the entry, emergence, establishment, or spread of COVID-19 into Australia”, by amending the Privacy Act 1988 to provide stronger privacy protections for users […] More
Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts has said it is incumbent on producers of 5G equipment to actively monitor their supply chains for security risks, and that the Australian government needs to produce “strict guidance” on the issue. The recommendation was contained in the report from the […] More
Huawei denied on Monday having any official involvement in an insecure patch submitted to the Linux kernel project over the weekend; patch that introduced a “trivially exploitable” vulnerability. The buggy patch was submitted to the official Linux kernel project via its mailing list on Sunday. Named HKSP (Huawei Kernel Self Protection), the patch allegedly introduced […] More
Google has removed last year a batch of 813 “creepware” apps from the official Android Play Store following a report from a group of academics studying stalkerware-like apps. The research behind last year’s report has now been published online this month in a paper titled “The Many Kinds of Creepware Used for Interpersonal Attacks.” In […] More
Open Source Open source rules. Everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Zoom uses it. Don’t believe me? Synopsys, a software and silicon design company, which also covers intellectual property, reported in its 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report that nearly all (99%) of audited codebases contained at least one open-source component. That’s […] More
Microsoft has started rolling out today the May 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month, the company has patched 111 vulnerabilities across 12 different products, from Edge to Windows, and from Visual Studio to the .NET Framework. This month’s Patch Tuesday is the third-largest in Microsoft’s history after the company patched 115 bugs in March […] More
Today, US cyber-security officials have published details about three malware strains that have been used by North Korea’s government-sponsored hackers to attack targets all over the world. The announcement coincided with the three-year anniversary of the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, which US officials have formally blamed on the Pyongyang regime, and have even gone as far […] More
