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With people practicing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic Google’s latest effort to boost video-conference capabilities brings group calling on its Duo app to the web. Duo, which launched in 2016, was originally only for mobile platforms. The company last year added support for one-to-one calls on the web, but soon Google will roll out group […] More
For IT professionals working in hospitals and healthcare clinics, fixing a problem with a wireless network is now more than a temporary headache. Diagnosing connectivity issues in a coronavirus ward in a hospital could put a person’s health at risk. Wyebot wants to take the risk out of those maintenance tasks with a wi-fi automation […] More
The Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan is now receiving frequent updates and upgrades to its malicious arsenal while being deployed in active coronavirus scams. On Monday, IBM Security researcher Nir Shwarts said the company has been tracking the evolution of the malware which is based on the leaked codebase of the well-known Zeus v.2 Trojan. Zeus […] More
A Dutch researcher has detailed nine attack scenarios that work against all computers with Thunderbolt shipped since 2011 and which allow an attacker with physical access to quickly steal data from encrypted drives and memory. Researcher Björn Ruytenberg detailed the so-called Thunderspy attacks in a report published on Sunday, warning that the attacks work even […] More
A set of vulnerabilities impacting Oracle’s iPlanet Web Server has been disclosed by researchers. Tracked as CVE-2020-9315 and CVE-2020-9314, the security flaws allow for sensitive data exposure and limited injection attacks. First discovered by Nightwatch Cybersecurity researchers on January 19, 2020, the issues were found in the web administration console of the enterprise server […] More
The Communications Alliance has asked the government to add further details to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020 (IPO Bill), specifically around the cost of compliance for carriers and carriage services providers (CSPs), and to make the Bill more in line with the spirit of the United States’ Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act). […] More
Image: Department of Health The recent experience of Jim Mussared with the COVIDSafe app illustrates how Australia is still behind the pace when it comes to handling reports of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The government’s official COVID-19 contact tracing app, which is more accurately described as an exposure notification app, is based on Singapore’s TraceTogether app. It […] More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft and Intel have recently collaborated on a new research project that explored a new approach to detecting and classifying malware. Called STAMINA (STAtic Malware-as-Image Network Analysis), the project relies on a new technique that converts malware samples into grayscale images and then scans the image for textural and structural patterns specific to […] More
