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The coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdowns have led to a rise in remote working, meaning more people are using video conferencing software like Zoom to communicate with colleagues, as well as socialise with friends. But the need to work from home is something cyber criminals are attempting to take advantage of and now researchers at […] More
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that the country’s universities and scientific facilities are being subject to a wave of hacking attempts conducted by other countries in the quest for coronavirus research. According to the NCSC, as reported by The Guardian, state-sponsored threat actors are focusing on information related to the novel […] More
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has been consulting with industry to determine Australia’s engagement with two United Nations (UN) processes on what is deemed as responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. The United National General Assembly (UNGA) established the two processes in December 2018: the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) and the Open […] More
Image: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India The Indian government announced on Friday that all workers, both in the public and private sectors, are required to install the nation’s COVID-19 contact tracing app as it begins to ease some of its lockdown measures for lower-risk areas. Likewise, it is also mandatory for […] More
Last week, a security researcher published a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that turns Chrome browsers into proxy bots, allowing hackers to navigate the web using an infected user’s identity. The tool, named CursedChrome, was created by security researcher Matthew Bryant, and released on GitHub as an open-source project. Under the hood, CursedChrome has two different parts […] More
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has shown its support for the Bill, paving the way for Australia to obtain a proposed bilateral agreement with the United States for implementing the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act). In a submission [PDF] to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), ASIO said […] More
The message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison is simple, patronising, and dangerously misleading: Download the COVIDSafe app and we can start letting you out of coronavirus lockdown. It’s misleading because there’s no evidence that a so-called “contact tracing” app will be a net benefit. Someone should’ve checked that up front. It’s dangerous because much of […] More
Image: Ghost A serious hacking campaign is currently underway, and tens of companies have been hacked already, ZDNet has learned from security researchers keeping an eye on the attacks. For the past 24 hours, hackers have been mass-scanning the internet for Salt, a type of software used to manage and automate servers inside data centers, […] More
