When it launched, COVIDSafe was marketed as Australia’s ticket out of lockdown, so long as everyone downloaded it. “If you want to go outside when the sun is shining, you have got to put sunscreen o...
What’s happened? The Australian Government is aware of and responding to, a sustained targeting of Australian governments and companies by a sophisticated state-based actor. A range of tactics, techniques, and ...
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech...
A new technology that could help alert people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 is being tested to determine if it will work in Australia. Google and Apple have devised a COVID-19 ex...
COVIDSafe was sold by the Government as essential to lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, but the app is yet to provide much assistance to local health authorities. Since its launch on April 26, more than...
A Dutch master’s student has found vulnerabilities in the Thunderbolt input/output port hardware design that lets attackers fully bypass computer access security measures such as Secure Boot, login passwo...
The privacy protections behind Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app are now enshrined in law after the underpinning legislation passed through parliament with minor improvements. The Privacy Amendment (Pub...
The Government claims to have “comprehensively disrupted” scammers pretending to be from the Australian Taxation Office through a technology trial run in collaboration with telcos. Communications Minister Paul ...
What’s happened? Previously, we had seen cybercriminals were scamming through text messages by impersonating Australia Post. This time the scammers are using emails which falsely claim a package hasn’t been del...