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...
What’s happened? We previously warned you all about the Covid-19 themed scams and since then the cybercriminals have not stopped. Preferably, a significant increase in reports. Followed by the ACCC. On average ...
The Government’s contact-tracing app COVIDSafe aims to help track down people. Who may have been shown to COVID-19? But like any smartphone app, it raises privacy and security questions. Especially becaus...
Microsoft warns to stay alert from human-operated ransomware campaigns During the pandemic crisis, the cybercriminals are still looking for victims. The Microsoft’s Threat Protection Intelligence Team has...