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Australian privacy watchdog launches investigation into Clearview AI

Australia’s privacy watchdog will probe the personal information handling practices of Clearview AI after several polici...

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Business Support

NSW govt sets up vulnerability tracking centre in Bathurst

The NSW government has set up a cyber security vulnerability management centre in Bathurst, which will start operating n...

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Business Support

COVIDSafe was ‘sunscreen’ for coronavirus, until it wasn’t. Have we chosen the right solution to the pandemic?

When it launched, COVIDSafe was marketed as Australia’s ticket out of lockdown, so long as everyone downloaded it....

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Information Technology

Australian government and companies targeted by a sophisticated state-based actor

What’s happened? The Australian Government is aware of and responding to, a sustained targeting of Australian government...

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Information Technology

Spying on users of Google’s Chrome shows new security weakness

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-lea...

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News

Google and Apple release technology to help with COVID-19 contact tracing

A new technology that could help alert people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 is being test...

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Information Technology

Why COVIDSafe hasn’t helped, yet.

COVIDSafe was sold by the Government as essential to lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, but the app is yet to pr...

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Unfixable Thunderbolt flaws bypass computer access security

A Dutch master’s student has found vulnerabilities in the Thunderbolt input/output port hardware design that lets ...

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News

COVIDSafe privacy protections now locked in law

The privacy protections behind Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app are now enshrined in law after the underpinning...