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Apparently stung by the criticism of both vendors and security practitioners over the lack of logs to analyse a recent breach of its cloud service, Microsoft has backed down to some extent on charging customers for providing access to logging services.

A well-known tech personality says the advice from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to switch off mobiles once a day, may not be all that needs to be done to improve one's chances of avoiding security issues on devices.

A serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been announced, with the researcher who discovered and reported it saying it "allows overwriting data in arbitrary read-only files. This leads to privilege escalation because unprivileged processes can inject code into root processes".

The Apache HTTP Server Project has been forced to issue fresh fixes for a critical bug which was originally thought to affect only version 2.4.49 and fixed last Thursday.

A researcher from Google's Project Zero security team has written a detailed account of how he discovered a a memory corruption bug in the kernel of Apple's iOS operating system and then figured out numerous ways of using this flaw to attack other iPhones.

It's surprising that global cyber security firm Sophos has hidden from public view the fact that it has suffered a security breach which is said to have taken place during the week.

A recent 'purchasing raid' on Sydney's RailCorp lost property auction yielded 50 memory sticks, 66% of which contained malware.

Facebook's ongoing reluctance to tighten the privacy and security of its users reveals the fundamental problem with its business model.  In order to maintain business relationships with the 'corporates' (who pay the bills), the users must be delivered on a platter.

Social networking monster site Facebook needs to make a grassroots change to its security infrastructure, according to a security expert. In particular, Facebook should dump its opt-out and adopt a completely opt-in model for all of its features.

Over the past few days, news outlets have been emulating those bogus virus warnings we regularly receive from well-meaning friends.  Here's the short answer: Khobe isn't a problem.