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COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced that its multi-tenant Qualys Cloud Platform was successfully assessed at the ‘PROTECTED’ level by the Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), an initiative by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). This achievement demonstrates that Qualys has met some of the highest security standards set by the Australian government for handling customers’ sensitive data.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is giving six months to the internet industry to come up with enforceable codes detailing how it will protect children from inappropriate content or material online such as pornography.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has dropped legal action against social media site X (formerly Twitter) over the posting of videos of a stabbing in Sydney.

The Federal Court has set 24 and 25 July for a two-day hearing to settle the stoush between the eSafety Commission and the social media site X over the posting of videos of a stabbing in Sydney.

The Federal Court has refused a request from the Australian eSafety Commission to extend an injunction that required the social media platform X [formerly Twitter] to block access to videos of a stabbing in Sydney, that occurred on 15 April.

An interim order that required the social media platform X [formerly Twitter] to block access to videos of a stabbing in Sydney, that occurred on 15 April, has been extended until Monday [13 May] morning, when Federal Court Judge Geoffrey Kennett will render his judgment.

The tussle between X owner Elon Musk and the Australian eSafety Commission over taking down videos of a stabbing in Sydney, will continue in court on 10 May after a brief Federal Court case management hearing on Wednesday afternoon.

The Australian Federal Court has ruled that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, should shield all users from videos of last week's stabbing incident in Sydney until the issue is dealt with later this week.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) has announced new Omni Channel technology advances set to elevate retail operations and customer experiences across several key areas; Point of Sale, Order Management, Customer Service & Engagement and Store Inventory & Fulfillment.

The owner of X, Elon Musk, has been described as a "narcissistic cowboy" who thinks he can ignore the Australian Parliament, following his decision to go to court over videos of a Sydney stabbing incident that he was asked to take down.

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has refused to comply with an order from the Australian eSafety commission to take down content related to the stabbing attack in Sydney, saying it does not violate its rules on violent content.

GUEST RESEARCH: Social and media intelligence provider Meltwater and creative agency We Are Social have released Digital 2024 Australia, their latest annual report providing an in-depth analysis of the country's digital, social, and e-commerce landscape.

GUEST RESEARCH: As of October 2023, researchers at Bitdefender Labs have been actively keeping tabs on steam-jacking attacks against high-profile YouTube accounts used to conduct myriad crypto doubling scams.

GUEST OPINION: 2023 saw a whirlwind of challenges – both old and new – but we also realised many opportunities to become more secure and stay ahead of evolving information security threats. As expected, it was another challenging year for information security as organisations continued looking for ways to stay ahead of hackers. We saw an increasing amount and complexity of phishing attacks overall, driven by a major trend throughout the year making a significant impact: AI-driven phishing. Phishing remains the most prevalent attack method due to its relatively low cost and high success rate, and the implementation of AI now only furthers this problem.

Tech companies are now required to take more proactive measures to combat harmful content, including online child sexual abuse and pro-terror content now that Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has commenced public consultation on draft industry standards.

COMPANY NEWS: With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, Yubico, the leading provider of passwordless hardware authentication security keys, has announced that during Cyber Week, which runs from 20-27 November, YubiKeys will be available for “buy one key, get 50% off your second key.”

The Meta family of apps—Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger—request the most data from smartphone users, according to research from data centre company TRG Datacenters.

GUEST RESEARCH: Americans spent over US$200 billion online during the 2022 festive shopping season, making 2023 a record year for online retailers. This year, 97% of people recently surveyed said they plan to shop online. As festive season related revenues grow, so does the temptation for criminals to take a part of the action for themselves – over US$300 million were lost to scammers in 2022 according to the FBI’s IC3 report for 2022.

It seems the biggest online tech platforms are falling short when it comes to tackling the proliferation of child sexual exploitation, sexual extortion, and the livestreaming of child sexual abuse, according to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s second report.

Telco Singtel Optus is the most distrusted brand in Australia for the last 12-month period, the market research firm Roy Morgan says, adding that this was the first time any company had taken the top spot from Facebook/Meta since it started issuing the measure of trust and distrust in 2018.