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Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:48
Data breaches: health sector still worst performer, says Thales chief
By Sam Varghese
The most recent data breach report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has something of a silver lining, but not as far as…
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Australasian technology company Datacom is offering its customers enterprise-grade security operations centre services incorporating Splunk's technology.
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Threat intelligence from the first half of 2021 demonstrated a significant increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting individuals, organisations, and increasingly critical…
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Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:00
Aussie parents say they want online safety taught in schools
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Australians believe schools should teach online safety cucciculum with a new study showing that many parents have not taken proactive security measures to protect their family/home…
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Tuesday, 24 August 2021 11:15
Bogus investment scams cost Australians $70 million, with doubling of losses predicted by year’s end
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Australians have lost over $70 million to bogus investment scams in the first half of this year and a massive increase in losses are predicted…
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- investment scams
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- bogus investment scams
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- fake celebrity endorsements
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- Delia Rickard
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- Ponzi schemes
- older Australians
- Hope Business scams
- Wonderful World scams
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An Android malware - Flubot - has hit Australia spreading by SMS messages to unsuspecting users of their Android devices.
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Thursday, 19 August 2021 11:15
Businesses fall short when it comes to data privacy expectations: study
By Kenn Anthony Mendoza
Australian businesses are not keeping up with the data privacy expectations of their customers when digitising their offering, according to a new Heart Matters study…
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Wednesday, 18 August 2021 10:36
Top researcher slams Microsoft over 'astonishingly bad' security advisories
By Sam Varghese
A well-known security researcher has slammed Microsoft for its "astonishingly bad" security advisories, pointing to the wording in a TCP/IP remote code execution vulnerability released…
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GitHub is home to many of the world's greatest open-source projects and to ensure continued protection to GitHub users and projects it no longer accepts…
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Tuesday, 17 August 2021 10:17
Accenture denies any impact from LockBit ransomware hit
By Sam Varghese
Attackers from the LockBit ransomware group have threatened to leak more data within a day that they claim they have stolen from global services provider…
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Re: iTWire - Aussies spend 27 years, 6 months, and 17 days of their lifetime online
I find it strange that things like watching streaming media such as Netflix or listening to music should be classifieded[…]
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Re: iTWire - Bogus investment scams cost Australians $70 million, with doubling of losses predicted by year’s end
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There's a lot more in US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' decision than you have reported here. Apple won all[…]
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I'm a retired proofreader with a lot of free time on my hands and would happily work as a moderator[…]
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