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Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a massive cyber crime campaign that has infected nearly 9 million Android-based devices with preloaded malware.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Google’s new top-level domains prompt possible security concern
At the beginning of May, Google introduced a raft of new top-level domains for purchase from the public — .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov and .nexus.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 17 May 2023
Op-Ed: Quantum computing — the next cyber battleground
Australia’s ambitions in quantum computing are not new. There has been ongoing domestic research for a long time, supported by regular government funding. Although the ...
David Fairman • Wed, 17 May 2023
Twitter adds encrypted messaging — but only for verified, blue tick accounts
Twitter has announced it is implementing a long-awaited encrypted messaging function, and while it does currently work, there are limitations to the service still being ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 12 May 2023
Google introduces new safety features, including dark web scanning for email addresses
Google has announced a raft of new safety features at its annual Google I/O developer conference, aimed at protecting users from scams and phishing attempts, as well as ...
David Hollingworth • Thu, 11 May 2023
Op-Ed: Australia looks to privacy-preserving checks for legitimate website and app use
Australian application and website owners have been battling with bot traffic for some years now. Some of these battles are particularly high-profile: in entertainment ...
Guy Brown • Thu, 11 May 2023
Is Google’s new passkey security option the end of passwords as we know it?
Google announced this week that it has rolled out a new way to log into a Google account that does away with passwords and even multifactor authentication.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 05 May 2023
Samsung bans internal ChatGPT user after source code leak
Korean technology giant Samsung has announced an internal ban on the use of AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company announced to staff via a memo.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 03 May 2023
Op-Ed: World Password Day is about more than just passwords — identity management matters too
Passwords have undergone an evolution in recent years and with good reason.
Chern-Yue Boey • Wed, 03 May 2023
Op-Ed: Why ‘voice cloning’ won’t help fraudsters beat biometrics
You may have seen the recent headlines from a few journalists who have used artificial intelligence (AI) to create synthetic versions of their voices and access their own ...
Brett Beranek • Tue, 02 May 2023
Apple rolls out its 1st Rapid Security Response update to the public
Apple has utilised its Rapid Security Response feature overnight to roll out its first such update.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 02 May 2023
Medusa threat actor boasts about spreading Microsoft’s Bing source code
The Medusa ransomware outfit is sharing what it claims to be the leaked source code of two of Microsoft’s Bing products — Bing Maps and Cortana.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 20 Apr 2023
Op-Ed: Operational technology under attack from rising cyber security threats
The past few months have seen cyber attacks hit nearly every single industry in Australia, across the government and the private sector.
Stefanie Oakes • Thu, 20 Apr 2023
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