Tech giant leaves secret data exposed to public internet
Professional services company Accenture inadvertently exposes huge sets of potentially sensitive data, including that of Caltex Australia.
Professional services company Accenture inadvertently exposes huge sets of potentially sensitive data, including that of Caltex Australia.
Someone had been drinking the Turnbull Kool-Aid in Willoughby this morning, with Today Show Extra co-host Sonia Kruger welcoming with open arms the prime minister's push for a national facial recognition database.
Apple has released more details about the iPhone X's Face ID feature, publishing a new privacy site which addresses some of the concerns that people have had since the face-scanning feature was announced.
Frequent visitors to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay are up in arms after the site secretly added a feature to the site that sapped users' CPU resources to mine cryptocurrency.
BlueBorne would not require a user to click on a link or download a file as it spreads silently via Bluetooth-enabled devices.
The Australian government wants new powers to access encrypted communications, but do they need them?
Disney accused of secretly collecting personal information on some of its youngest customers and sharing it illegally with advertisers without parental consent.
Information about what you do online, down to every single URL, can likely be purchased on the web by anyone who wants it.
A British security researcher, who became an internet hero after he was credited with stopping a malicious software attack earlier this year, has been arrested at the Las Vegas airport and charged in connection with a separate attack.
In the wake of the ransomware outbreaks using Wannacry and the related follow-up, Petya, there has been a lot of discussion about digital protection. But how can you be sure your data is safe?
A 74-year-old Melbourne woman has been swindled out of $46,000 by scammers who groomed her to buy 330 iTunes gift cards as part of their crime.
A major, global cyber attack could trigger an average of $US53 billion ($68 billion) of economic losses, a report says.
Citing a UN report that says Australia is lagging on cybersecurity cooperation, Labor's spokeswoman on cyber security and defence says our fall from fourth place to seventh is 'a direct result of the Turnbull government's failure to effectively implement its own cyber security strategy and engage with international partners'.
Bupa's international health insurance arm was hit by a malicious act in its UK office, putting the private information of almost 20,000 Australian customers in danger.
The government has further detailed legislation, to be introduced this year, which will oblige tech companies and telcos to assist law enforcement in accessing encrypted information.
Eugene Kaspersky, the colourful Russian cyber security executive, says technology companies must respect the individual's privacy and products should not be made to be broken.
Thought you had dodged a speeding fine? You haven't been so lucky.
Hijacking the servers of a company which makes a popular accounting program, hackers sent false software updates to around a million computers, which kicked off the massive worldwide spread of 'NotPetya' last week. Experts now believe the apparent mass ransom attempt was merely a cover for something more nefarious, and Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to untangle it.
A confronting report shows that a vendor on the dark web can pull up the full Medicare card details of any Australian on request — and is selling them for around $30 each — indicating a security hole somewhere in the health system.
Australia's cyber intelligence agency will be given the power to launch offensive operations to shut down foreign criminal networks, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced.
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