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OZ Set For Record Scam Losses In 2019

Jan Arreza August 12, 2019 No Comments

Projections from losses reported to Scamwatch and other government agencies has warned that Australians are set to lose a record amount (approximately $532 million) to scams by the end of…

Apple Face Class-Action For Confidential Siri Recordings

Jan Arreza August 8, 2019 No Comments

Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit over user privacy, which claims Siri is recording users without their consent. The lawsuit, discovered by The Guardian and first reported on Bloomberg,…

Apple Restricts Facebook Apps

Computer Daily News August 8, 2019 No Comments

Apple is making a change to its mobile OS to restrict a feature that apps like Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp use to make voice calls over the Internet. The call…

FireEye Identifies Prolific Chinese Cyber Threat Group

Computer Daily News August 8, 2019 No Comments

Security intelligence company, FireEye, has released the details of its Advanced Persistent Threat group – APT41. FireEye said individual members of APT41 have been conducting primarily financially motivated operations since…

Microsoft A Popular File For Distribution Of Malicious Activity

Computer Daily News August 8, 2019 No Comments

Microsoft Excel has been signalled out as one of the most popular file types used to distribute malicious activity according to latest security figures from Mimecast in its Threat Intelligence…

Apple Yet To Fix iPhone Security Bug Found By Google

Jack Gramenz July 31, 2019 No Comments

Security researchers working for Google have found security flaws in the operating system that powers it’s rival Apple’s smartphones, including one the company is yet to fix. Two of Google’s…

OZ Mobile Users Under Attack By ‘Nation-States’

Computer Daily News July 31, 2019 No Comments

Un-named “nation states” are increasingly targeting mobile users in countries including Australia for intelligence gathering and disruption of national rivals, according to a report from Crowd Strike. “These nation-states typically…

Apple Has People Listening To Siri Recordings

Jack Gramenz July 29, 2019 No Comments

Apple contractors are listening to recordings of Siri users including private medical discussions, drug deals and sexual encounters, raising further privacy concerns surrounding digital voice assistants. It comes after revelations…

Facebook Cuts Off Sony, Microsoft Data Access

Jack Gramenz July 25, 2019 No Comments

Social media giant Facebook will again try to cut off companies including Microsoft and Sony from accessing data, as it seeks to rehabilitate its image in the wake of a…

Trump Talks To Techies On Huawei

Computer Daily News July 24, 2019 No Comments

US President Donald Trump has agreed to implement timely licensing decisions on blacklisted Chinese firm Huawei, after meeting CEOs from seven major technology companies at the White House. The Trump…