05 Sep

Microsoft mistakenly rated Chromium, Electron, as malware

Microsoft appears to have fixed a problem that saw its Defender antivirus program identify apps based on the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framework

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05 Sep

China orders tech companies to ‘improve traceability’ of users to control ‘rumours and false information’

China will conduct a three month blitz to cleanse the local internet of “rumors and false information”. The nation’s Cyberspace Administration last Friday announced the

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02 Sep

Google, YouTube ban election trolls ahead of US midterms

Google and its YouTube subsidiary have joined other social media networks pledging to keep the 2022 US midterm elections safe and free from Russian trolls

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02 Sep

Convicted felon busted for 3D printing gun parts

A US man has admitted he broke the law when he used 3D printers to make components converting semi-automatic guns to full auto. Kent Edward

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02 Sep

Revealed: US telcos admit to storing, handing over location data

US mobile carriers know a lot about where their customers are located, and according to letters sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), they routinely

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02 Sep

Indian court directs chat app Telegram to disclose details of copyright infringers

A ruling handed down from the Delhi High Court this week declared that Telegram must hand over information such as IP addresses, mobile numbers, and

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02 Sep

Back-to-School: Balancing Social Media & Mental Health

Wouldn’t it be nice if, along with grades for English, Science, and Algebra this year, our child’s report card included quarterly feedback on their mental

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02 Sep

Ex-NSA trio who spied on Americans for UAE now banned from arms exports

Three former US government cyber-spies who, among other things, illicitly compromised and snooped on Americans’ devices for the United Arab Emirates government have been banned

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01 Sep

Smartphone Alternatives: Ease Your Way into Your Child’s First Phone

“But everyone else has one.”  Those are familiar words to a parent, especially if you’re having the first smartphone conversation with your tween or pre-teen.

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01 Sep

Here’s how 5 mobile banking apps put 300,000 users’ digital fingerprints at risk

Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk

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01 Sep

Oh no, that James Webb Space Telescope snap might actually contain malware

Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims’ computers – albeit in a roundabout way. The

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01 Sep

LabMD gets another shot at defamation claim against ‘extortionate’ infosec biz

LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling.  The

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01 Sep

FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year

The FBI has urged people to be cautious and heavily research a DeFi – decentralized finance – provider before putting your money into it, after

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31 Aug

Aussies Fear Snakes, Spiders and Getting Hacked

Fears and phobias. We all have them. But what are your biggest ones? I absolutely detest snakes but spiders don’t worry me at all. Well,

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31 Aug

Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find

As the NHS in England is set to launch a competition for a far-reaching patient data platform, a public consultation has said decisions about health

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31 Aug

China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government

Researchers at security company Proofpoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said on Tuesday they had identified a cyber espionage campaign that delivers the ScanBox exploitation framework through

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30 Aug

Find a security hole in Google’s open source and you could bag a $31,337 reward

Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain

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30 Aug

Privacy, please! Why a VPN on your smartphone may be a smart move for you.

Using a VPN on your smartphone can boost your privacy in a big way, particularly with all the data tracking that’s happening out there today. 

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