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What is CrowdStrike and how is it linked to the global cyber meltdown?
ABC Investigations reporter Paul Farrell attributes the scale of the outage in part to the company’s success in dominating the cybersecurity sector.
The company was linked to an unprecedented IT outage which grounded flights, interrupted broadcas…
Are smart home security systems more of a security risk than a benefit?
Last September, owners of Wyze security cameras in the US were shocked to discover that rather than viewing footage from their own homes on their webcam feeds, they were actually peering into the properties of other camera owners.…
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Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy
For most of us, the word “medium” means “a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment”. For a biologist, though, the term means something rather different: “the nutrient solution in which cells or organs are grown”.…
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A father took his life after losing his savings to international criminal gangs. He’s not the only one
Sitting at the kitchen table, Matt* struggles to recount the events of the past few months.
“As soon as I found out it was a suicide, I was 100 per cent sure that it was the scam,” he says.…
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Debating whether Julian Assange is a journalist is irrelevant. He changed journalism forever
The two most consequential Australians in history are surely Rupert Murdoch and Julian Assange. Germaine Greer would come a distant third.
Unsurprisingly, Assange and Murdoch have gained their notoriety through journalism and the media.…
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North Korea Uses Google to Steal Passwords
North Korean hackers have used Google Chrome extensions to gather personal data from South Koreans.
The hack, which forms part of a long-running attempt at cyber-espionage by the pariah state, employed a complex act of software trickery to install fake…
Here’s a look at the false claims you might hear during tonight’s presidential debate
To hear former President Donald Trump tell it, the US has fallen apart under President Joe Biden: the economy is failing, countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions across the southern border and crime has skyrocketed.…
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Stella Assange thanks Australian lawmakers for WikiLeaks founder’s freedom
Stella Assange thanked the spectrum of lawmakers who campaigned for her husband, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to be freed during her visit Thursday to Australia’s Parliament House, where political leaders differed over how welcome the convicted fe…
China ups the ante on Taiwan, cyberattacks see massive uptick, claims cybersecurity research firm
Microsoft reported in August 2022 that RedJuliett, which it tracks under the name Flax Typhoon, was targeting Taiwanese organisations. China’s increased cyber activities complement its military drills around Taiwan and its economic and diplomatic press…
Thwarting cyberattacks from China is DHS’s top infrastructure security priority
Combatting “cyber and other threats posed by the People’s Republic of China” (PRC) is a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the end of 2025, according to a guidance document the department released last Thursday.…
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