NSW Electoral Commission asks for cyber security top-up
NSW Electoral Commission’s IT wishlist for the state budget includes a $12.6 million request for cyber security operating costs, and permission to redirect $8.3 million…
Month: April 2025
Blogging: What’s the Difference Between Pingbacks and Trackbacks?
In the blogging world we often hear the words “pingback” and “trackback”. We vaguely understand them both to mean linking to someone else’s content, but…
DeepSeek outage adds to growing pains amid political scrutiny, but some see opportunity
Days after allegations of a cyberattack against the hot Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek, the company continues to face service issues, while the broader…
Cybercriminal vs Windows bug-bounty researcher
EncryptHub, a notorious threat actor linked to breaches at 618 organizations, is believed to have reported two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to Microsoft, revealing a conflicted…
Samsung Q1 profit to drop on weak AI chip sales
Samsung Electronics is expected to forecast a 21 percent drop in the first quarter profit, hurt by sluggish sales of artificial intelligence chips and continued…
Loving Safari | Daniel Miessler
Well I’m absolutely loving Safari. I only stayed with Camino for like a day; Safari had spoiled me. I solved my blog-posting issue in Safari…
Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb spyware abuses
Twenty-one nations signed on to a voluntary accord last week in Paris to govern the use of commercial hacking tools commonly known as spyware, after…
Australia bans Chinese AI DeepSeek from government devices
Australia has banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against a Chinese…
Gov scopes architecture for public health surveillance platform
The federal government is developing a blueprint for a new data analytics platform to track and manage diseases across Australia. The Department of Health is…
U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA Gateways flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA Gateways flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity…
There’s a Worm in my Apple
Apple, please pay close attention. Things are going well for you. You have momentum.Vista is flopping, the Halo effect is at full brilliance, and the…
Google addresses 2 actively exploited vulnerabilities in security update
Google addressed 62 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices in its April security update, including a pair of actively exploited software defects that were first disclosed in…