Defence restructures ICT function – Strategy
Defence has restructured its ICT function, renaming it as the Defence Digital Group (DDG) and establishing three divisions with oversight of ‘business’ and ‘military’ technology…
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Amazon.com previews FTC defence – Strategy
Amazon.com’s top lawyer has previewed the broad outlines of the company’s possible defence against the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the retailer, at…
Confluence vulnerabilities under active ransomware exploitation – Security
The Atlassian Confluence Data Centre and Server vulnerability first disclosed last week is under active exploitation. Security company Rapid7 said it has seen attackers exploiting…
Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users – Telco/ISP
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and the health care sector. Banking…
Hacker Leaks 35 Million Scraped LinkedIn User Records
The scraped LinkedIn database was leaked in two parts: one part contained 5 million user records, while the second part contained 35 million records. A…
TransForm says ransomware data breach affects 267,000 patients
Shared service provider TransForm has published an update on the cyberattack that recently impacted operations in multiple hospitals in Ontario, Canada, clarifying that it was…
Fake Ledger Live app in Microsoft Store steals $768,000 in crypto
Microsoft has recently removed from its store a fraudulent Ledger Live app for cryptocurrency management after multiple users lost at least $768,000 worth of cryptocurrency…
US consumer watchdog proposes rules for Big Tech payments, digital wallets – Software
The top US consumer financial watchdog has proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying they rival traditional payment methods in…
Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying
In 1763, the radical journalist and colonial sympathizer John Wilkes published issue no. 45 of North Briton, a periodical of anonymous essays known for its…
Nationwide Optus outage hits mobile, fixed services – Telco/ISP
Optus engineers are working to restore services after an outage that started early this morning. According to a notice on Optus’ status page, both fixed…
BlueNoroff hackers backdoor Macs with new ObjCShellz malware
The North Korean-backed BlueNorOff threat group targets Apple customers with new macOS malware tracked as ObjCShellz that can open remote shells on compromised devices. BlueNorOff…
QLD, SA governments back Azure OpenAI service in early GenAI experiments – Cloud – Software
The Queensland and South Australian state governments are forging ahead with practical guidance and early sanctioned uses of generative AI that run on top of…