Once again Facebook is under scrutiny for bad protection efforts. The Tech Giants latest screw-up was a programming bug that gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 Million users.
Today, IT must ensure secure access to corporate resourcesfor users of both laptops and smartphones. Yet there is asubtle—but distinct—difference between securing laptops and smartphones. In theory, with company-issued, IT-controlled laptops, IT has traditionally had the option to lock down the operating system to prevent the installation of potentially insecure or non-approved applications. Nowadays, though, …
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Google have discovered another critical security vulnerability in one of Google+’s People APIs that could have allowed 3rd party developers to steal private information of over 52.5Million users.
On Thursday last week, Australia finally passed the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypted communications. The more has come out of this and through this article, we will …
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Vulnerabilities have been found within Adobe once again. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign that appears to be targeting a Russian state health care institution before it moves to the rest of the world. The …
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A new interesting technique of ransom attached to a rapidly spreading ransomware attack in China is getting the world’s tech leaders attention as the infection has spread to more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack. An impactful point is that the number of infected users is continuously growing …
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The Lowy Institute, known as Australia’s biggest, independent, foreign affairs think tank. Providing high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on the international trends shaping Australia and the world. The organisation has now been hit by cyber-attacks that have reportedly come from China and throughout this article, we will break down how this has happened and if it …
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This story is quite unbelievable but it happened. Throughout this article, we will look to break down the back story and dive deeper into the Hack. PewDiePie is an independent Youtuber with the largest subscription base on the Google YT platform with over 70 Million subscribers. PewDiePie who’s real name is Felix Kjellberg, is known for …
50,000 Printers Were Hacked To Promote Youtube’s Largest Channel (PewDiePie) Read More »
Dell, one of the biggest technology companies in the world has stopped an attack on its Dell.com electronics store after an unknown group of hackers attempted to steal all customer data including their names, home addresses, email addresses and hashed passwords, through their internal network. On November 9th, Dell detected an disrupted unauthorised activity on …
Dell.com Resets All Passwords After Cyber Attack Read More »
On November 19th we notified our clients that Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) services were down for a lot of users. The reason for notifying particular clients is that Office 365 and Dynamics users authenticate via this service, they also were affected. Microsoft’s Azure team has gone public with the root cause they discovered when …
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