An "extremely over-permissive" Sender Policy Framework record left 190 organisations in Australia at risk of business email compromise and phishing, allowing attackers to spoof authenticated sender addresses. The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an anti-spam [...]
Social media platforms will need to successfully hand over the contact details of anonymous commenters making defamatory posts if they are to avoid liability under proposed "anti-troll" laws. An exposure draft of the Social Media [...]
Security researchers have discovered multiple hardware and software vulnerabilities in HP multi-function printers that could be used to steal confidential information and remotely pivot through network infrastructure. Finnish security vendor F-Secure analysed a HP MFP [...]
Queensland energy generator CS Energy’s corporate IT systems are being impacted by a ransomware infection. The company said in a statement that the infection had not impacted its Callide and Kogan Creek power stations, and [...]
Britain's independent Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wants to fine Clearview AI in excess of £17 million (A$31.7 million) for unlawfully scraping users' data from the internet for biometric facial recognition purposes. The ICO has taken [...]
The Australian Federal Police will establish a new cybercrime coordination centre to clamp down on business email compromise (BEC) and other phishing attacks. The Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (JPC3), which is set to launch [...]
The Australian government wants to bring in laws that would force social media platforms to “unmask” anonymous commenters that make defamatory or abusive posts and pass their details to the complainant. The so-called “social media [...]
Israel slashed its list of countries eligible to buy its cyber technologies following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking tool sold by Israeli firm NSO Group, Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Thursday. [...]
WA local government entities have been put on notice to improve their cyber security policies and procedures after nine councils failed to detect a simulated cyber attack. An audit, released on Wednesday, found that only three [...]
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli cyber firm NSO Group and its parent company OSY Technologies for alleged surveillance and targeting of US Apple users with its Pegasus spyware. The iPhone maker said it [...]
