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The ransomware landscape is more crowded than you think
Ransomware-as-a-Service is a cyber-security term referring to criminal gangs that rent ransomware to other groups. Read More
Amazon employees improperly accessing video data from users' Ring security door bells.
Ring has faced several controversies over privacy and security in recent months. Reports last year suggested that Ring workers in Ukraine could view users' videos without their knowledge. And in December hackers dumped thousands of Ring user credentials online. Read More
Some of Russia's surveillance tech leaked data for more than a year
Evdokimov said he found 30 SORM devices installed on the network of 20 Russian ISPs that were running FTP servers that were not secured with a password. Read More
ACCC wants Google to show Australians the EU search engine options
If
Google doesn't offer its Android-using consumers a choice of search engine
within six months, the ACCC will ask the government to step in and demand
it. Read
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Tesla Model 3 review: Cheaper electric car lands in Australia
Not one for understatement, he also claims the car is the safest on the road, with peerless technology and better performance than driving benchmarks such as BMW’s M3 sports sedan. Read More
How Google is secretly recording you through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations
GOOGLE has turned your phone into a listening device.
DID you know that Google has been recording you without your knowledge?
The technology giant has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones
into listening devices that can capture intimate conversations — even
when they aren’t in the room. Read
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NBN pulls in AU$2b revenue so far for FY19
Five million premises have now been activated across the nation Read More
Apple TV+ paid service: The company's latest big bet
Apple
is making a big move into video streaming because the company can't afford
to fall even further behind. Here's what's at stake. Read
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The most interesting Internet-connected vehicle hacks on record
At 70 mph, the ride, a Jeep Cherokee, began blasting out freezing air through the air conditioning system, the car's radio switched station on its own, the windshield wipers turned themselves on with wiper fluid spurting across the windshield, and then the car ran itself off the road. Read More
Building the Tricorder: The race to create a real-life Star Trek medical scanner
Its vision of romantic encounters with aliens and plagues of tribbles may not have come to pass just yet, but Star Trek has proved surprisingly accurate in predicting the future in other ways. Read More
Android news and kids apps contain the most third-party trackers
An academic study of nearly one million Android applications reveals that most apps contain third-party tracking code, and that "news apps and apps targeted at children appear to be amongst the worst in terms of the number of third-party trackers associated with them." Read More
Photos: 60 years of NASA's technological accomplishments
NASA's 60 years of existence, which formally began on October 1, 1958, have been filled with technological milestones, from being the first organization to land a man on the moon to the amazing success of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Read More
Google secretly logs users in
Almost all users who never used Chrome's Sync feature before might find it surprising that they are logged into Chrome right now, as they read this article, if they've also logged into a Google account somewhere on Gmail, YouTube, or any other service. Read More
NAB phishing fraud hits inboxes
Anyone falling for the scam has given the crooks enough information to make transactions using their credit card Read More
Google: To be clear, this is how we track you even with Location History turned off
Google has now clarified what turning off the Location History setting really means.Read More
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Banking Trojan specifically targets Australians
Security provider warns of Trojan that steals banking credentials and other personal data. Read More
Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo
looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad. Read More
1996-2015