95734965
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Bismillah writes:
School admins are reporting that thousands of managed Chromebooks have suddenly forgotten their WiFi passwords and SSIDs, and can't connect to networks. The cause of the problem is unclear, but it may be related to an earlier Google service outage.
74321005
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Bismillah writes:
Although they've denied it in the past, Australia's federal and state police are very interested in Hacking Team's law enforcement spyware. There has also been recent interest from the Victoria state anti-corruption agency IBAC, leaked HT emails show.
74212849
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73915729
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AlbanX writes:
Australian telco Optus has been nabbed passing over its customers's mobile phone numbers to third-party websites without their knowledge.
The practice, known as HTTP header enrichment, aims to streamline the process of direct billing for customers, but they're not happy.
73304775
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Bismillah writes:
A new vulnerability in recent Macs — and potentially older ones — can be used to plant code such as rootkits into areas of EFI memory that shouldn't be writeable, but become unlocked after the computer wakes up from sleep mode.
73054961
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Bismillah writes:
Ross Anderson and Laurent Simon of Cambridge University studied a range of Android devices and found that even though a "factory reset" is supposed to fully wipe storage, it often doesn't. Interestingly enough, full-device encryption could be compromised by the incomplete wiping too.
72438301
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Bismillah writes:
China's allegedly largest security vendor Qihoo 360 has fessed up to supplying custom versions of its AV for testing according to an investigation by Virus Bulletin, AV-Comparatives and AV-Test.
72100335
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Bismillah writes:
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is outraged over mapping giant ESRI's latest move which entails vendor lock-in for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data through its proprietary Optimised LAS format. ESRI is the dominant company in the geospatial data arena, with its ArcGIS mapping platform boasting with over a million users and 350,000 customers.
65921549
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AlbanX writes:
The Australian Government has introduced a bill that would require telecommunications carriers and service providers to retain the non-content data of Australian citizens for two years of it can be accessed — without a warrant- by local law enforcement agencies.
Despite tabling the draft legislation into parliament, the bill doesn't actually specify the types of data the Government wants retained. The proposal has received a huge amount of criticism from the telco industry, other members of parliament and privacy groups.
65454811
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AlbanX writes:
Google researchers have discovered a vulnerability in a version of the SSL (secure sockets layer) web encryption protocol which allows attackers to break its cryptographic security.
The 'POODLE' attack allows attackers to steal secure HTTP cookies or other bearertokens. CDN provider CloudFlare has already disabled SSL 3.0 by default across its network, and Google said it hopes to do the same in the coming months.
64878425
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Bismillah writes:
From the that-didn't-take-very-long department: the Bash 'Shellshock' bug is being used to spread malware to create a botnet, wopbot, that's active and attacking Akamai and Department of Defense networks.
64854003
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Bismillah writes:
AWS is currently emailing EC2 customers that it will need to reboot their instances for maintenance over the next few days. The email doesn't explain why the reboots are being done, but it is most likely to patch for the embargoed XSA-108 bug in Xen.
64468971
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Bismillah writes:
Wikileaks latest release of documents shows the the Australian New South Wales police force has spent millions on licenses for the FinFisher set of law enforcement spy- and malware tools — and still has active licenses. What it uses FinFisher, which has been deployed against dissidents by oppressive regimes, for is yet to be revealed.
63852315
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Bismillah writes:
While you're in coverage during take-off and landing, at least. Passengers flying with Qantas and Virgin Australia might be able to leave their devices on from as early as September this year after the Civial Aviation Authority decided it was no longer unsafe to do so.
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Bismillah writes:
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia has started unboxing and installing its new upgraded 'Magnus' supercomputer, which could become the largest such system in the southern hemisphere, with up to one petaFLOPS performance.
