Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.
If Amazon’s Alexa thinks you sound sad,should it suggest that you buy a tub of ice cream?
Companies that force workers to create complicated passwords could actually be weakening their data security,Queensland researchers have found.
When the FBI wanted to unlock the iPhone of a shooter following a 2015 mass killing,and Apple refused to help,the bureau had to turn to Aussie expertise.
Total meltdown or death by a thousand hacks – how bad could a cyberwar get? And where is the line between espionage and all-out attack?
Security experts have now indexed and organised the leak of half a billion phone numbers,so you can check if yours is affected.
The personal data of more than half a billion Facebook users re-emerged online for free,a reminder of the company’s ability to collect mountains of information and its struggles to protect these sensitive assets.
Tesla cars have been banned from Chinese military complexes and housing compounds because of concerns about sensitive data being collected by cameras built into the vehicles.
For better or for worse the digital tools that have kept us connected and informed through the COVID-19 pandemic now also hold us captive.
Hackers say they gained access to the feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras after finding a password exposed on the internet.
Foreign hackers have exploited flaws in Microsoft’s email server software to plant malicious tools in computers around the world.