Opinion (UK) As surveillance culture grows, can we even hope to escape its reach?The Guardian - Kenan MalikIf you want to protect your privacy, you must have something to hide Almost without realising, we have created an entire infrastructure of surveillance Sometimes, it is the very ordinariness of a scene
Australian Labor Party Morrison’s miracle: why the Australian Labor party suffered a crushing defeatnewstatesman.com - Adrian Pabst The election is one of the most spectacular, and unexpected, results in Australia’s political history. After three years of being ahead in the opinion …
Opinion Australia’s Political Shock Echoes From Ohio to LondonBloomberg - David Fickling, Daniel Moss Australia likes to think that its electoral system is immune to the sort of shock outcomes seen elsewhere in recent years. Voting is compulsory, so …
When Security does matter!securypto.io Securypto explanation for Tech-nerds 🙂 Monetizing content distribution Empowering content creators to receive direct payment for each download, views …
Technology How we might protect ourselves from malicious AIMIT Technology Review - Karen Hao New research could make deep-learning models much harder to manipulate in harmful ways. We’ve touched previously on the concept of adversarial …
Technology Experts warn 5G could interfere with weather forecasts, reducing accuracy by 30%Digital Trends Experts and officials have warned that interference from 5G wireless radios could seriously compromise the ability to forecast weather, including the …
Queensland Election 2019: Why Queensland turned its back on Labor and helped Scott Morrison to victoryabc.net.au - Allyson Horn When Bob Brown's anti-Adani convoy rolled through the Sunshine State demanding voters shun coal, he hammered a nail in Bill Shorten's electoral …
John Bolton Why John Bolton Is The Most Dangerous Man In The Worldnationalmemo.com - Jefferson Morley When National Security Adviser John Bolton demanded military plans to oust the government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, Trump demurred, reportedly …
WhatsApp WhatsApp vulnerability allows hackers to install spyware on your phone with one callbgr.com - Jacob Siegal Facebook shared a security advisory on Monday, May 13th warning WhatsApp users that an “advanced cyber actor” has been spreading spyware through the …
Spyware May I have a word about… Pegasus spywareThe Guardian - Jonathan BouquetThe unsavoury revelations about the hacking of WhatsApp by software developed by Israeli company, NSO Group, raised some interesting imagery. NSO has developed a powerful smartphone virus called Pegasus,
The NSA knows its weapons may one day be used by its targetscyberscoop.com - Shannon Vavra U.S. military commanders say that when Cyber Command and the National Security Agency use a capability against targets abroad, they understand it …
Bill Gates Want your kid to be like Bill Gates? Here's what the billionaire's parents didn't do—and it clearly paid offCNBC - Tom Popomaronis Want to raise the next Bill Gates? Join the club. Bringing up a multibillionaire tech legend is really just a pipe dream, but it goes without saying …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCommand-line Incident Reporting System | US-CERTus-cert.gov This file is a malicious Windows 32-bit executable. The application is a command-line utility and its primary purpose is to funnel traffic between …
Bluetooth Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security RiskWIRED - Lily Hay Newman Bluetooth is the invisible glue that binds devices together. Which means that when it has bugs, it affects everything from iPhones and Android …
Amazon Web Services Amazon’s Arrival and 4 Other Enterprise Blockchain Trends From Consensus 2019coindesk.com - Ian Allison The intermingling of public and private ledgers emerged as a key narrative in enterprise blockchain discussions at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 …
Personal Data Top 10 Hot Data Security And Privacy TechnologiesForbes - Gil PressAlmost 60% of the adult population in the U.S. found out recently that their personal data—names, social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, driver’s license numbers—could be in the hands of criminals.
Cronulla Sharks NRL: Inspired Sea Eagles down Sharks despite PM's supportstuff.co.nz Manly put a dampener on Scott Morrison's election celebrations with a resounding 24-14 NRL win over the Prime Minister's beloved Cronulla. Less than …
Opinion (UK) The WhatsApp spyware story tells us that nothing is secureThe Guardian - John NaughtonThe new voice-call hack is being presented by NSO as an enticing new 'attack vector' When Edward Snowden broke cover in the summer of 2013 and a team of Guardian journalists met up with him in his Hong
Brexit Party Brexit mess is about to get much, much worseCNN - Analysis by Luke McGee, CNNLondon (CNN) — On May 23, the UK's Brexit mess gets even more complicated. Nearly two months since Brexit was supposed to happen, Brits will elect candidates to represent them in the European Parliament.
Pauline Hanson One Nation candidate wins 20% in NSW Hunter Valley seat Australia News - Naaman ZhouA tattooed, often-shirtless One Nation candidate has won a 20% swing in the New South Wales seat of Hunter. Stuart Bonds, a mining mechanic who describes himself as a “strong believer in the coal industry”
Technology Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreadingMIT Technology Review - Martin Giles The rogue code can disable safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. It was discovered in the Middle East, but the …
Privacy What is the dark web? How to use Tor to protect your privacyWired UK - Nicole Kobie The dark web is infamous as a dangerous place, where drugs are bought and hitmen hired, but it can be a safe way to browse the internet if your …
Remote Working 5 Important Takeaways From Google's Two Year Study Of Remote WorkForbes - Abdullahi MuhammedRecently, the folks at Google published their findings from a two year study they conducted on remote work. The company is certainly in a good position to study this, as a full 30% of the meetings held
Linksys Over 21,000 Linksys routers leaked their device connection historiesEngadget - Jon FingasCertain Linksys WiFi routers might be sharing far more data than their users would like. Security researcher Troy Mursch has reported that 33 models, including some Max-Stream and Velop routers, are exposing
Prenatal Development If a fetus is a person, it should get child support, due process and citizenshipThe Washington Post - Carliss Chatman, an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, studies corporate personhood, corporate governance and ethics, among other legal topics.Alabama has joined the growing number of states determined to overturn Roe v. Wade by banning abortion from conception forward. The Alabama Human Life Protection Act, as the new statute is called, subjects
Donald Trump No holds Barred: Trump and his troops push for imperial presidencyGuardian US - David Smith in WashingtonHe’s attempting to create a counter-narrative based on conspiracy theories in which the FBI is cast as the villain Sidney Blumenthal Barr says Trump’s campaign was ‘spied’ upon. Trump claims treason. are
Symantec How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for AttacksThe New York Times - By NICOLE PERLROTH, DAVID E. SANGER and SCOTT SHANEChinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, a leading cybersecurity firm
Technology Yes, there are security ramifications to serverless computingZDNet - Joe McKendrick With three in five enterprises now going or planning to go serverless, the attack surface widens. At least one in five organizations, 21%, have …
Artificial Intelligence Reportsainowinstitute.org Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice Law enforcement agencies are …
Technology Amazon's Alexa recorded private conversation and sent it to random contactThe Guardian - Sam WolfsonThe company, which has insisted its Echo devices aren’t always recording, has confirmed the audio was sent No matter how suspicious it has seemed that Amazon is encouraging us to put listening devices
