Morrison announces repurposing of defence money to fight increasing cyber threats

Morrison announces repurposing of defence money to fight increasing cyber threats

Posted by Angela Wong, 02-07-2020

The federal government is repurposing $1.35 billion of its planned defence spending over a decade to meet the increasing threat of cyber attacks on Australia. The announcement follows Scott Morrison ...

Security Industry Association Strongly Opposes the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act

Security Industry Association Strongly Opposes the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act

Posted by Angela Wong, 02-07-2020

The Security Industry Association (SIA), the leading trade association representing security solutions providers, today announced its strong opposition to the recently introduced bicameral Facial Reco...

iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards

iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards

Posted by Angela Wong, 01-07-2020

n March, researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk revealed that Android and iOS apps – including the mind-bogglingly popular, China-owned, video-sharing/often in privacy hot water Ti...

India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, Helo, WeChat

India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, Helo, WeChat

Posted by Angela Wong, 30-06-2020

NEW DELHI| BENGALURU: The government banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to t...

Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it

Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse

Posted by AngelaWong, 29-06-2020

Ransomware is rapidly shaping up to be the defining online security issue of our era. It's a brutally simple idea, executed with increasing sophistication by criminal groups. A huge chunk of our ...

Massive complexity endangers enterprise endpoint environments

Massive complexity endangers enterprise endpoint environments

Posted by AngelaWong, 29-06-2020

There’s a massive amount of complexity plaguing today’s enterprise endpoint environments. The number of agents piling up on enterprise endpoint devices – up on average – is hin...