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Report: Hacker Could Spoof Child's Location, View Personal InformationAn Australian company that markets a smartwatch designed to let parents monitor their child has taken its service offline...

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Senate Committee Reviewing Law With an Eye to AmendTechnology organizations say Australia's anti-encryption law passed in December is already undermining trust in their local operations. The...

'No evidence that any data has been accessed time' say Australian officials as fingers pointed at foreign spies The Australian Parliament has reset all passwords on the parliamentary computing...

No Signs of Data Theft; Password Resets OrderedHackers have breached the Australian Parliament's network, although investigators say they have found no evidence that attackers stole any data. But...

Australia's parliament revealed Friday that its computer network had been compromised by an unspecified "security incident" and said an investigation was under way. read more

Restricted Data Access Required by Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism LawsMassive data brokers - Equifax, Experian, Illion and others - are leveraging Australia's electoral roll, which is a...

Last week, Australia passed a law https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029">giving the government the ability to demand backdoors in computers and communications systems. Details are...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Old and new OpenSSH backdoors threaten Linux servers OpenSSH, a suite of networking software that allows secure...

Ring in the new year with some of those backdoors, developers Congratulations, Australia: somehow after chaotic scenes in parliament, the government managed to secure after-the-bell passage for...