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An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old "allegedly established...
An Australian man was charged by Australia's Federal Police for allegedly conducting an 'evil twin' WiFi attack on various domestic flights and airports in Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide to steal other people's email or social media credentials. An evil twin WiFi network is a malicious/fake wireless access point that uses the identical SSID as that of a legitimate or expected network in a specific area.
The interest in Microsoft Copilot is high, with many major Australian organizations signing on to be part of Microsoft's early access and pre-launch testing process. Gartner recently published a series of "Gotchas" with Copilot, and these are things Australian organizations need to consider in order to fully think through implementations and to benefit from what Copilot offers.
Northern Minerals issued an announcement earlier today warning that it suffered a cybersecurity breach resulting in some of its stolen data being published on the dark web. The firm is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker 'NTU,' so it is legally obliged to disclose any data breach incidents promptly.
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In recent weeks, the Australian government has announced several objectives and initiatives that are intended to drive towards a single outcome: a far more robust local manufacturing industry. The intent of the Future Made in Australia Act is to build Australian manufacturing capabilities across all sectors, so it is very likely that announcements in the solar panel industry are just the tip of the iceberg.
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A recent series of reports and data point to one consistent theme: The skills crisis in the Australian IT industry is deepening and the nation-wide solutions seem unrealistic, but for IT professionals who are motivated to develop their skillsets, the opportunity is massive. In acknowledging that there is a need for migrant skills to fill the gaps, late last year, the government announced a new skilled visa that covers skills in deepest demand, including IT. As defence think tank ASPI noted in a report of its own, there are only around 7,000 Australian students graduating with an IT degree each year, while demand for IT professionals is expected to grow by 233,000 by 2033.
An Australian IT contractor has been sentenced to 30 months jail for ripping off the National Maritime Museum. The nonprofit museum celebrates Australia's maritime heritage - a matter of some import for the island nation, which therefore attracts government funding.
Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three - in "Strange places." Tools like FontForge and ImageMagick can rename filenames of fonts, allowing users to work within a complex naming system to better locate a desired font inside a collection.