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Australia's Federal Police is getting more help from some very good boys with four paws, wagging tails, and the ability to sniff out tech equipment with their highly sensitive noses. The dogs can sniff out things like USB sticks or SIM cards, a task difficult for humans seeing as the devices are small and easily hidden.
Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "Partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data. For Google to not collect a device's location data, the user needed to let their wishes be known in both the "Location History" and the "Web & App Activity" setting segments.
Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "Partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data. For Google to not collect a device's location data, the user needed to let their wishes be known in both the "Location History" and the "Web & App Activity" setting segments.
Google violated Australian law by misleading users of Android mobile devices about the use of their location data, a court ruled Friday in a landmark decision against the global digital giant. The federal court found that in 2017 and 2018 Google misled some users of phones and tablets featuring its Android operating system by collecting their personally identifiable location information even when they had opted out of sharing "Location History" data.
Transport for NSW, which is the main transport and roads agency in New South Wales, Australia, and NSW Health, the state's ministry of health, are the latest confirmed victims of a cyber-attack targeting Accellion's FTA file transfer service. Transport for NSW says that some information was stolen before the attack on Accellion servers was interrupted and that an investigation is ongoing, but did not provide further details on the matter.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission on Monday disclosed a security incident that involved Accellion software. An independent commission of the Australian government, ASIC is the national corporate regulator, overseeing enterprise and financial services and also tasked with the enforcement of laws designed to protect consumers, creditors, and investors in Australia.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted one of its servers was accessed without sanction and may have been digitally pawed by miscreants. The attack involved a server containing documents associated with Australian credit applications and the commission warned that "Some limited information may have been viewed by the threat actor." ASIC was at pains to add that it hadn't seen evidence of the forms and attachments being opened or downloaded.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed that one of its servers has been accessed by an unknown threat actor following a security breach. ASIC is an independent Australian government commission tasked with the regulation of insurance, securities, and financial services, as well with consumer protection as Australia's national corporate regulator.
The Australian government warns of an ongoing campaign impersonating the Australian Cyber Security Centre to infect targets with malware. "The Australian Cyber Security Centre warns some Australians are receiving phone calls or emails from scammers claiming to be ACSC employees and that the receiving person's computer has been compromised," the cybersecurity agency warned.
Bad enough for many, but how much worse for those who's job it is 12hours a day and day after day without break. The stress of that and knowing every day could be the day you catch your bullet, unseen unfelt untill you fall.