Cyber attackers have struck Australia again, with one of Australia’s top universities, the Queensland University of Technology, announcing a ransomware attack has hit them. At present, the university notes that there is no evidence any private data was stolen. The university has shut down its IT systems as a precaution, and students have been warned…
Cyber Onslaught on Australia Continues as Major University Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack
December 30, 2022
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TSMC Starts Volume Production of Most Advanced Chips in Taiwan
TAINAN, Taiwan—Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC) began mass production of its most advanced chips in southern Taiwan on Thursday and the company’s chairman said it would continue to expand capacity on the island. The long-awaited mass production of chips with 3-nanometre technology comes as attention focuses on the world’s largest contract chipmaker’s investment…
Google Must Face Privacy Lawsuit for Tracking Children Without Parental Consent: Appeals Court
December 29, 2022
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Google is set to face a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech behemoth of collecting information and tracking children’s behavior online without consent, according to the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by children, through their parents, against Google, YouTube as well as other firms with…
Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Policy to Follow and Question Science
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Wednesday he is enacting a new Twitter Policy related to post on the platform about science. “New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk wrote. No further details of the plan had been released, but The Epoch Times…
Apple Being Sued by New Yorker Alleging ‘Racial Bias’ Against Minorities on Watch’s Blood Oximeter
December 28, 2022
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Apple is facing a federal class-action lawsuit in New York over claims that a blood oxygen reader app on the Apple Watch yielded inaccurate results for minorities. Alex Morales, a New York resident, filed the lawsuit on behalf of several customers against the tech giant on Dec. 24, alleging that the Apple Watch’s blood oximeter had a…
Hacker Claims to Be Selling Personal Data of 400 Million Twitter Users
December 27, 2022
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A hacker claims to be selling the personal Twitter data of 400 million users, according to a report. The individual in question claimed to be selling the public and private data of more than 400 million Twitter users stolen in November 2021, which exploited an API vulnerability that was not fixed until January 2022. Although…
Elon Musk Says Around 100 Starlinks Now Active in Iran
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm’s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he posted on Twitter that he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country. Musk said, “approaching 100 starlinks active in Iran”, in…
Elon Musk Says ‘Almost Every Conspiracy Theory That People Had About Twitter Turned Out to Be True’
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, claimed on Dec. 24 that nearly every conspiracy theory about the social media platform has turned out to be true. Musk made the comments during an interview on the “All-In” podcast, where he also discussed the so-called “Twitter files” that were initially released earlier this month via independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari…
Dating Apps Operators to Meet With Government Amid Push for Online Safety
December 26, 2022
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Representatives of dating apps will meet with the Australian federal government to discuss security measures and areas for potential law reform amid reports about high rates of assaults on the platforms. It comes as the government ramped up its online safety laws which will allow the eSafety Commission to regulate illegal and restricted content no matter…
Big Tech Is Eliminating Human and Civil Rights by Proxy: Security Expert
December 25, 2022
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Big Tech firms have become instruments to suppress human and civil rights worldwide, says cybersecurity expert Rex Lee. “They now become arms of the government [agencies], no different than an informant who is informing on people to a secret police force,” Lee, a security adviser at My Smart Privacy, told “China in Focus” on NTD…
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