Google announced today it would stop its search engine in Australia and leave the country. The announcement came at a Senate Economics Legislation Committee hearing in Canberra. The search engine owner blames draft legislation Mel Silva, Australia Managing Director…
Tech giants will have to face increased regulation pressure. But Australia’s competition regulator mentioned that rules which should turn into a law this month, were just the beginning.
Giants to pay for news content
In December, the Australian government announced…
The former CISA director, Chris Krebs, became a consultant for SolarWinds. This comes as a help after the attack infected SolarWinds’ software and spread to important government and private customers.
After the attack, the company hired Krebs to counsult on the…
The researchers assume that the operators of the Ryuk ransomware managed to make more than $150m, in cryptocurrency. The security specialists studied the flaw of Bitcoin to the ransomware operators.
The AdvIntel company, together with the Hyas vendor came with a report which…
Home security systems put people at risk, according to a recent F.B.I. announcement. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation mentioned that attackers hack these systems and set them up to place fake emergency calls. The method is called “swatting.”
What is swatting and…
Australia would force Google and Facebook to pay the content producers for their news. This would be a world premiere, that should protect independent journalism.
Of course, there were lots of threats that came from the two giants, since the authorities started talking…
The COVID-19 vaccine storage and shipment became the new target of hackers, according to the IBM researchers. This happens just after the UK became the first country to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine and the first people will take it next week.
COVID-19…
COVID misinformation on the One America News Network’s (OANN) channel determined YouTube to temporarily suspend it. Thus, the video platform representatives mentioned that the right-wing outlet promoted a false COVID-19 cure.
The false COVID cure brought a ban…
The number of aggressive security attacks on both the biotech and pharmaceutical industry have risen by 50%, in 2020.
According to a new report from BlueVoyant, these things also happen as recent news give more hope regarding the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Thus…
Trump fired Chris Kerbs, one of the senior US cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government. Kerbs was the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), since November 2018. But Donald Trump removed him from this position.
US cybersecurity…
