Australia
Elon’s CSAM FAIL: Twitter Fined by Australian Govt.
Richi Jennings | | Australia, Australian Government, Child Abuse, child exploitation, Child Online Safety, child porn, child pornography, Child protection, Child Safety, child security online, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, CSAM, Digital Trust and Safety, Elon Musk, elon musk twitter, eSafety Commission, grooming, Julie Inman Grant, Linda Yaccarino, SB Blogwatch, trust and safety, Twitter, X
Straya strikes back: Musk’s mob declines to answer questions, breaking law dunundah ...
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D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944
Marc Handelman | | America's Allies, Australia, Belgium, canada, Canadian Forces, france, Free France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Armed Forces
“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions ...
TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million
Richi Jennings | | Australia, Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, five eyes, information commissioner's office, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, uk, Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Crikey! Not Another One! Lessons Learned From Australia’s Wave of Breaches
In the last few months, the citizens of Australia have been harshly awoken to the real consequences of cybercrime. It all started in September 2022 when wireless services giant Optus announced it ...
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Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944
Marc Handelman | | Australia, Belgium, canada, Denmark, Free France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom, United States of America
“… these men came here – British and our allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions ...
Digital Driver’s License Fails Spectacularly — ‘Laughably Easy’ to Forge
Richi Jennings | | Australia, digital driver's license, encryption, New South Wales, SB Blogwatch, Trying to brand your technology as unhackable is a surefire way to ensure it gets hacked
Is your state implementing a digital driver’s license? You’d better hope it does better than the Australian state of New South Wales ...
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What Is CPS 234 and Who Needs to Comply with It?
Anirudh Chand | | Australia, Compliance, Featured Articles, financial sector, regulation, Regulatory Compliance
In November 2018, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released the Prudential Standard CPS 234 in direct response to the escalating attack landscape in the financial sector. APRA has understood these threats ...
Australia Leads with Controversial Cyber Laws
The Australian government is looking to pass the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020, an overhaul which is aimed to help Australian businesses fend off cyberattacks. The Bill expands the business ...
New reforms will enhance the security and resilience of Australia’s critical infrastructure
Reinhart Hansen | | Application Security, Australia, Data Security, DDoS Mitigation, DDoS Protection, Digest, Infrastructure, runtime application self-protection
Improving the security of critical infrastructure has become the focus of many governments around the world, including Australia. This is because a failure or disruption in one area of critical infrastructure can ...
Secret Govt. Spy Powers Coming Here—via Australia
Richi Jennings | | Australia, five eyes, government surveillance, If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
The Australian government has given itself an enormous surveillance tool. Five Eyes means that rules in Oz can be used here, too ...
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