Amazon Faces Ring and Alexa Privacy Violation Charges

This is Edwin Kwan from Sydney Australia. While smart home assistant and home surveillance cameras are meant to make our lives better, ever wonder just how private and secure is your data that’s being collected? The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and U.S...

Malicious Android Spyware Downloaded 421 Million Times

Security researchers have discovered an Android Software module with spyware functionality. The spyware module dubbed SpinOk demonstrates a seemingly legitimate software behaviour. It states that it is designed to maintain users’ interest in the app through the...

Latitude Financial Forecast $100 million Loss from Data Breach

Latitude Financial released an ASX announcement forecasting it’s first half of 2023 Statutory losses to be around $100 million. This is mainly attributed to the cyber-attack and data breach it suffered in mid March which affected 14 million records containing...

Mandatory 2FA Coming to PyPI

The Python Package Index has announced that all accounts that manages at least one project will need to have two-factor authentication enabled by the end of the year. The Python Package Index is a software repository for packages created in the python programming...

Surge in Business Email Compromise

Microsoft has released the fourth edition of their threat intelligence report titled Cyber Signals. The report highlights a surge in cybercriminal activity around business email compromise. Microsoft has observed a 38% increase in cybercrime as a service (CaaC)...

Apple Bans Employees from using ChatGPT

 While companies are embracing AI technology and using ChatGPT, others have chosen to avoid them. Apple is one of those companies. They have restricted their employees from using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence utilities. They have also barred their staff...