There is so much conjecture surrounding the recent announcement by our Federal Government to ‘opt in’ to the tracing app. Most recently, our Health minister Greg Hunt has put a question mark over whether a promise to release all source code for the federal government’s forthcoming COVID-19 contact tracing app is actually possible due to …
You may have seen news reports this week warning of Zoom’s privacy breaches, and that the technology’s rapid expansion hasn’t kept up with its cyber security. However, please be assured that hackers are not really interested in 99% of what we have to say! The warnings are really targeting high-end organisations who handle extremely sensitive …
If you’re similar to us at Technology for Gippsland (T4G), you’ll be checking in with your fellow colleagues, friends and family on a regular basis at the moment. Once upon a time, this would be ‘the norm’ – an assumed part of your day – something you perhaps took for granted even? However now, in …
We are constantly hearing that the current pandemic crisis is a once in a lifetime occurrence; the words ‘unprecedented’, ‘exponential’ and ‘self-isolation’ are now being used on an hourly rotation. “Coronavirus measures are ‘draconian’ but absolutely necessary,” says health chief Brendan Murphy. He also warns, “This virus will be with us for some time.” The …
1.Cryptojacking Over the years, cryptocurrency mining has captured the imagination of netizens and corporations alike. Many experts predict cryptocurrency to be the future of money. As transactions involving cryptocurrencies increase, hackers have come up with ways to trick their victims into loading mining codes onto their systems. The aim of hackers orchestrating crypto jacking attacks …
