UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover
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Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded
Last month, Azure stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded … Mastodon: Rob Ricci / @ricci@discuss.systems : Azure: Our datacenters got DDoSed by 500k IP addresses — Everyone else: We ar...
Qantas discloses a cyberattack after hackers gained access to a third-party platform with 6M customers' personal data, but says no financial info was exposed
Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data.
Australia, Europol, and more say they infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including its alleged admin
Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law
In short: — Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
CrowdStrike says a Falcon sensor configuration update on Windows triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD, remediated after 78 minutes
Thankfully, Macs weren't affected by last week's catastrophic … Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week's major tech outage? CrowdStrike : Likely eCrime Actor Uses Filenames...
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors
Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
Australian telecom Optus says its mobile network has been restored and “most services should now be online” after an hours-long outage affected 10M+ customers
“One of my patients had a cardiac arrest, I couldn't call an ambulance,” he said. Adj. Professor Warwick Powell : “Could do better” is possibly the understatement of the year. — I'm talking about th...
Investigation: some stakeholders, like AI firms selling CSAM scanning tech, funded lobbying efforts for EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson's CSAM scanning proposal
the best follow the money reporting on who's behind the global attack on digital privacy yet. — TLDR: it's law enforcement x AI companies posing as NGOs w a commercial interest in selling scammy mas...
NYT, CNN, and some other news outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl Foundation's CCBot
Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT