Hi John, The embattled au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, has suffered a further blow with the resignation of Nicole Murdoch, a director from the demand class.
In a bitter irony the personal details of attendees to security vendor RSA Conference 2018, being held in San Francisco this week, have leaked through unsecured public facing APIs using hard-coded credentials in a mobile application. Google is making a quiet bid to win a US$10 billion cloud contract from the US Defence Department which is to be awarded before the end of the year and the search giant’s employees are up in arms over the move. Facebook does not appear to have changed its attitude to user privacy in any way despite all its recent troubles, with the company having decided to avoid providing the protections afforded by the EU General Data Protection Regulation to nearly 70% of its registered users worldwide. The stay of detained British security researcher Marcus Hutchins in the US will be prolonged further, after his lawyers gained more time on Thursday to argue why statements he made after his arrest should be suppressed. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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