Secure messaging applications that offer end-to-end encryption — like Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal — can leak users' confidential information through session hijacking because they depend on the operating system they are running on to protect application state and user information.

Tasmanian communications and cloud services provider TasmaNet has completed a deal to deliver superfast broadband using new NBN Enterprise Ethernet fibre technology, commissioning a 1 Gbps connection for St Michael’s Collegiate School in Hobart.

Once again, so-called security researchers and tech writers have combined to provide misinformation about trojanised SSH scripts which can be run on a Linux server after said server is compromised through a brute-force attack and root status attained. And they call it Linux malware!

Australians have been warned of a raft of holiday season scams including scammers setting up online shopping scams and phony travel scams attempting to trick people in believing they’ve won a holiday or scored a really good deal on a travel package.

Ransomware attacks continues as the main world’s main security threat and the most profitable form of malware, but a new global report indicates that despite “copious” numbers of infections daily there’s emerging signs the threat is no longer growing.

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