The Australian Information Commissioner has been given the green light by the Federal Court to sue Facebook Inc (the US company) and Facebook Ireland for allegedly violating the privacy of Australians in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

ICT industry executive and former Internet Australia CEO Laurie Patton says the Australian Government’s planned introduction of a coronavirus contact-tracing app poses the potential for the illegal or inappropriate use of people’s personal information, and the prospect of “catastrophic” accidents.

More data which was exfiltrated from the Australian freight forwarding and logistics company Henning Harders has been publsihed online, an indication that company has not yielded to the demands of the Maze ransomware group that carried out the attack, security sources tell iTWire.

Security outfit Sophos claims that funds extracted from victims of sextortion schemes have been deposited by cyber criminals in bitcoin wallets.

SeaChange, a global public supplier of video delivery software, has been reportedly hit by a Windows ransomware attack, with the malware in question being REvil aka Sodinokibi.

Sydney-based healthtech startup RxMx's new Chameleon automated risk management system allows it to deliver customised products without coding, the company claims.

Australian-listed cloud-based IT solutions provider Linius Technologies says it has received firm commitments from professional and sophisticated investors to raise $1.7 million, before costs.

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