iTWire - Assange to seek Supreme Court leave to appeal against extradition

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will submit an application on Thursday [23 December], seeking leave to appeal to the UK Supreme Court to annul the High Court decision on his extradition to the US. The appeal is one of...

iTWire - Attackers find new way to exploit Office hole patched by Microsoft

Attackers have tested an exploit for a critical Office vulnerability already fixed by Microsoft, by using a different format than that which was originally used in the exploit. The new exploit disappeared after a short interval. Researchers from...

iTWire - Avast claims to have found backdoor in US Govt commission network

Security provider Avast claims to have found a backdoor on the Windows network of a US Government commission that is associated with international rights, but has been unable to get the body to engage in order to resolve the problem. In a blog...

iTWire - Barnaby Joyce makes Assange an issue in Australian federal poll

Say what you like about Barnaby Joyce, the Australian deputy prime minister knows when to interject himself into an issue and make himself relevant. He has very finely tuned political antennae. That's what he has done in the case of WikiLeaks...

iTWire - Worst effects of logging flaw yet to be experienced: security pro

A senior security professional says the vulnerability in the Log4j Java-based logging library is comparable to both the Heartbleed and Shellshock flaws that have come to light over the last decade, but the new vulnerability is more devastating....

iTWire - Assange may approach Supreme Court after US wins extradition appeal

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange could seek permission from Britain's Supreme Court to contest the verdict of a two-bench High Court panel which, on Friday, reversed a lower court's decision to deny a US request for his...

iTWire - Logging library flaw opens software from different vendors to RCE

A serious vulnerability in the Log4j Java-based logging library is affecting many enterprise applications and cloud services. The flaw, an unauthenticated remote code exploit, allows the complete takeover of systems using versions 2.0-beta9 up to...

iTWire - Outcome of 850/900MHz band spectrum auction

Two companies, Optus and Telstra, have won spectrum in the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) latest spectrum auction. All 16 lots available were allocated. The allocation realised a total revenue of $2,091,618,000, equivalent...

iTWire - Microsoft a big part of the cyber security problem: Proofpoint exec

Microsoft's technology plays a big role in facilitating increasingly devastating cyber attacks, a senior official at an email security firm says, accusing the Redmond behemoth of profiting from the existence of vulnerabilities. In an op-ed...

iTWire - The price of electricity around the world

A recent report maps the price of electricity in every country around the world. This data might be of some interest to bitcoin miners and owners of data centres in their decision-making process to determine suitable locations, although typically,...

iTWire - Qualcomm reboots 8 series flagship Snapdragon with new name, smarter smarts to fight everyone

With Apple arguably the world's most advanced SoC maker for smartphones, tablets and computers, the ARM and x86 competition is in full flight for a big fight for the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers, with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8...

iTWire - Digital ID expert says reducing cyber crime will need new thinking

Existing methods to detect and nab cyber criminals are likely to be ineffective in the years ahead, judging from the projections of consulting firm PwC, the chairman of the digital identity provider VeroGuard claims. H. Daniel Elbaum, chairman and...

iTWire - Govt promises new rules to force online firms to unmask trolls

The Federal Government will put in place new rules to force technology companies to identify anonymous online trolls, or be exposed to the risk of defamation payouts. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a media conference on Sunday that social...

iTWire - Digital group says govt troll move will not decrease hate online

The Australian arm of a global initiative working to counter digital threats to democracy says the Federal Government's proposed new rules to expose online trolls will not solve the problem on online hate on social media. Chris Cooper,...

iTWire - Musings on the OWASP Top 10

This year's OWASP Top 10 underwent some significant restructuring. A few vendors offered their thoughts. The recently released OWASP Top 10 - a summary of the primary attack vectors used by ne'er-do-wells has taken a somewhat different...

iTWire - Fears about real agenda behind Online Safety Bill after US podcast

Fears have arisen about the agenda of the eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant after the news website Crikey reported that she had appeared on a podcast hosted by an American anti-porn group. Inman Grant was given broad-ranging powers in an...

iTWire - Labor offers 30,000 homes without Internet free service for year

The Australian Labor Party has announced it will provide free broadband for a year to 30,000 homes which have no Internet connections, as part of its broadband policy for the upcoming election. In a tweet, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said:...

iTWire - 50 years since Intel's groundbreaking 4004 processor arrived - wow!

The Intel 4004 was "the first commercially available microprocessor," and while it is extremely primitive by today's standards, it "paved the way" for the modern microprocessor computing revolution and changed the world as we...

iTWire - Attacker undetected by Qld regional water supplier for nine months

Attackers stayed undetected in the systems of Sunwater, Queensland's biggest regional water supplier, for nine months, a report claims. The attackers are claimed to have planted files on a Web server that redirected traffic to an online video...

iTWire - Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-days in monthly fixes

Two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities are among 55 flaws fixed by Microsoft in its monthly Patch Tuesday, with four other zero-days also being remedied. Apart from the six zero-days, all other bugs were rated as important, the second...