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Founded in 2007, Industrie&Co has grown to a headcount of more than 170 staff spread across offices in Melbourne, Hong Kong, Singapore and its headquarters in Sydney, with 150 expected to cross to Accenture in Australia. Among them are current chief executive and co-founder Con Zeritis and Hong-Kong based managing director and one-time EY consultant […]
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You might have heard of the Dark Web. Here is how you can get access: If you want to know how the Tor network works, see:
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Here it is. It’s an information war. And the China Communist Party (CCP) membership database is the latest target. It’s pants down. Go get some data… https://gofile.io/d/Jo8W92 (Deleted) https://git.rip/botayhard/shanghai-ccp-member-db (Deleted) https://github.com/ccpdata/ShanghaiCCPMember (Deleted) https://gitlab.com/shanghai-ccp-member-db/shanghai-ccp-member-db (Deleted) Oops. Too late. Have you tried the Dark Web?
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Mooting in 2014, the Australian Government looks to strengthen data protection requirements for by requiring IT suppliers to provide a “Commonwealth Data Protection Plan” (CDPP). The CDPP essentially describes how an agency would treat its data during the phases of its lifecycle. The data lifecycle typically entails: Collection Usage & Disclosure Storage & Archival Disposal […]
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The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2). The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January, and a pandemic on 11 March. As of 3 May 2020, more than 3.42 million cases of […]
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Luscious.net loses 1million user details. According to the team at vpnMentor, an exposed database allowed access to Luscious account holders’ personal details. The accessible data included usernames, email addresses, activity logs, and location data for all 1.195 million users. “Our team was able to access this database because it was completely unsecured and unencrypted,” writes the […]
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Organisation have had it easy for some time. Data breaches are increasingly being addressed with penalties backed by GDPR legislation. Some noted fines are: British Airways was fined $328M. Facebook fined $5B for Cambridge Analytica data theft. $99M for Marriott Hotel In Australia, the OAIC reports that it received 812 privacy complaints in 2018. Entity […]
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#10 — Panera Number of victims: 37 millionWho was targeted: All PaneraBread.com customer accountsWhat data was exposed: Names, email and physical addresses, birthdays, and the last four digits of the customers’ credit card numbersTimeframe: Disclosed April 2018What happened: Despite being warned by a cybersecurity expert in August 2017 that their website was leaking data, the […]
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Bitcoin is a crypto-currency which leverages the Blockchain. Similar to a real currency, Bitcoin is hailed as a revolutionary technology for storing value. It’s popularity stems from distrust in real world currencies, the un-regulated printing of currencies like the US Dollar. Bitcoin is governed by “developers” and infrastructure. Crypto Miners who facilitate the transactions within […]
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In 2005, a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, […]
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Estonia is a small country bordering Russia, Latvia and Finland. It boasts of an advanced information management platform for government. This platform is the X-Road platform which is an invisible but crucial backbone for data transactions between the various e-services databases in the public and private sectors. X-Road facilitates harmonious interoperability. Estonia’s data stores are […]
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Are you famous yet? In another case of “Schadenfreude“, the Panama Papers have placed a list of dignitaries in the public spotlight a year after the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung received 2.6 terabytes of documents related to Mossack Fonseca from an anonymous source. This eclipses Wikileaks Cablegate 2010 (1.7 GB), Offshore Leaks 2013 (260 GB), Lux Leaks 2014 (4 GB), and Swiss Leaks […]
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Congratulations to Pratap Ranade and Ryan Rowe as the web-scaping-as-a-service company which they co-founded (called Kimonolabs) has been acquired by Palantir. Kimonolabs started as a Winter 2014 Y Combinator class startup. It recently raised USD5M in 2014, but this hasn’t help delaying their choice to shutter their doors for jobs at Palantir. Pratap explained that the startup has not […]