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Medibank hit with class action over data hack

Health insurer Medibank has been hit with a class action claim launched on behalf of customers affected by a major data theft last year.

AAP

Firefighter applicants at risk as cyberattack deepens

Criminals might have stolen private information from firefighter applications as the full extent of personal data stolen in a cyber hack becomes clear.

AAP

Biden expected to assail Silicon Valley Big Tech in State of the Union address

President Joe Biden will reportedly attack Big Tech in his State of the Union address Tuesday in a bid to unite lawmakers in Washington concerned about the industry’s unprecedented influence and impact on all facets of American life.

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Warning to Irish parents after sexual images end up in primary school kids' Snapchat group

Some of the kids found the images disturbing and spoke up to their teachers

Irish Mirror

Greg Abbott announces plan to ban TikTok on Texas government devices to stop ‘security risks’

Plan also singles out WeChat and Kaspersky

The Independent UK

Gov. Abbott announces plan to ban TikTok on all state-issued devices in Texas

DALLAS — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday a statewide plan to ban TikTok on state-issued devices.

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Dating app assaults brought before top law officers

Australia's attorneys-general have been tasked with coming up with new reforms to address sexual violence stemming from dating apps.

AAP

Florida hospital taking expectant moms, delaying surgeries

A major hospital system in northern Florida is seeing clinic patients again, days after a security problem forced it to take its network offline

The Independent UK

Cybersecurity expert warns of scams targeting Facebook and Instagram accounts

While many people have become wary and educated on what to look out for, criminals have been developing new ways to trick victims

Irish Mirror

No evidence global ransomware hack was by state entity, Italy says

Global ransomware activity that targeted thousands of computer servers in Italy and other countries was probably the handiwork of criminal hackers and not a state or state-like entity, the Italian government said on Monday.

Reuters

The latest Facebook and Instagram scams and how to avoid them

Social media users need to be constantly on their guard

Wales Online

Delete TikTok from your phones to keep your data safe from hackers, says MP

Tory Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested the video-sharing platform is linked to China’s efforts to build a “tech totalitarian state”

Daily Mirror

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The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Reuters

Italy warns hackers targeting known server vulnerability

Thousands of computer servers have been targeted by a global ransomware hacking attack targeting VMware ESXi servers, Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) said on Sunday, warning organisations to take action to protect their systems.

Daily Record

Warning as experts say that your smart speaker is 'always' listening

While smart speakers are convenient tools, they can open the door to some unwanted hassle.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Says Iranians Hacked France's Charlie Hebdo

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft's Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who called themselves "Holy Souls," were Iranian cybersecurity firm Emennet…

Bangkok Post

Novel pact expected to create village digital volunteers

The Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission (ONDE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with nine organisations to create digital volunteers to promote accessibility and understanding of digital technology for local communities nationwide.

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The Independent UK

Feds say cyberattack caused suicide helpline's outage

A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials tell The Associated Press

The Independent UK

Major Florida hospital hit by possible ransomware attack

A major hospital system in northern Florida says it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries after an security problem with information technology

Reuters

Iran behind hack of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Microsoft says

An Iranian government-backed hacking team allegedly stole and leaked private customer data belonging to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, security researchers at Microsoft said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Microsoft: Iran unit behind Charlie Hebdo hack-and-leak op

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back in early January with a hack-and-leak campaign intent on striking fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database

Edinburgh Live

Google warning as millions of Android users urged to delete 12 popular apps

Android owners are being warned by Google to delete a host of popular apps, as detections statistics discovered that these platforms showed cybersecurity threats.

The Times of India

Gujarat court refuses bail to man in Rs 2.69 crore sextortion case

AHMEDABAD: A city sessions court in Ahmedabad has denied regular bail to a resident of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, Talim Khan (22), who is accused of extorting Rs 2.69 crore from a Navrangpura businessman by luring him in a sex video clip and blackmailing him by posing as a CBI officer.

ABC News

More than 11,000 employees, students and former staff affected by cyber attack, QUT says

The cyber attack was identified after QUT campus printers began to spit out bulk ransomware notes, which led the university to shut down a number of its IT systems as a precaution.

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