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Still no date for tabling of Australia's mandatory data breach laws
The Register Data breach notification has been on and off the agenda for years: it landed briefly in 2013 before an election got in the way; the Abbott government abandoned the idea in June 2014, then an inquiry put it back on the table; and after languishing, it … |
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Zero-day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site
The Register Updated A dangerous zero-day vulnerability has been found in popular cloud password vault LastPass, which The Register has been told can completely compromise user accounts. Many millions of people can right now be compromised by merely visiting a … LastPass unpatched zero-day vulnerability gives hackers access to your account Zero-day flaw leaves LastPass vulnerable to attack [UPDATE: it's fixed] LastPass password manager “zero-day” bug hits the news |
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You know how that data breach happened? Three words: eBay, hard drives
The Register Users are unwittingly selling sensitive and unencrypted data alongside their devices through the likes of eBay and Craigslist. Secure data erasure firm Blancco Technology Group (BTG) purchased 200 second-hand hard disk drives and solid state drives … Data Left Behind on Two-Thirds of Drives Sold on eBay |
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Stuxnet was the opening shot of decades of non-stop cyber warfare
The Register The use of such cyber-weapons in the future, however, may mean more countries end up in low-level conflicts more or less continuously. Military strategists are still grappling with the domain of cyber–warfare, which is particularly fraught because of … |