The Social Dilemma outs the greatest problem facing humankind
The Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary about big tech monetising your data. And if you thought that was all about serving so-called relevant ads to you th...
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TikTok times up
Got to love America. One day El Pres Trump says 'TikTok times up' citing that it is nothing more than a tool of the Chinese Communist Party to spy on US Citize...
Big Tech needs even bigger Digital Privacy regulation – ban data-harvesting
Big Tech – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (even little tech and throw Microsoft under the bus as well) could not exist in the same form today as d...
What is a Nation-State Attack? Why you should be very afraid
A nation-state attack is a calculated cyber-attack either by a foreign government or professional hackers financed by one.
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Trump bans TikTok and WeChat – It is very bad and you are out!
President Trump has formally banned TikTok and WeChat. He says both capture vast swaths of information that allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to spy on ...
TikTok data collection and how it monetises it
The TikTok data collection regimen is incredibly wide and deep. What is worse is that most people sign up without reading the privacy policy. Rule #1 – if you ...
Is TikTok a spy-bomb?
TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It...
Australia relentlessly attacked by Chinese state Naikon Group
For the past decade Australia, as well as Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Brunei have been relentlessly cyber-attacked by the Chines...
Can you trust the government’s COVID app?
Can you trust the upcomming COVID tracing app, which is due out in Australian in the next couple off weeks? Here's what we know so far....
Kaspersky – Cyberattacks during a pandemic
GadgetGuy participated in an interesting teleconference (using Microsoft teams) hosted by Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky Director of APAC Research Group. What is the...
Zoom’s serious security breaches affect working from home
The Zoom CEO has responded to allegations, sorry proven truths, of Zoom's serious security breaches affecting people working from home. But do we believe him, ...
Home Hackers – staying safe online when working at home
Home Hackers are becoming a real issue with cybercriminals taking advantage of the new work from home phenomenon (WFH).
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