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When smart home assistants become tools of domestic abuse
A smart speaker can seem like an ordinary household convenience. It plays music, sets timers, answers questions, controls lights and adds items to a shopping…
Staying anonymous with Tor without killing your speed
Tor has a reputation. People hear about it and immediately picture sluggish page loads, websites that fail to render, and a browser that feels like it has been…
What Your Airline App Knows Beyond Your Boarding Pass
An airline app appears to have a simple job: display a booking, issue a boarding pass and tell you when to head to the gate. In practice, it can become a small…
Why social security numbers should be replaced by privacy-first identifiers
A single permanent number is attractive because it appears to make identity simple. Employers, banks, government agencies and online services can use the same…
Taking Control of Cross-Device Tracking by Ad Networks
Ad networks have spent the last decade stitching your phone, laptop, smart TV and tablet into a single profile that follows you from a Sydney commute to a…
Virtual phone numbers for verification hide real security risks
Every signup form eventually arrives at the same request: a phone number. Whether the destination is a banking app in Sydney, a delivery service in Brisbane,…
What the Cyber Resilience Act Means for IoT Device Security
The average Australian home now contains dozens of connected devices, from smart TVs and fridges to doorbell cameras and voice assistants. Many of these…
How to Detect and Remove Keyloggers from Your Computer
A keylogger is software or hardware that records keystrokes and sends, stores, or exposes them to someone else. Criminals use keyloggers to capture passwords,…
What EV charging data reveals about Australian drivers
An electric vehicle seems to offer a cleaner break from petrol culture: fewer visits to service stations, quieter streets and a dashboard increasingly shaped…
How loyalty cards turn everyday shopping into a data trail
A loyalty card looks like a simple bargain: scan a plastic card or phone app, collect points and receive a few dollars off the weekly shop. In Australia, that…