| Hi John, Australian Government data stored by American companies who have been certified as Protected cloud providers is not subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows Washington to obtain data stored overseas by American companies in the event that it is deemed to be needed by law enforcement authorities.
London's Metropolitan Police has shared information about a number of journalists, working for whistleblower website WikiLeaks, with prosecutors in the US for at least four years.
It is a measure of the contempt with which social media behemoth Facebook regards its users, that after an outage which spread well beyond a day, it can only issue a single tweet to explain what went wrong.
China was the second most prevalent country of origin, behind Nigeria, for cloud application attacks originating in the first quarter of 2019, with 26% of global attacks coming from Chinese IP addresses, a according to a newly released security report.
A researcher at security outfit McAfee says he has observed more than 100 exploits for a 19-year-old code execution vulnerability in the WinRar, a popular compression tool used on Windows.
Mobile telecommunications company OVO Mobile has launched a new mobile broadband product, Boom XL 500GB, which it has cast as a “real alternative” to the NBN and other fixed broadband offerings. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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