The future of trust and security
Sponsored by IBM. Trust and security have been a big challenge throughout the pandemic, but the events of 2022 have tested these ideas like never before.
Security
💡 Byteside Weekly: Optus says 'yes, we were hacked'
No bigger news than the Optus hack this week, but there's still plenty more to explore in this week's round up.
Scam involving fake QR codes found on parking meters
Several instances of scams using QR codes have been discovered in Texas. Always double-check before you check-in with a QR code.
Google kicks app with 5.8M downloads for stealing Facebook logins
Photo editors, horoscopes, and fitness apps amongst the genres found to be intercepting Facebook login data across nine apps.
First devil babies in 3,000 years
Digital ID creeping toward online verification systems, a ridesharing co-op launches in New York, HP buys HyperX plus more news from Compux.
Japan's lunar transformer is the cutest space mission yet
Japan sending a cute transforming ball bot to the moon, Have I Been Pwned going open source, a Google privacy mess and lots more.