As part of the first CDR privacy assessment, the OAIC, which is a co-regulator of the CDR, examined ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, and Westpac as they were initial CDR data holders. Each bank was evaluated according to their compliance with privacy safeguard 1, which requires providers to have a CDR policy describing how they manage consumer data and implement internal practices, procedures, and systems to ensure compliance. There are 13 legally binding privacy safeguards under the CDR that set out consumers’ privacy rights and providers’ obligations when collecting and handling their data....

According to eMoney Advisor’s Investor Trend Survey, 34% of Americans ages 18 and older said they manage all of their own investments; however, 38% say they rely on their financial advisor to manage their entire portfolio. Twenty-three percent incorporate a hybrid model – working with a financial advisor and managing some of their own investments simultaneously. The eMoney AdvisorInvestor Trend Survey was comprised of a nationally representative sample of 2,000 Americans ages 18 and older and was fielded from December 15 to December 23, 2021....

The latest pair to bail on their in-person plans are chipmaker AMD and smartphone manufacturer OnePlus. As noted by our sister site CNET, they join a list of some of the biggest tech companies on the planet that have withdrawn physical attendance plans over fears relating to Omicron’s impact on spiking COVID-19 pandemic infection statistics. OnePlus was not an official exhibitor but it was planning to be in Las Vegas....

Multiple Ways for Fraudsters to Gain Access Consumer’s online accounts are prime targets for cybercriminals. Most contain a load of valuable personal information, such as names, addresses, dates of births and even credit card details. There are multiple ways for cybercriminals to get hold of these details, such as phishing, social engineering, hacking, credential stuffing… Every so often, e-commerce frauds start with a data breach. Dark web marketplaces have made personal information more accessible....

Red Hat’s findings in its The State of Enterprise Open Source report might settle a debate as old as the internet about whether open-source software is more or less secure than proprietary software, such as Windows. The argument for open-source software security has been that more people vetting publicly available source code can result in faster fixes compared to the ‘security through obscurity’ model – a term historically applied to proprietary software because the codebases could only be vetted by employees....

GitHub initially deposited its 21 terabyte 20 February 2020 snapshot of all public repositories shortly after the pandemic began, but none of its employees were there to witness or participate in it because of the pandemic. It left that job to local contractors. The mostly QR-encoded snapshot is stored on over 180 reels of film that have, since July, sat 250 meters deep within a mountain in Svalbard, Norway, in a former coal mine....

Also: Software Freedom Conservancy sues Vizio for GPL violations All the SFC requires is that Vizio makes this code available to the public as per its licenses. Vizio won’t hear of it. As Bradley M. Kuhn, the SFC’s Hacker-in-Residence, and Karen M. Sandler, the SFC’s Executive Director, wrote in a recent blog post, Vizio has not released the source code. Nor has the company proposed a Complete Corresponding Source (CCS) candidate for the SFC....

Now these flip phones have some serious-looking competition from a leading Chinese manufacturer in the shape of the Oppo Find N2 Flip, which has launched internationally following its debut in China late last year. Also: Best phone showdown: The top iPhone, Galaxy, and Pixel models stacked up Described on-stage in London on February 15 as ‘a new benchmark for flips’, Oppo’s first flip phone offers a large portrait-mode cover screen, a crease-free hinge for the 6....

“This will guarantee these operators the opportunity to acquire 10MHz of 900MHz band spectrum at the auction to support continuity of services. Optus and TPG Telecom rely heavily on their 900MHz holdings for their national mobile networks,” the minister said in a statement. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) previously said it was worried about the low-band holdings of Optus. “Optus’ ability to compete effectively in the mobile services market will likely be constrained if it does not acquire more sub-1GHz band spectrum in the 850/900MHz allocation,” the competition watchdog wrote in April....

In a bid to sweeten the deal for its customers that previously did not pay, Optus is offering those customers a AU$7 per month deal. “This compares favourably with other content streaming services that have emerged in the Australian landscape and is the first change to Optus Sport’s pricing since we first launched in 2016,” the company said in a blog post. At the same time, the company said all English Premier League (EPL) matches would be able to be streamed in 1080p....

Telenor, which is owned and controlled by the Norwegian government, has faced significant backlash for weeks after it announced a decision to sell its telecom business in Myanmar to a notorious Lebanese company called M1 Group for $105 million. News outlets in Myanmar have reported that M1 is already telling regulators in the country that it plans to sell 80% of Telenor Myanmar to Shwe Byain Phyu, a company with deep, longstanding ties to the country’s brutal military, according to local activist group Justice for Myanmar....

Look, mergers and acquisitions are always full of a lot of drama, and as a result, there are always people on the winning and losing teams. But Twitter has been under the proverbial microscope ever since Elon Musk announced his intention in May to purchase the company and there’s been a great deal of armchair quarterbacking of the off-and-on trainwreck that has resulted since. Also: Elon Musk promises not to make Twitter a ‘free-for-all hellscape’ And yes, some of us have raised the idea that we should be looking at creating Twitter alternatives....

Normally set at a retail price of around $3200, the laptop is now listed at $1859 (42% off) when you apply the default e-coupon WSDEALS. However, if you take this e-coupon out, apply WSDEAL13 and then THINK30ANNI, you end up saving far more. In total, you will then save $1840, or 57% off, bringing the total cost to $1369 – at least, before you add any extras. While there are many benefits to hybrid and remote working setups, one of the downsides is the wear and tear on your equipment....

If you’re looking to upgrade from standard bulbs to something smarter, you can take advantage of Best Buy’s current sale on Philips Hue products. You can pick up a Philips Hue smart lighting starter kit containing four smart bulbs and a bridge device (although the latter isn’t necessary for controlling your bulbs). The Philips Hue smart lighting starter kit is on sale for $84, a 30% discount or savings of $36 on the typical $119 retail price....

That may still be the case for Samsung fans and those who need a smartwatch that lasts for at least two days on a charge, but Google’s new Pixel Watch may be the best one for most people. We will soon be evaluating the Pixel Watch in detail for ourselves, alongside the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. For now, based on their specs and features alone, here are the clear and distinct reasons to purchase one wearable over the other....

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Tiobe, the compiler of a language popularity index, this week crowned Python as the most popular programming language, placing it ahead of Java, C and JavaScript for the first time in 20 years. The appeal of Python, a 30-year-old language, is it’s easy to learn, popular for machine learning and is backed by a big ecosystem of third-party software libraries that make it more useful in artificial intelligence, like Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch....

Paleohacks teaches people how to adopt the paleo diet into their lifestyles through various media products, from recipes and meal plans to podcasts and courses. The data breach originated from a cloud storage account Paleohacks was using to store the private data and personal details of over 70,000 customers and users. The company had failed to implement basic data security protocols. As a result, anyone whose data had been collected by Paleohacks was at risk of fraud, identity theft, hacking, and much more....

The breach originated in a technical database built on an Elasticsearch engine and was recording the daily activities of millions of Clubillion players around the world. Aside from leaking activity on the app, the breached database also exposed private user information. With this information publicly available, Clubillion’s users were vulnerable to fraud and various online attacks with potentially devastating results. Company Profile Clubillion is a free online casino game available for iOS and Android, offering players 30+ free slot games....

On a global scale, 13% of funds siphoned as a result of ransomware attacks were sent to users in Russia, more than any other region. Funds siphoned via other forms of cybercrime also go through Russia-based services, particularly concentrated in Moscow’s financial district, known to facilitate money laundering. Moscow City Raked in $700 Million of Illicit Funds Moscow’s financial district, home to a large swath of cryptocurrency businesses that receive hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency per quarter, has raked in over $700 million in illicit funds between 2019 and 2021....