The newly-minted NDIS Minister says he’s astonished system rorts have been allowed to go on unchecked under the Coalition.
Frauds are estimated to syphon around five per cent of the NDIS budget away from Australians with a genuine need for the service, costing taxpayers $1.45 billion annually.
NDIS Minister’s crack at Coalition as Labor readies up for fraud clampdown
Chinese hackers exploited years-old software flaws to break into telecom giants MIT Technology Review
Former Trump campaign manager to testify at ‘Big Lie’ hearing Reuters
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger says Trump lacks ‘mental capability’ to be president again if he believed election was stolen Chicago Tribune
DEMOCRACY DIES IN PETTY WOKE SQUABBLING: WaPo Editor Admonishes Staff to ‘Treat Each Other With Respect as Kindness’ as Numerous Messy Feuds Play Out on Twitter.
Flashback: Journalists Drink Too Much and are Bad at Managing Emotions, Study Finds. “A new study claims that journalists’ brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning—perhaps because they drink too much alcohol and not enough water. According to Business Insider, this broadly means that they have more trouble regulating their emotions, switching between tasks and showing flexible thinking.”
Inside the scam capital of the world where an army of cold callers pretend to be from Amazon, Microsoft or the tax office to hack the bank accounts of vulnerable Australians
With Google dominating search, the internet needs crawl neutrality - Fast Company: “Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and their exploration of the web is in the hands of one company. Most agree, this lack of competition in search is bad for individuals, communities and democracy. Unbeknownst to many, one of the biggest obstacles to competing in search is a lack of crawl neutrality. The only way to build an independent search engine and the chance to fairly compete against Big Tech is to first efficiently and effectively crawl the Internet. However, the web is an actively hostile environment for upstart search engine crawlers, with most websites only allowing Google’s crawler and discriminating against other search engine crawlers like Neeva’s. This critically important, yet often overlooked, issue has an enormous impact on preventing upstart search engines like Neeva from providing users with real alternatives, further reducing competition in search. Similar to net neutrality, today we need an approach to crawl neutrality. Without a change in policy and behavior, competitors in search will remain fighting with one hand tied behind our backs…”
Cloud computing: Here’s the security threat you should be most worried about - ZDNet: “Poor identity, access and credential management is the biggest cybersecurity challenge for cloud computing, after the shift to remote working has redefined the workplace and changed priorities around the use of cloud applications and services, warns new research. Cloud computing is now a business essential, but keeping your data and applications secure is vital. Find out more about cloud security in this ZDNet special report. According to a survey of 700 industry experts on security issues in the cloud industry carried out by the Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit that promotes best practices for cloud computing, insufficient identity, credential, access and key management for privileged accounts is a top concern around cloud cybersecurity.
The shift towards remote and hybrid working has changed how businesses and employees operate, no longer accessing office applications and productivity suites installed on their PCs at the office, but rather accessing the tools they need through software-as-a-service and cloud-based productivity suites – from any device, no matter where they are. That shift means managing access to resources and files is vital, especially when administrator or other high-level privilege access is required. But organisations are struggling to achieve this, particularly as many end users are now situated outside the company firewalls and traditional protections…”
