Episode #226: Australian Companies Suffers Data Breach Due to Third Party Compromise; Can You Trust That Picture?; Is Your Phone Listening To You; This Day in Tech History

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Australian Companies Suffers Data Breach Due to Third Party Compromise🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗A notorious ransomware gang has compromised a number of Australian companies and are extorting them. They have claimed responsibility over attacks of several Australian companies in the health, real estate, and law sectors, and have stolen at least 4.95 terabytes of data.Can You Trust That Picture?🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California ↗Google Cloud and Vertex AI are rolling out SynthID, a groundbreaking tool designed to watermark and identify AI-generated images. As the landscape of AI-generated content expands, tools like SynthID are becoming crucial in the fight for digital authenticity. Is Your Phone Listening To You🇺🇸 Hillary Coover, Washington, DC ↗40 percent of Americans who have a smartphone believe that their phone is listening to them without their permission. They're not entirely wrong. Why should you care? The more identifiable data corporations collect on you, the larger your susceptibility to a cybersecurity incident.This Day, September 10, 11 in Tech History🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗From Sourced Network Productions in Washington, DC, it's 5:05. I'm hillary Coover. Today is Monday, September 11th, 2023. Here's the full story behind today's cybersecurity and open-source headlines.