Episode #232: Australia to Create Six Cyber Shields as part of Cyber Strategy; Cyber Adversaries Place their Bets Against the House; Cyber War Crimes; TikTok Tracks US Employees; This Day in Tech History

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Australia to Create Six Cyber Shields as part of Cyber Strategy

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗

As part of a coordinated national action plan, the Australian Government will release a revised Cybersecurity Strategy later this year around six cyber shields.

Cyber Adversaries Place their Bets Against the House

🇺🇸 Mark Miller - White Rock, New Mexico↗

MGM Resorts and Caesar's aren't bragging about their losses right now. According to numerous reports, a major hack against the casinos was started with a social engineering scheme against an outsourced IT support vendor on September 11. Now that this type of hack has been proven to work, it's only a matter of time before the next set of casino attacks roll a big fat 7 against the house.

Cyber War Crimes

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California ↗

 The International Criminal Court, or ICC, is stepping into the digital age and setting its sights on cybercrimes that breach international law.  In a world where the battlefield is as likely to be a server farm as a desert, the ICC is saying enough is enough.

TikTok Tracks US Employees

🇺🇸 Hillary Coover, Washington, DC ↗

 Is TikTok's office attendance tracking a glimpse into the future of workplace surveillance? TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, unveiled an internal app called MyRTO.

This Day, September 19, in Tech History

🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗

September 19th, 2006. Microsoft began testing its new video sharing service, Soapbox, which they hoped would compete with YouTube. Clearly, it did not compete very well because, personally, I had never heard of Soapbox, and probably neither did you.