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| Coronavirus Australia update live: AFP called in over 'fake' Covid-19 app social media posts – latest news | Coronavirus Australia update live: AFP called in over 'fake' Covid-19 app social media posts – latest news |
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| Greg Hunt says illegal social media posts claiming to monitor locations are a hoax and ‘deeply unAustralian. This is about life and death.’ Follow live | Greg Hunt says illegal social media posts claiming to monitor locations are a hoax and ‘deeply unAustralian. This is about life and death.’ Follow live |
| Good afternoon everyone.Just on the claims from Angus Taylor’s office that there is a difference between accessing a report and downloading it, that’s not entirely the case. | |
| The City of Sydney website itself refers to links of the annual report file as a “download”. While technically his office may not have right-clicked and saved the file, it would have still recorded the access of the document as a download – it would have made a copy of it on Taylor’s or the staffer’s computer, albeit not permanently. | |
| My computer, which has been the victim of not one, but two tea spills today is on 1%, so I shall hand you over to Josh Taylor for the next little while. | My computer, which has been the victim of not one, but two tea spills today is on 1%, so I shall hand you over to Josh Taylor for the next little while. |
| Thanks again for joining me today. I’ll be back tomorrow. As always, take care of you. | Thanks again for joining me today. I’ll be back tomorrow. As always, take care of you. |
| The interim NRL CEO Andrew Abdo is holding a press conference on those proposed sanctions: | The interim NRL CEO Andrew Abdo is holding a press conference on those proposed sanctions: |
| Social media has not been great for footballers | Social media has not been great for footballers |
| Coles is lifting its purchase limits on toilet paper. | Coles is lifting its purchase limits on toilet paper. |
| Nature is beautiful. | Nature is beautiful. |
| Australia’s most popular premier (according to the most recent Newspoll) Mark McGowan is giving his daily update – after yesterday’s public holiday polo, he is back in a suit. | Australia’s most popular premier (according to the most recent Newspoll) Mark McGowan is giving his daily update – after yesterday’s public holiday polo, he is back in a suit. |
| Today, McGowan is focused on schools: | Today, McGowan is focused on schools: |
| Energy minister Angus Taylor today continued to insist his office had not downloaded material used in a botched attack on Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore last September. | Energy minister Angus Taylor today continued to insist his office had not downloaded material used in a botched attack on Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore last September. |
| Taylor is sticking to his statement of October 25 in which he rejected “outrageous accusations made against me by the Labor Party”. | |
| A spokesman for Taylor told Guardian Australia Tuesday there was a difference between a document being downloaded and being “accessed”. | A spokesman for Taylor told Guardian Australia Tuesday there was a difference between a document being downloaded and being “accessed”. |
| And the spokesman said the minister had not refused to be interviewed by NSW police, as suggested in news reports, but had cooperated throughout their inquiry into the affair. He said police had acknowledged this in their response to a question on notice from the NSW parliament. | And the spokesman said the minister had not refused to be interviewed by NSW police, as suggested in news reports, but had cooperated throughout their inquiry into the affair. He said police had acknowledged this in their response to a question on notice from the NSW parliament. |
| “We have always maintained that the report (containing exaggerated travel expenses for the council) wasn’t downloaded,” said the spokesman in a statement. | “We have always maintained that the report (containing exaggerated travel expenses for the council) wasn’t downloaded,” said the spokesman in a statement. |
| “As per minister Taylor’s statement on October 25 the report was accessed from the City of Sydney website and printed directly from the site, which evidence provided by the department in response to (federal parliament) questions on notice support.” | |
| This had also been confirmed by NSW police, the spokesman said. | |
| This will be a big disappointment for a lot of people who are really, really hoping the government will change its mind and add them to the supplement list. | This will be a big disappointment for a lot of people who are really, really hoping the government will change its mind and add them to the supplement list. |
| For the record, the Guardian has approached Angus Taylor for comment and is yet to hear back | For the record, the Guardian has approached Angus Taylor for comment and is yet to hear back |
| Hot on the heels of Josh Addo-Carr and Latrell Mitchell’s police fines for breaching social distancing regulations, another NRL star is under scrutiny with photos emerging of Nathan Cleary posing with a group of women. | Hot on the heels of Josh Addo-Carr and Latrell Mitchell’s police fines for breaching social distancing regulations, another NRL star is under scrutiny with photos emerging of Nathan Cleary posing with a group of women. |
| The photos, broadcast by the Nine Network, show the Panthers halfback with five other people, reportedly on Anzac Day. | The photos, broadcast by the Nine Network, show the Panthers halfback with five other people, reportedly on Anzac Day. |
| The State of Origin representative player reportedly said the group were his friends and stayed just a short time at his house before leaving. | The State of Origin representative player reportedly said the group were his friends and stayed just a short time at his house before leaving. |
| Cleary, the Nine report added, has apologised to his teammates and club but he could face sanctions with the AAP reporting the NRL is investigating the matter. | Cleary, the Nine report added, has apologised to his teammates and club but he could face sanctions with the AAP reporting the NRL is investigating the matter. |
| Addo-Carr and Mitchell were fined $1,000 after photos showed them flouting physical distancing measures with a group of men on a farm at the weekend. | Addo-Carr and Mitchell were fined $1,000 after photos showed them flouting physical distancing measures with a group of men on a farm at the weekend. |
| ACT Health has put out its latest update – there are no new cases: | ACT Health has put out its latest update – there are no new cases: |
| Zoom had a bit of a bad reputation early on in the pandemic because of security concerns and people Zoombombing in, but Microsoft’s version of the app, Teams, has now had its own problem, involving gifs. | Zoom had a bit of a bad reputation early on in the pandemic because of security concerns and people Zoombombing in, but Microsoft’s version of the app, Teams, has now had its own problem, involving gifs. |
| Teams has had a similar boom in usage in the past two months, with around 44 million active users on the service worldwide.Security researchers at Cyberark alerted the company last month that they were able to get control of Team users’ accounts by sending them a gif. | Teams has had a similar boom in usage in the past two months, with around 44 million active users on the service worldwide.Security researchers at Cyberark alerted the company last month that they were able to get control of Team users’ accounts by sending them a gif. |
| They would see the gif but wouldn’t be aware it had made it possible for the person to take over their account. | They would see the gif but wouldn’t be aware it had made it possible for the person to take over their account. |
| Microsoft patched the issue last week, but it is another reminder of the need for these video conferencing apps to be as secure as possible. | Microsoft patched the issue last week, but it is another reminder of the need for these video conferencing apps to be as secure as possible. |