Episode #234: Aussie Feds Introduce Digital Identity Legislation; Beijing Thwarted by Digital Tripwire; Gen Z's Battle with Online Scams

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This Day in Tech History

🇺🇸 Marcel Brown - St. Louis, Missouri

September 21st, 2003. After 14 years in space, eight of those as the first man-made object orbiting Jupiter, the unmanned NASA spacecraft, Galileo, is sent into the atmosphere of the giant planet.

Australian Federal Government Introduces Digital Identity Legislation

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan - Sydney, Australia

In an effort to reduce cybercrime, the Australian Federal Government has introduced digital identity legislation to Parliament. This will allow businesses to verify information about their customers without needing to collect information that would be useful to cybercriminals.

Beijing Thwarted by Digital Tripwire

🇺🇸 Katy Craig - San Diego, California

Imagine setting up a digital tripwire and then BAM! It catches a major hacking attempt in real-time. Well, that's exactly what happened at the U.S. State Department.  Two years ago, a sharp-eyed government IT analyst set up a custom warning system within the agency's network. This past June, that system alerted them to a Chinese-linked hack targeting their Microsoft email systems.

Gen Z's Battle with Online Scams

🇺🇸 Hillary Coover, Washington, DC

Gen Z, raised in the digital age, is surprisingly more vulnerable to online scams than their tech-unsavvy, Boomer grandparents. A Deloitte survey shows Gen Z members born from the late 1990s to the early 2010s are falling victim to phishing, identity theft, romance scams and cyber bullying at higher rates.