Tag: australia
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A week in security (Oct 18 – Oct 24)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Multiple vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugin WP Fastest Cache.“Killware”: Is it just as bad as it sounds?REvil ransomware disappears after Tor services hijacked.Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued.q-logger skimmer keeps Magecart attacks going.How to delete your Snapchat account.High school student rickrolls entire school district, and gets praised.Chrome targeted by…
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A Coolant Leak The Likely Culprit For Aussie Tesla Battery Bank Fire
Followers of alternative energy technology will remember how earlier in the year a battery container at Tesla’s Megapack Australian battery grid storage plant caught fire. Lithium ion batteries are not the easiest to extinguish once aflame, but fortunately the fire was contained to only two of the many battery containers on the site. The regulator…
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Toyota Camry Driver Bizarrely Slams Head-On Into Aussie Trucker
The dashcam of a truck has captured the moment that the driver of an old Toyota Camry slammed head-on into the truck in South Australia. The accident was filmed last month and initially shows the cammer driving along the road. A large truck can be seen pulled over to the side of the opposite lane.…
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Aussie Company Unveils Hydrogen Pickup Based On The Ford Ranger
An Australian company by the name of H2X Global has just unveiled a Ford Ranger-based hydrogen pickup truck it hopes to begin selling next year. H2X Global was originally known as H2X Australia and last year, announced bold plans to produce and sell a host of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in Australia from mid-2021. However, as…
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Driven: 2021 Nissan Leaf e+ Is A Compelling EV, But Can It Justify The Price?
Electric vehicles don’t come much more iconic than the Nissan Leaf, the world’s first modern, mass-market EV. Its second generation, which was launched in Japan in late 2017, got a new flagship version, named the Leaf e+, in 2019. As car manufacturers continue to try and outdo each other by giving their EVs greater and…
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Australian Shoppers Can Now Reserve The All-Electric BMW i4
Order books for the all-electric BMW i4 have just been opened in Australia prior to local deliveries kicking off in the first quarter of 2022. To reserve an i4, shoppers simply need to place a $500 deposit and later in the year will have the opportunity to specify their vehicle with a dealership. While the…
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Tesla is one of Australia’s Most Trusted Automotive Companies
Tesla has officially cracked into the Top 3 in a list of the Ten Most Trusted Automotive Brands in Australia for 2020. Tesla finished 7th in 2019’s rankings. Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota was named the most trusted once again. Toyota also topped the 2019 list. The list is put together by Roy Morgan’s Annual Risk…
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Toyota Dominates As Australia’s Most Trusted Car Brand, Tesla Leapfrogs Mercedes
A recent poll of 14,383 Australians shows that Toyota is your most reliable automotive manufacturer Down Under, a thing which ’s also represented by the new automobile buying objective information based on Roy Morgan, in addition to sales statistics for 2019. Second spot on the most reliable car brands list is held by Mazda, followed…
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Aussie Safety Body Has Serious Concerns About Tesla’s Cybertruck
The head of this Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), the major crash test authority from Australia, has expressed serious concerns regarding how the controversial design of this Tesla Cybertruck could pose unnecessary dangers to citizens as well as other road users. Discussing with News, ANCAP chief executive James Goodwin explained the form and stainless…
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Fearing ‘Foreign Influence’, Australia Ends Chinese Language Program
State New South Wales is cutting off its own public school program ’s ties into a China-funded Mandarin language program. ” The nation ’s department of education announced Thursday the Confucius Institute program will be axed in the 13 schools in which it now operates. The Institute did not respond to a request for comment.…