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A cyber-attack on Australian utility company, Energy One Limited (EOL), could have international impact with the firm’s corporate systems in the UK, which was also affected.  The company, a global supplier of software and services to the wholesale energy market, confirmed that it had taken steps to limit the impact of the incident and had alerted both the Australian Cyber Security Centre and “certain UK authorities.”

According to a document signed by Andrew Bonwick, Board Chairman of EOL, it was

A group of academics has devised a "deep learning-based acoustic side-channel attack" that can be used to classify laptop keystrokes recorded using a nearby phone with 95% accuracy.  "When trained on keystrokes recorded using the video conferencing software Zoom, an accuracy of 93% was achieved, a new best for the medium," researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini, and Maryam Mehrnezhad said in a new study.

Side-channel attacks refer to a class of security exploits that aim to glean insights fr