Daniel Croft

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Born in the heart of Western Sydney, Daniel Croft is a passionate journalist with an understanding for and experience writing in the technology space. Having studied at Macquarie University, he joined Momentum Media in 2022, writing across a number of publications including Australian Aviation, Cyber Security Connect and Defence Connect. Outside of writing, Daniel has a keen interest in music, and spends his time playing in bands around Sydney.

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Ring camera privacy issues cost Amazon US$30m

Amazon is set to be slapped with a US$30 million (over $46 million) fine after it was alleged that its Ring video doorbell subsidiary failed to properly secure the ...

SECURITY • Thu, 01 Jun 2023

AI devs warn AI could lead to human extinction

Leaders of the AI industry are saying that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to extinction.

TECH • Wed, 31 May 2023

Aus government received user data from Meta and TikTok 3,654 times in 2022

Requests by Australian government authorities for user data from giants Meta and TikTok were met over 3,600 times last year, according to transparency reports from the ...

GOVERNMENT • Wed, 31 May 2023

360m records exposed in free VPN data breach

A data breach on a free VPN service has led to 360 million records being exposed to the public, according to a new report.

SECURITY • Tue, 30 May 2023

US Defense announces 2023 cyber strategy, takes notes from Ukraine conflict

Based on its learnings from the war in Ukraine, the US Department of Defense (DOD) has unveiled a new cyber security strategy.

SECURITY • Tue, 30 May 2023

Dark Frost botnet slams gaming industry with DDoS

A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) from a newly discovered botnet has been hitting the gaming industry hard.

TECH • Mon, 29 May 2023

Latitude reveals its cyber attack price tag

Latitude Financial has unveiled the price tag it faces following the major cyber attack it suffered back in March, unveiling the data of 7.9 million people.

SECURITY • Fri, 26 May 2023

China calls attack allegations by Five Eyes a ‘disinformation campaign’

China has responded to the accusations that it was behind a number of critical infrastructure attacks in the US, calling it a disinformation campaign.

SECURITY • Fri, 26 May 2023

4 in 5 organisations pay ransomware demands to retrieve data

Despite the heavy opposition to paying threat actors, ransomware is working, with 80 per cent of organisations paying hackers ransom to get their data back, despite 41 ...

SECURITY • Thu, 25 May 2023

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