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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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

Vulnerability Disclosure Program kept under wraps by NSW government

A UNSW research group submission has unearthed an NSW government cyber security consultation, which could lead to the state developing its first bug bounty program.

GOVERNMENT • Thu, 25 May 2023

Ukrainian hacktivists expose Russian officer who meddled with 2016 US election

The personal data of Russian military intelligence officer wanted by the FBI for interfering in the 2016 US elections has had his data posted publicly by a Ukrainian ...

SECURITY • Wed, 24 May 2023

Twitter users watch as their old tweets return from the dead

Twitter users are seeing their old tweets resurrected from the grave thanks to a new bug that is plaguing the social media platform.

SECURITY • Wed, 24 May 2023

Quad nations establish new secure-by-design principles to be followed by government

The Quad nations have established a new set of secure-by-design principles that will be applied to government and government contractors, in an effort to reduce the ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 23 May 2023

Home Affairs blocks ChatGPT use within government

The Department of Home Affairs has placed a block on ChatGPT for public servants, as it remains hopeful that a whole-of-government position on the AI tool will be ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 23 May 2023