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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Tasmanian government says data uncompromised after GoAnywhere breach

The Tasmanian government has said that the cyber attack it was affected by last week has not led to any data being compromised.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 03 Apr 2023

TMX Finance breach affects 4.8m customers

Canadian finance company TMX Finance has suffered a data breach that has resulted in the data of over 4.8 million customers being compromised.

SECURITY • Mon, 03 Apr 2023

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NHS at risk of cyber breach following Capita outage

Fears of a data breach at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) have erupted after computer systems at third-party provider Capita went down.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 03 Apr 2023

White House makes moves to secure space cyber security

The US has opened discussions into the importance of securing the cyber security of space and the industry. The White House held a forum with private industry leaders ...

SECURITY • Fri, 31 Mar 2023

US, AUS and allies unite to counter spyware abuse

A movement to introduce methods of countering the misuse of spyware has been launched by the US and some of its allies, including Australia.

GOVERNMENT • Fri, 31 Mar 2023

Microsoft Defender is flagging legitimate URLs as malicious

Microsoft Defender, the free anti-malware software that comes inbuilt into Windows, has been falsely flagging URLs as malicious.

TECH • Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Victorian real estate agency suffers cyber attack, SMEs increasingly targeted

Victorian real estate agency PH Property Bendigo said that it has suffered from a data breach, potentially affecting roughly 200 customers.

SECURITY • Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Toyota has been accidentally leaking customer data for 1.5 years

Japanese motoring titan Toyota has accidentally been leaking sensitive data for one and a half years, leaving its customers vulnerable to a barrage of phishing attacks ...

SECURITY • Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Meriton systems accessed by threat actors, 1,889 guests plus staff affected

Property development and hotel organisation Meriton has announced that it was hit by a cyber attack.

SECURITY • Wed, 29 Mar 2023