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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Victoria’s largest childcare org discloses data breach, ID document scans stolen

The largest childcare provider in the state of Victoria has disclosed a cyber attack on its systems that led to the exfiltration of customer data.

SECURITY • Fri, 31 May 2024

BBC discloses data breach affecting 25,000

The BBC has revealed that it suffered a cyber incident in which an unauthorised party accessed some of its files.

SECURITY • Fri, 31 May 2024

Cyber Wardens warns Ticketmaster breach aftermath could harm small businesses

Cyber Wardens has weighed in on the Ticketmaster breach that was disclosed this week, warning of the dangers that an attack’s fallout could present to small businesses

CULTURE • Thu, 30 May 2024

Hacker puts the heat on Cooler Master, claims 103GB of data stolen

A threat actor has claimed to have breached the website of major computer hardware manufacturer Cooler Master, exfiltrating the data of over 500,000 people.

SECURITY • Thu, 30 May 2024

Aussies affected in alleged Shell fuel data breach

Major oil and gas multinational Shell has reportedly suffered a data breach affecting almost a dozen countries.

SECURITY • Thu, 30 May 2024

Wayback under attack: 3-day DDoS hits Internet Archive site

The Internet Archive, best known for running the Wayback Machine, has revealed that it has been fighting off distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for three days

SECURITY • Wed, 29 May 2024

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ASD urges early incident intel sharing following LockBit takedown lessons

Australia is currently looking at mechanisms for the effective sharing of incident response (IR) intelligence after the LockBit takedown earlier this year demonstrated ...

GOVERNMENT • Wed, 29 May 2024

Spyware firm ‘out of business’ after data leaked on own site by hacker

A cyber attack on spyware app pcTattletale has killed the business, according to the company’s founder.

SECURITY • Wed, 29 May 2024

2.8m affected in Sav-Rx data breach

A major US prescription management firm has disclosed that a data breach on its systems resulted in the theft of data belonging to 2.8 million people.

SECURITY • Tue, 28 May 2024

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