David Hollingworth

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David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.

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Exclusive: Qilin targets Queensland healthcare provider, but gets a bit… Confused

Cases of mistaken identity can happen to anyone, but you’d think at least hackers could work out who they’re hacking…

SECURITY • Wed, 10 Jun 2026

Report: Chinese activity on the rise as technology becomes the sector most targeted by cyber attacks

CrowdStrike’s 2026 Technology Threat Landscape Report reveals that what China cannot develop itself, it will gladly steal.

SECURITY • Wed, 10 Jun 2026

Virgin Australia rolls out ChatGPT flight search

Virgin Australia has launched flight search through ChatGPT as part of its partnership with OpenAI.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION • Wed, 10 Jun 2026

Tall tales and code: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

AI giant Anthropic has released new AI models for both general and private use; however, one expert has warned that “the model will cheerfully produce an exploit to break ...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION • Wed, 10 Jun 2026

AFCA to become Australia’s central scams complaints body under new prevention framework

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority will become the nation’s single external dispute resolution body for scam complaints, expanding its oversight to banks, ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Pentagon’s new Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command could be a good model for Australia

Cyber defence is increasingly a matter for government intervention, not just one that can be batted away with regulations and policing, one expert has said.

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Unfair cop: AFP warns Aussies after scam script uncovered in Cambodian fraud compound

The Australian Federal Police has uncovered a sophisticated scam script used by criminals operating from a Cambodian scam compound.

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Alert! Critical Check Point zero-day exploited in the wild, Qilin ransomware already at work

Hackers have been exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in Check Point Remote Access VPN, Mobile Access, and Spark Firewall products for at least a month.

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Exclusive: Hacker claims breach of Aussie travel agency FirstClass, 53k customers potentially impacted

The threat actor behind the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image hacks claims another Australian victim, and customer data ...

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Jun 2026

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Exclusive: Qilin targets Queensland healthcare provider, but gets a bit… Confused

Report: Chinese activity on the rise as technology becomes the sector most targeted by cyber attacks

Virgin Australia rolls out ChatGPT flight search

Tall tales and code: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

AFCA to become Australia’s central scams complaints body under new prevention framework

Pentagon’s new Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command could be a good model for Australia

Unfair cop: AFP warns Aussies after scam script uncovered in Cambodian fraud compound

Alert! Critical Check Point zero-day exploited in the wild, Qilin ransomware already at work

Exclusive: Hacker claims breach of Aussie travel agency FirstClass, 53k customers potentially impacted

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