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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Australian and Philippine law enforcement cracking down on scam centre ‘boiler rooms’

Cyber crime experts from the Australian Federal Police assist in the training of organised crime investigators and cyber police.

SECURITY • Wed, 02 Apr 2025

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More than half of Australian businesses are already using agentic AI

Australia is leading the way on the uptake of agentic AI, with productivity boosts expected to follow, according to a new PagerDuty survey.

TECH • Wed, 02 Apr 2025

Exclusive: KillSec claims ransomware attack on Qld IT services firm Hexicor

Hackers have shared screenshots of customer folders, digital certificates, and a list of hashed passwords and backup data.

SECURITY • Wed, 02 Apr 2025

‘Please hack me’: ‘Password’ remains the number one weakest password in Australia

Password, 123456, 123456789, and qwerty top the rather disappointing list of the most popular – and most breached – passwords used in Australia and worldwide.

SECURITY • Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Aussie winners of Rapid7’s global 2025 Partner Of The Year Awards revealed

Local winners, including Telstra, DGplex, Cythera, CyberRisk and ctrl:cyber, walk away with awards in the fifth year of Rapid7’s channel awards program.

SECURITY • Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Data uploads to generative AI apps surge thirtyfold in just 1 year

Source code, passwords, and intellectual property are all finding their way into GenAI, fuelling a growing risk of data breaches and IP theft.

SECURITY • Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Exclusive: Contractor Brighton Australia listed on SafePay’s ransomware leak site

Hackers claim to have stolen more than 160 gigabytes of data from a Sydney-based construction contractor.

SECURITY • Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Interview: Chris Krebs – nation-state hacking about ‘causing chaos’

SentinelOne’s chief intelligence and public policy officer and ex-CISA director discusses cyber crime, trends, the importance of cyber security as a whole-of-business ...

SECURITY • Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Macquarie University and Fujitsu partner up to offer students AI micro-credentials

A new university course will provide hands-on access to Fujitsu’s AutoML technology in order to address an Australian machine learning skills shortage.

SECURITY • Mon, 31 Mar 2025

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Australian and Philippine law enforcement cracking down on scam centre ‘boiler rooms’

More than half of Australian businesses are already using agentic AI

Exclusive: KillSec claims ransomware attack on Qld IT services firm Hexicor

‘Please hack me’: ‘Password’ remains the number one weakest password in Australia

Aussie winners of Rapid7’s global 2025 Partner Of The Year Awards revealed

Data uploads to generative AI apps surge thirtyfold in just 1 year

Exclusive: Contractor Brighton Australia listed on SafePay’s ransomware leak site

Interview: Chris Krebs – nation-state hacking about ‘causing chaos’

Macquarie University and Fujitsu partner up to offer students AI micro-credentials

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