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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Cloudflare’s Project Galileo celebrates 10 years of protecting at-risk orgs

Cloud company Cloudflare looks back on 10 years of providing free DDoS protection to public interest groups.

SECURITY • Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Op-Ed: Patties Foods’ ‘data leak’ proves cyber reporting needs to do better

Multiple media outlets have reported on a data breach impacting the owner of pie brand Four’n Twenty – but the breach may never have happened.

SECURITY • Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Chinese hackers observed targeting south-east Asian government organisation

Security researchers have outlined a highly organised nation-state campaign engaging in reconnaissance and espionage against a high-level government organisation.

SECURITY • Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Court throws out Latitude Financial hack proceedings

One self-represented man’s case against Latitude Financial over the March 2023 cyber attack has been thrown out.

SECURITY • Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Victorian Freight Specialists suffers alleged 800+GB data breach

A threat actor, known only as GhostR, claims hack on Australian logistics company Victorian Freight Specialists and posts data to clear web hacking forum.

SECURITY • Wed, 05 Jun 2024

BREAKING: MediSecure declares insolvency following massive data breach

FTI Consulting has been appointed as voluntary administrators of e-prescription firm MediSecure in the wake of a breach totalling 6.5 terabytes of data in May.

SECURITY • Wed, 05 Jun 2024

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Have I Been Pwned adds new dataset of 361m email addresses

Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website has been updated with a 122-gigabyte list scraped from “thousands of Telegram channels”.

SECURITY • Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Exclusive: Aussie rare-earth metals producer Northern Minerals confirms ransomware attack

The Bian Lian ransomware gang claims to have more than a terabyte of data belonging to the operators of the Browns Range mine in Western Australia.

SECURITY • Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Auckland’s oldest surviving department store hit by alleged ransomware attack

Smith & Caughey’s has been listed as a victim on LockBit’s ransomware leak site, and the threat actor is threatening to release data within hours.

SECURITY • Tue, 04 Jun 2024

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David Hollingworth

Cloudflare’s Project Galileo celebrates 10 years of protecting at-risk orgs

Op-Ed: Patties Foods’ ‘data leak’ proves cyber reporting needs to do better

Chinese hackers observed targeting south-east Asian government organisation

Court throws out Latitude Financial hack proceedings

Victorian Freight Specialists suffers alleged 800+GB data breach

BREAKING: MediSecure declares insolvency following massive data breach

Have I Been Pwned adds new dataset of 361m email addresses

Exclusive: Aussie rare-earth metals producer Northern Minerals confirms ransomware attack

Auckland’s oldest surviving department store hit by alleged ransomware attack

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