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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KnowBe4 reveals it accidentally hired a North Korean hacker

Cyber security awareness firm KnowBe4 warns of the dangers of nation-state hackers getting inside your perimeter.

SECURITY • Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Queensland Premier slams LNP’s deepfake TikTok video

Steven Miles calls deepfake video of him “a turning point for our democracy”.

TECH • Tue, 23 Jul 2024

Russian hackers caught targeting Ukrainian research organisations

CERT-UA reveals details of a Russian malware campaign backed by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

SECURITY • Mon, 22 Jul 2024

University of Queensland, AUSCERT, and IDCARE team up for Indo-Pacific cyber security program

The new program will provide cyber security and scam response support to microbusinesses in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

SECURITY • Mon, 22 Jul 2024

CrowdStrike’s chief security officer Shawn Henry admits, ‘We failed you’

CrowdStrike’s security chief has said that he and the company take 19 July’s cyber security patch failure personally.

SECURITY • Mon, 22 Jul 2024

The industry speaks: Everyone’s talking about the CrowdStrike outage

Industry experts and observers had a lot to say about last week’s CrowdStrike incident, but the long story made short is it was not a good look.

SECURITY • Mon, 22 Jul 2024

National Coordination Mechanism continues to meet over CrowdStrike outage

Australia – and the world – continues to deal with the fallout from Friday’s (19 July) cyber security outage that knocked millions of Windows PCs offline.

SECURITY • Mon, 22 Jul 2024

CrowdStrike CEO releases full statement after global PC outage

George Kurtz, founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, has apologised unreservedly after an update to its Falcon cyber security platform caused crashes and chaos around the world

SECURITY • Fri, 19 Jul 2024

BREAKING: Websites across Australia go dark after apparent CrowdStrike update causes Windows crashes

Devices at the ABC, Foxtel, the Commonwealth Bank and many more have been impacted by blue screens of death on Windows PCs around the country.

TECH • Fri, 19 Jul 2024