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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Google takes down raft of Chinese influence operations

Google’s Threat Analysis Group has canned thousands of accounts across its platform for spreading disinformation throughout south-east Asia and Europe.

CULTURE • Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Ukrainian military targeted by info-stealing campaign

Luhansk-based hackers known as Vermin have renewed a malicious cyber campaign after two years of inactivity.

SECURITY • Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Exclusive: Panasonic Australia confirms cyber incident following Akira ransomware claim

The Akira ransomware gang has said it hacked the Australian arm of the consumer tech firm, but Panasonic says no data has been stolen.

SECURITY • Fri, 07 Jun 2024

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

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

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Google takes down raft of Chinese influence operations

Ukrainian military targeted by info-stealing campaign

Exclusive: Panasonic Australia confirms cyber incident following Akira ransomware claim

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

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

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