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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Auckland Transport suffers ‘technical outage’ as Medusa ransomware gang claims hack

A New Zealand transport service has confirmed its ticketing systems were disrupted on Tuesday (19 September) by a “cyber incident”, but services are coming back online ...

SECURITY • Tue, 19 Sep 2023

Australian government sets up 6-month AI taskforce

The federal government has announced the creation of a multi-agency taskforce to examine the benefits – and potential risks – of artificial intelligence (AI) for the ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 19 Sep 2023

Microsoft accidentally leaks 38TB of internal data on GitHub

The Redmond giant is having a shocker of a time when it comes to security, with its latest own goal exposing 30,000 internal Teams messages.

SECURITY • Tue, 19 Sep 2023

National cyber security coordinator concludes formal response to HWL Ebsworth hack

Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has declared that law firm HWL Ebsworth is now in a position to manage its response to a hack that saw multiple ...

SECURITY • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

Op-Ed: Understanding AI-assisted cyber attack challenge for OT and unmanaged devices

Malicious code is not difficult to find these days, even for OT, IoT and other embedded and unmanaged devices.

CULTURE • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

Tesserent shareholders vote in favour of Thales Australia acquisition

Tesserent held a share scheme meeting today (18 September) to determine the outcome of its acquisition by Thales Australia.

SECURITY • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

AUCloud launches free weekly threat intelligence report for Australian businesses

Security company AUCloud has announced a new weekly report aimed at educating Aussie businesses about cyber threats.

CULTURE • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

TikTok under siege from Elon Musk-themed crypto scams

Deepfakes of Elon Musk promising untold riches in cryptocurrency are all over TikTok at the moment, linked to either the billionaire himself or his related projects and ...

SECURITY • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

Dymocks pins data breach on third-party ‘partner’

Dymocks has released an update on its 6 September data breach, pointing to “unauthorised access” to the systems of one of its third-party partners.

SECURITY • Mon, 18 Sep 2023

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David Hollingworth

Auckland Transport suffers ‘technical outage’ as Medusa ransomware gang claims hack

Australian government sets up 6-month AI taskforce

Microsoft accidentally leaks 38TB of internal data on GitHub

National cyber security coordinator concludes formal response to HWL Ebsworth hack

Op-Ed: Understanding AI-assisted cyber attack challenge for OT and unmanaged devices

Tesserent shareholders vote in favour of Thales Australia acquisition

AUCloud launches free weekly threat intelligence report for Australian businesses

TikTok under siege from Elon Musk-themed crypto scams

Dymocks pins data breach on third-party ‘partner’

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