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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New national cyber security coordinator releases statement on HWL Ebsworth hack

Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has said that his first priority in the new role will be to look into the circumstances surrounding the catastrophic hack ...

SECURITY • Wed, 05 Jul 2023

Ditch Google Analytics, says Swedish data protection agency

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, or IMY, has ordered four companies to cease using Google Analytics following an audit of the transfer of data between them ...

GOVERNMENT • Wed, 05 Jul 2023

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US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency starts up new CyberSentry program

CISA has just launched a new program designed to monitor cyber threats to critical infrastructure and use that information to correlate threat activity across a wide ...

SECURITY • Tue, 04 Jul 2023

Anonymous Sudan claims to have access to 30m Microsoft accounts

After a hack that successfully took down Microsoft’s OneDrive storage service last month, Anonymous Sudan now says it has the login credentials for 30 million Microsoft ...

SECURITY • Tue, 04 Jul 2023

Russian satellite internet operator taken down by possible Wagner hack

As the political and military fallout continues following the Wagner Group’s aborted mutiny last month, the cyber fallout is extensive as well. A Russian satellite ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 04 Jul 2023

SEC announces delay in finalising new cyber security disclosure rules

The US Securities Exchange Commission has said it is pushing back finalising changes to how cyber security incidents are disclosed to October 2023.

SECURITY • Mon, 03 Jul 2023

WordPress Ultimate Member plugin vulnerability being exploited in the wild

A third-party plugin used by more than 200,000 WordPress has been found to have an exploitable bug that — despite patching — is still being taken advantage of by bad ...

SECURITY • Mon, 03 Jul 2023

Aussie first anti-scam centre set up by federal government

The Australian federal government has established a new National Anti-Scam Centre to fight the growing number of scams inflicted on average consumers every day.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 03 Jul 2023

LockBit ransomware group claims TSMC scalp for $70m ransom, TSMC claims otherwise

In what could have been a nightmare for the global supply of semiconductors, the LockBit ransomware group claimed last week that it had struck the Taiwan Semiconductor ...

SECURITY • Mon, 03 Jul 2023

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New national cyber security coordinator releases statement on HWL Ebsworth hack

Ditch Google Analytics, says Swedish data protection agency

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency starts up new CyberSentry program

Anonymous Sudan claims to have access to 30m Microsoft accounts

Russian satellite internet operator taken down by possible Wagner hack

SEC announces delay in finalising new cyber security disclosure rules

WordPress Ultimate Member plugin vulnerability being exploited in the wild

Aussie first anti-scam centre set up by federal government

LockBit ransomware group claims TSMC scalp for $70m ransom, TSMC claims otherwise

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