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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US government releases new National Cybersecurity Strategy paper: What’s inside?

The White House has released a far-reaching new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which aims to shake up the way the US and its allies deal with cyber threats while ...

SECURITY • Fri, 03 Mar 2023

Hacking made easy — just target young gamers, according to a new report

When we think of phishing and other online scams that involve a degree of social engineering, we often think of attacks with carefully designed fake sites, complex ...

CULTURE • Fri, 03 Mar 2023

Bitdefender releases MortalKombat ransomware decryptor

The MortalKombat ransomware only started delivering fatalities in December 2022, but a decryptor is already available.

TECH • Fri, 03 Mar 2023

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Australian Federal Police officially opens expanded Sydney forensics lab

Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC and AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw have opened the Australian Federal Police’s newly expanded forensics lab in Sydney today (2 ...

TECH • Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Op-Ed: Navigating the complexity of the future – ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a term that has seemingly graduated to dinner table conversation status over the last month. You can’t seem to go anywhere without hearing or reading about how ...

TECH • Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Canadian bookstore hack sees employee data compromised

Canadian bookstore chain Indigo was affected by a ransomware attack earlier in the month that forced it to take many of its retail systems offline. The company, which has ...

CULTURE • Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Students’ mental health records leaked online following US school district hack

The fallout from the hacking of a Los Angeles Unified School District last September continues, as the threat actor behind the ransomware attack has been posting student ...

GOVERNMENT • Thu, 02 Mar 2023

T-Mobile may have been hacked 100 times in the course of 2022

To say that T-Mobile has had a shocker of a couple of years when it comes to security is quite an understatement, but according to one security expert, the US telco’s ...

SECURITY • Wed, 01 Mar 2023

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Nigerian citizen sentenced to 11 years in prison for email scams

A Nigerian man who was the head of an international money laundering scheme has been sentenced to 11 years in a US federal prison and ordered to pay US$1.4 million in ...