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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eSafety and the AFP want parents to talk about online safety with their kids

With children returning to school at the end of January, the Australian Federal Police and the eSafety commissioner are taking the chance to promote online safety for ...

TECH • Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

Imagine for a moment that you work as a cyber security professional at one of the major Australian companies that suffered a high-profile cyber breach last year.

SECURITY • Fri, 27 Jan 2023

North Korean Lazarus Group definitely behind Horizon bridge crypto theft, FBI confirms

Last year, threat actors possibly connected to the authoritarian Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were thought to have stolen US$100 million in cryptocurrency from ...

CULTURE • Fri, 27 Jan 2023

How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

Earlier this month, Australian data security company archTIS published a fascinating blog post on how to keep intellectual property and military secrets secure, ...

SECURITY • Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Duolingo is investigating a data-scraping incident following a post on a well-known data breach forum offering the data of Duolingo users for sale.

SECURITY • Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

Video games, defence, education … cyber security covers them all. And now we can add Taylor Swift to the list of all things cyber, as ticket seller Live Nation blames ...

SECURITY • Wed, 25 Jan 2023

AFP releases online cyber safety picture book for kids

Children continue to be a focus of cyber safety, with the Australian Federal Police being the latest organisation to address the issue.

CULTURE • Wed, 25 Jan 2023

GoTo reveals extent of November breach: Backups and encryption keys affected

SaaS and remote working specialist GoTo has just announced more details about a data breach that occurred in November 2022 — and it is pretty bad.

SECURITY • Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Riot Games hack gets worse, League of Legends source code confirmed breached

It now appears that the Riot Games data breach is — as seems usual these days — a lot worse than initially reported. The developer revealed overnight that the source code ...

SECURITY • Wed, 25 Jan 2023

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David Hollingworth

eSafety and the AFP want parents to talk about online safety with their kids

Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

North Korean Lazarus Group definitely behind Horizon bridge crypto theft, FBI confirms

How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

AFP releases online cyber safety picture book for kids

GoTo reveals extent of November breach: Backups and encryption keys affected

Riot Games hack gets worse, League of Legends source code confirmed breached

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