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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Alert! ACSC warns of Akira ransomware activity targeting Australian organisations

The Aussie cyber agency sounds the alarm over an uptick in malicious activity targeting a year-old vulnerability in Gen 5, Gen 6, and Gen 7 SonicWall devices.

SECURITY • Thu, 11 Sep 2025

Law Council of Australia calls on government to subsidise small business cyber security

Australia’s top legal body is pleased with the government’s Cyber Security Strategy progress, but it says more can be done to support those hardest hit by cyber crime

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 09 Sep 2025

Dynatrace adds itself to list of companies affected by Salesloft Drift compromise

IT observability firm Dynatrace admits its Salesforce data was compromised as part of a widespread supply chain hack.

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Sep 2025

Plex contacting users following ‘security incident’

The media streaming platform warns users of an “unauthorised third party” accessing customer data and recommends changing passwords.

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Sep 2025

18 popular JavaScript code packages hacked to spread malware

Multiple npm packages have been compromised by a phishing attack in an attempt to spread crypto malware to billions of victims.

SECURITY • Tue, 09 Sep 2025

Qualys becomes latest IT security company caught up in Salesloft Drift hacking campaign

Qualys joins Zscaler, PagerDuty, Cloudflare, and hundreds more companies whose customer data was compromised by the Salesforce-linked hack.

SECURITY • Mon, 08 Sep 2025

Op-Ed: More than an HR issue – the business risks of cyber burnout

Once perceived as a nice-to-have, cyber security is now recognised as an important business function.

SECURITY • Mon, 08 Sep 2025

Aussie university forced to spend big in wake of cyber attacks

Western Sydney University contractor costs blow out to $53 million following a string of data breaches.

SECURITY • Mon, 08 Sep 2025

Salesloft Drift hack dates back to a March compromise of the company’s GitHub account

Salesloft and Mandiant continue to investigate the hack that compromised some of the globe’s biggest cyber security firms, as SpyCloud joins the victim line-up.

SECURITY • Mon, 08 Sep 2025

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David Hollingworth

Alert! ACSC warns of Akira ransomware activity targeting Australian organisations

Law Council of Australia calls on government to subsidise small business cyber security

Dynatrace adds itself to list of companies affected by Salesloft Drift compromise

Plex contacting users following ‘security incident’

18 popular JavaScript code packages hacked to spread malware

Qualys becomes latest IT security company caught up in Salesloft Drift hacking campaign

Op-Ed: More than an HR issue – the business risks of cyber burnout

Aussie university forced to spend big in wake of cyber attacks

Salesloft Drift hack dates back to a March compromise of the company’s GitHub account

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