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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Meta denies Instagram breach impacting 17m accounts

An alleged data breach was actually scraped in 2022 and originally “leaked” in 2023, but still includes more than 6 million email addresses.

SECURITY • Mon, 12 Jan 2026

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most cyber secure country of them all?

Research: Australia ranks eighth in the list of most cyber secure countries, but Singapore takes top spot.

SECURITY • Sun, 11 Jan 2026

Deception as defence: Turning the tables on modern attackers

Deception technologies offer CISOs a powerful alternative to traditional defences: confusing, trapping, and exposing adversaries before real damage is done.

SECURITY • Sun, 04 Jan 2026

Industry predictions for 2026: How are threat actors’ tactics, techniques and strategies going to evolve?

Part 3: Here’s what industry experts believe the bad guys are going to be doing to make network defenders’ lives harder in the new year – buckle in!

SECURITY • Tue, 30 Dec 2025

Industry predictions for 2026: It’s the new year soon, so what new ideas should organisations be adopting?

Part 4: As the light dawns on a new year, businesses in Australia and abroad will need to adapt to an array of changing and emerging technologies and trends.

SECURITY • Mon, 29 Dec 2025

Op-Ed: Australia’s National AI Plan looks good on paper, but where are the teeth?

Ryan Zahrai, founder and principal lawyer of Zed Law, questions the government’s failure to include binding obligations into its vaunted plan.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 29 Dec 2025

Industry predictions for 2026: What cyber criminal trends are we expecting?

Part 2: Here’s what industry experts believe the bad guys are going to be doing to make network defenders’ lives harder in the new year – buckle in!

SECURITY • Mon, 29 Dec 2025

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The boardroom breakthrough: How CISOs are rewriting the language of risk

CISOs are learning to frame cyber risk as a business problem, not an IT one – and getting attention from the boardroom by doing so.

SECURITY • Sun, 28 Dec 2025

Industry predictions for 2026: The year is set to ring in a raft of transformations, but which ones matter the most?

Part 3: As the light dawns on a new year, business in Australia and abroad will need to adapt to an array of changing and emerging technologies and trends.

SECURITY • Sun, 28 Dec 2025