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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Exclusive: SIA Medical Centre confirms it is investigating cyber incident involving patient data

A Victorian medical centre is responding to a ransomware incident after the Rhysida cyber extortion group claimed to have thousands of patient records.

SECURITY • Tue, 18 Aug 2026

Exclusive: Patient data potentially compromised in alleged dental clinic data breach

INC Ransom cyber extortion group shares patient X-rays, specialist reports, and correspondence on the dark web after claiming a breach of a Victorian dental clinic.

SECURITY • Tue, 18 Aug 2026

Report: AI reasoning gains fail to eliminate racial and gender bias in medical research

Flinders University researchers found that next-generation reasoning models continued to reproduce demographic stereotypes when generating fictional patient cases, ...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION • Tue, 18 Aug 2026

Hack on! Private US companies given presidential go-ahead to target cyber criminals

A Trump memorandum directing private sector companies to target transnational criminal organisations is a “pretty big shift in US cyber policy”, an expert has said.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 17 Aug 2026

Concerns raised about new military phone-cracking tech proposed for NSW Police Force

Senator David Shoebridge has called out the introduction of new technology systems and digital evidence management to the NSW Police Force, after alleged use by the ...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION • Mon, 17 Aug 2026

Hello, who’s this? RingCentral discloses data breach in wake of ShinyHunters hack claims

At least 1.6 million customers could be impacted by a hack after cyber extortionists publish more than 600 gigabytes of data on the dark web.

SECURITY • Mon, 17 Aug 2026

CrowdStrike expands Project QuiltWorks to bring AI protection to SMBs

The cyber security company is extending its AI security initiative through distributors, cloud marketplaces, and MSPs.

SECURITY • Mon, 17 Aug 2026

Exclusive: Australian truck trailer company Midland among dozens of victims listed by Cl0p cyber extortion group

Prolific hacking group Cl0p has listed more than 40 victims in a single day, including Philips, General Electric, Tristar, and Shell.

SECURITY • Fri, 14 Aug 2026

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In conversation with CrowdStrike’s Fabio Fratucello

CrowdStrike’s worldwide field chief technology officer talks about cyber crime as an organised business and why all the AI capability in the world will never change the ...