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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Australia’s Department of Parliamentary Services has only ‘partly effective’ cyber security stature, audit finds

DPS says it will “address critical cyber, information security and operational resilience risks” in the wake of ANAO review.

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 15 Jun 2026

Exclusive: One Nation blames ‘fearful Labor goons’ for DDoS site crash

Pauline Hanson’s popularity is surging, and so was the malicious traffic targeting One Nation’s donation page today (12 June).

SECURITY • Fri, 12 Jun 2026

Takedown! AFP helps dismantle alleged $542m cyber crime money laundering network

Australian investigators have helped disrupt an alleged international money laundering operation accused of processing criminal proceeds, including ransomware payments ...

SECURITY • Fri, 12 Jun 2026

Alert! Experts concerned over perfect 10 Ivanti Sentry vulnerability, and hackers are already all over it

CVE-2026-10520 is looking like a nightmare for network defenders: an OS Command Injection vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.

SECURITY • Fri, 12 Jun 2026

Exclusive: Ochre Health confirms patient data from its Tuggeranong clinic potentially compromised

Threat actor 2019 has claimed to have breached the data of more than 25,000 patients via a third-party platform – and it’s already been sold on a hacking forum.

SECURITY • Fri, 12 Jun 2026

CrowdStrike joins OpenID Foundation and IDPro to push real-time AI-era access security

The cyber security firm has joined two of the world’s leading identity organisations as it seeks to accelerate industry adoption of continuous, risk-based identity ...

SECURITY • Fri, 12 Jun 2026

Op-Ed: Criminal AI doesn’t need super hackers

The cyber industry has a bad habit of arguing with the movie trailer instead of watching the whole movie.

SECURITY • Thu, 11 Jun 2026

Student data compromised in second University of Western Australia data breach in 6 months

The university’s Student Information Management System was exposed after access credentials were “unintentionally exposed online”.

SECURITY • Thu, 11 Jun 2026

Tony Burke announces ‘new program of work’ under Horizon 2 of the Australian Cyber Security Strategy

Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security has revealed an $89.3 million investment over four years to combat growing cyber threats.

GOVERNMENT • Thu, 11 Jun 2026