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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Op-Ed: Secure by design principles struggle to find unified enterprise adoption

While awareness of the concept of “Secure by Design”’ is growing within many organisations, its usage remains fragmented and inconsistent.

SECURITY • Fri, 23 May 2025

Multiple Coca-Cola bottlers compromised by data breaches

The Everest ransomware gang has claimed a Coca-Cola hack but the actual victim is the Middle East bottling partner, as a second hacker claims breach of the European ...

SECURITY • Fri, 23 May 2025

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ANU confirms IT outage due to ‘IT infrastructure failure’

The 16 May Wi-Fi and systems outage were related to internal incident, not malicious action, the university COO has confirmed.

TECH • Thu, 22 May 2025

Faulty towers: Hospitality sector under attack by highly professional threat actors

A new report reveals an industry under siege by highly competent adversaries leveraging a range of aggressive tactics and tools.

SECURITY • Thu, 22 May 2025

Australia joins global partners to warn of state-sponsored hacking campaign targeting countries supporting Ukraine

Russian military threat actors are targeting Western logistics and technology companies involved in providing foreign assistance to embattled Ukraine.

SECURITY • Thu, 22 May 2025

Telco Circles.Life pays highest-ever $413k fine following anti-scam breaches

An ACMA investigation has found that a lack of identity verification rules led to identity theft and the loss of tens of thousands of dollars.

SECURITY • Thu, 22 May 2025

Cyber security journalist targeted by second-largest DDoS attack ever recorded

The KrebsOnSecurity website was recently hit by a denial-of-service attack that peaked at 6.3 terabits of data per second.

SECURITY • Wed, 21 May 2025

Report: Data breaches drop in 2025, generative AI adoption speeds up

Enterprises are rushing to adopt generative AI (GenAI) into their business operations, but moving too fast comes with an array of risks.

SECURITY • Wed, 21 May 2025

Hack.gov: TeleMessage data breach published by DDoSecrets

Following a hack of the Signal-clone used by top US officials, 410 gigabytes of archived messages have been published online by a pro-transparency not-for-profit.

SECURITY • Tue, 20 May 2025