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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Busted! Conti ransomware member cops 4-year prison term

A Ukrainian national is sentenced for wire fraud in relation to cyber crimes that netted more than US$150 million.

SECURITY • Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Patch now! Cisco warns of state and criminal hackers targeting a pair of Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

The Russian Sandworm group and the Qilin ransomware gang are among several threat actors exploiting bugs in Cisco’s FMC software.

SECURITY • Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Hacked! Surfshark discloses unauthorised access to internal test server

Popular VPN provider says no customer data impacted after human error exposes internal engineering environment.

SECURITY • Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Cyber Wardens program to shut down as government funding ends

The COSBOA CEO says lessons learnt from the program “will help shape what comes next” as she celebrates assisting 23,150 small businesses.

SECURITY • Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Exclusive: Not-for-profit Way Forward suspends payments following external cyber incident

An Australian charity supporting those in financial hardship has disclosed a third-party cyber incident impacting its customer management system.

SECURITY • Thu, 10 Sep 2026

Multiple hardware crypto wallet providers warn of phishing emails after third-party incident

Trezor and BitBox are among the companies warning of scam emails after their newsletter provider was allegedly compromised.

SECURITY • Thu, 10 Sep 2026

Carter Capner law meta class action fgnrcn

Aussie law firm investigating potential for a class action targeting social media giant Meta

Carter Capner Law’s director, Peter Carter, says “the social media fightback has begun” as his firm looks to begin legal action against Meta and other social media firms

CULTURE • Thu, 10 Sep 2026

Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year

Despite surging exposure figures, 66 per cent of boards expect their CISOs to guarantee that breaches will not happen.

SECURITY • Thu, 10 Sep 2026

Boomtown: NVIDIA targets 2GW Australian AI infrastructure buildout by 2027

NVIDIA is working with Australian cloud and AI infrastructure providers on a buildout of up to two gigawatts by 2027, as local demand accelerates.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION • Thu, 10 Sep 2026

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Busted! Conti ransomware member cops 4-year prison term

Patch now! Cisco warns of state and criminal hackers targeting a pair of Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

Hacked! Surfshark discloses unauthorised access to internal test server

Cyber Wardens program to shut down as government funding ends

Exclusive: Not-for-profit Way Forward suspends payments following external cyber incident

Multiple hardware crypto wallet providers warn of phishing emails after third-party incident

Aussie law firm investigating potential for a class action targeting social media giant Meta

Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year

Boomtown: NVIDIA targets 2GW Australian AI infrastructure buildout by 2027

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