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Cloudflare appoints Steve Bray as new ANZ chief

Cloudflare appoints Steve Bray as new ANZ chief

World-leading cloud cyber security company Cloudflare has announced the appointment of a new head of the ANZ region.

Daniel Croft • Tue, 28 Nov 2023
Ransomware hack destroys 17,000 player accounts on indie MMO

Ransomware hack destroys 17,000 player accounts on indie MMO

Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore developers promise to restore every account by hand if necessary.

David Hollingworth • Tue, 28 Nov 2023
Report: 3m Australians impacted by scams this sales season

Report: 3m Australians impacted by scams this sales season

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are prime drivers of scams – and Aussies will offer a lot of information in the name ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 27 Nov 2023
Op-Ed: ‘Let’s kill all the lawyers’

Op-Ed: ‘Let’s kill all the lawyers’

So said Dick The Butcher in Shakespeare’s Henry VI in 1592. Lawyer bashing is not new. Everyone hates them till they ...

Annie Haggar • Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Optus CEO resigns following Senate estimates third degree

Optus CEO resigns following Senate estimates third degree

Just days after she was grilled in a Senate estimates hearing for a slew of incidents affecting Optus, chief executive ...

Daniel Croft • Mon, 20 Nov 2023
Report: Watch out – scams make up nearly half of all Black Friday spam

Report: Watch out – scams make up nearly half of all Black Friday spam

New research finds spam – and scams – skyrocket during the pre-Christmas sale season. Here’s what you need to know.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 17 Nov 2023
Elon Musk’s X fails to pay fine levied by eSafety Commissioner over child sexual abuse material

Elon Musk’s X fails to pay fine levied by eSafety Commissioner over child sexual abuse material

The company formerly known as Twitter has let the deadline to pay a $610,500 fine pass.

David Hollingworth • Wed, 15 Nov 2023
Anonymous Sudan claims DDoS attack on EU League of Legends servers

Anonymous Sudan claims DDoS attack on EU League of Legends servers

A popular video game server may have been taken offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

David Hollingworth • Mon, 13 Nov 2023
Alleged email database of Australian-founded Illuvium game studio for sale on Russian hacking site

Alleged email database of Australian-founded Illuvium game studio for sale on Russian hacking site

Illuvium, founded by Australian brothers, offers a suite of games built on the Ethereum blockchain.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 10 Nov 2023
Small business recoils from cost of cyber security

Small business recoils from cost of cyber security

The main barrier to more secure digital systems is price, a Mastercard survey finds, and raising revenue has become a ...

Philip King • Wed, 08 Nov 2023
Australia drops 6 places in remote work rankings

Australia drops 6 places in remote work rankings

But what country is the highest rated for remote workers? Honestly, it’s probably not that surprising.

David Hollingworth and Kyle Robbins • Wed, 18 Oct 2023
Steam curbs malicious updates from compromised developer accounts

Steam curbs malicious updates from compromised developer accounts

Video game marketplace Steam is implementing additional security measures to combat the growing number of malware-ridden ...

Daniel Croft • Mon, 16 Oct 2023
X/Twitter fined over $600,000 by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner

X/Twitter fined over $600,000 by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner

The Elon Musk-owned social media platform has earned the commissioner’s ire over a lack of response to child sexual ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 16 Oct 2023