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Google’s parent company readies $5bn Kangaroo bond for Aussie data centre rollout

Google’s parent company readies $5bn Kangaroo bond for Aussie data centre rollout

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is preparing to raise a $5 billion Kangaroo bond as part of its Down Under data ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Report: Cost of a cyber incident rises by 219% year on year

Report: Cost of a cyber incident rises by 219% year on year

More than two-thirds of respondents to a recent MinterEllison survey said their business was the target of a cyber ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Exclusive: SIA Medical Centre confirms it is investigating cyber incident involving patient data

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 ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Patient data potentially compromised in alleged dental clinic data breach

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 ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
France suffers from unprecedented cyber attack wave, with one hacker supposedly behind it all

France suffers from unprecedented cyber attack wave, with one hacker supposedly behind it all

France has confirmed an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks impacting a number of government agencies and private-sector ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Report: AI reasoning gains fail to eliminate racial and gender bias in medical research

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 ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Westpac teases development of a new agentic AI ecosystem

Westpac teases development of a new agentic AI ecosystem

Big four bank Westpac has announced it is working on a new agentic ecosystem to assist in ramping up the company’s ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Hack on! Private US companies given presidential go-ahead to target cyber criminals

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 ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Aussie kidswear brand launches investigation following hacker claims

Exclusive: Aussie kidswear brand launches investigation following hacker claims

An Australian kidswear retailer has confirmed that it is aware of claims of a cyber incident and has subsequently ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Concerns raised about new military phone-cracking tech proposed for NSW Police Force

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 ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Hello, who’s this? RingCentral discloses data breach in wake of ShinyHunters hack claims

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 ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
CrowdStrike expands Project QuiltWorks to bring AI protection to SMBs

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.

David Hollingworth Mon, 17 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Australian truck trailer company Midland among dozens of victims listed by Cl0p cyber extortion group

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, ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Aug 2026
In conversation with CrowdStrike’s Fabio Fratucello

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 ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Hacked! Aussie furniture company Nick Scali discloses cyber incident

Hacked! Aussie furniture company Nick Scali discloses cyber incident

The company was forced to take “certain systems” offline in the wake of a cyber attack, and customer orders were ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Cyber attack frequency considerably higher than last year

Cyber attack frequency considerably higher than last year

Cyber attack levels have risen 16 per cent in the last year, according to new research by Check Point.

Daniel Croft Thu, 13 Aug 2026
De Stefano   Co expands into Melbourne as Victorian defence sector grows

De Stefano Co expands into Melbourne as Victorian defence sector grows

The defence security advisory firm has opened its second Australian office, targeting growing demand across Victoria’s ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Gone in 40 minutes: More than 2,500 companies compromised by March LiteLLM breach

Gone in 40 minutes: More than 2,500 companies compromised by March LiteLLM breach

Amazon, ServiceNow, Deloitte, and Epic Games are all potentially caught up in a massive supply chain breach carried out ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Aug 2026
CBA bolsters AI investment as business lending sees major growth

CBA bolsters AI investment as business lending sees major growth

Business lending has emerged as the standout performer in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s full-year results, ...

Julian Barnes Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Report: Exploit of high-impact vulnerabilities soared in July, with older flaws still all too prevalent

Report: Exploit of high-impact vulnerabilities soared in July, with older flaws still all too prevalent

Researchers tracked 85 actively exploited CVEs impacting more than 60 vendors last month, with one at least 18 years ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Aug 2026