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Australia calls cyber experts to serve in new Defence Cyber Reserve Force

Australia calls cyber experts to serve in new Defence Cyber Reserve Force

Experienced Australian cyber professionals are being encouraged to bring their skills into Defence under a new Cyber ...

Stephen Kuper Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Exclusive: RAM maker Kingston Technology investigating ransomware claims

Exclusive: RAM maker Kingston Technology investigating ransomware claims

Everest ransomware group claims hack of a computer storage firm; 138 gigabytes of APAC marketing material soon to be ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Pay or leak: ShinyHunters delivers ultimatum to Logitech

Pay or leak: ShinyHunters delivers ultimatum to Logitech

Prolific cyber extortion group ShinyHunters promises “several (annoying) digital problems” for the computer hardware ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
OpenAI outage impacts logins, ChatGPT and APIs

OpenAI outage impacts logins, ChatGPT and APIs

OpenAI has confirmed an outage impacting its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot service, which prevented users from logging ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Op-Ed: Australian AI agents need expiration dates, not just permissions

Op-Ed: Australian AI agents need expiration dates, not just permissions

Australia’s security conversation is moving from whether organisations will deploy AI agents to how those agents should ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Ransomware newcomers list South Australia’s Ramsey Bros as hacking victim

Exclusive: Ransomware newcomers list South Australia’s Ramsey Bros as hacking victim

The Storm ransomware group claims to have hacked an Australian farm machinery supplier and has allegedly published ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
High alert! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of N-able N-central vulnerability

High alert! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of N-able N-central vulnerability

Hackers are actively targeting Australian organisations using a popular remote monitoring and management platform, the ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
Faulty towers: Quest hotel chain discloses third-party customer data breach

Faulty towers: Quest hotel chain discloses third-party customer data breach

Customers of an Australian hotel apartment chain have been informed that a supply chain hack has compromised their ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 20 Aug 2026
US charges 17 Iranian nationals over ‘massive cyber theft campaign’

US charges 17 Iranian nationals over ‘massive cyber theft campaign’

The Department of Justice has charged members of an Iran-based company over a hacking campaign that targeted academics ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Google confirms outage impacting Drive users in Australia and New Zealand

Google confirms outage impacting Drive users in Australia and New Zealand

Google has confirmed outages and slowness impacting users of its Google Drive service in Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Op-Ed: OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach a warning shot for every boardroom

Op-Ed: OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach a warning shot for every boardroom

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond assisting cyber attackers and is now operating within the attack chain itself

Raymond Schippers, Lead Technologist – ANZ at Check Point Software Technologies Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Australia, Thailand to strengthen cooperation on fighting cyber crime

Australia, Thailand to strengthen cooperation on fighting cyber crime

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul have released a joint statement on combating ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Allianz outlines how the data centre boom will change the insurance game

Allianz outlines how the data centre boom will change the insurance game

The AI boom has had a number of carry-on effects. Booming AI development means booming data centre investment, and in ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Source code potentially compromised in Aussie game dev data breach

Exclusive: Source code potentially compromised in Aussie game dev data breach

Direwolf ransomware group claims to have struck Adelaide-based Mighty Kingdom, with hundreds of code repositories for ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Report: AI-driven disclosures are collapsing the window for defenders to patch vulnerabilities

Report: AI-driven disclosures are collapsing the window for defenders to patch vulnerabilities

Rapid7 warns that soaring vulnerability volumes and faster weaponisation are rendering traditional patching cycles ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Weekend Mastercard outage resolved, but is customer trust at risk?

Weekend Mastercard outage resolved, but is customer trust at risk?

Major payment and technology firm Mastercard has announced that it has restored systems following outages over the ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 19 Aug 2026
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