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While the Australian Taxation Office’s systems may remain secure, a wave of tax account theft seems to have taken place
Daniel Croft • Wed, 21 May 2025
Adidas suffers a second regional data breach
A second regional adidas location has disclosed a cyber incident, revealing that customer data was exposed after an ...
UK retailer supplier confirms cyber attack, links to M&S, Co-op, Harrods unconfirmed
A major supplier for UK retailers has revealed that it has suffered from a ransomware attack, becoming the fourth ...
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 ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 21 May 2025
OpenAI’s GPT-5 will consolidate all other company models
OpenAI’s new chatbot model is set to merge a number of capabilities from various models into one, consolidating their ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 20 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 ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 20 May 2025
Major UK telco leaks user geolocation and other metadata during calls
Customers of major UK telecommunications giant O2 have been having their location and other metadata leaked by the ...
Report: Australian government must do more to combat tech-facilitated abuse in schools
Our Watch has released a national blueprint to address AI-generated pornography, tech-facilitated abuse, and other ...
Trump signs ‘Take It Down Act’, criminalising revenge porn and deepfakes
US President Donald Trump has signed legislation criminalising the publication of AI-generated deepfake and revenge porn ...
Troy Hunt launches Have I Been Pwned 2.0
Aussie security researcher Troy Hunt updates web tool for tracking data breaches, with a heap of new features.
Hacker of US SEC’s X account sent to prison
The hacker behind the account compromise of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) X account is now facing jail ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 19 May 2025
Artificial intelligence backed by NSW government to drive housing supply analysis
AI mapping tools at the University of NSW’s new Housing Analytics Lab will help the state government track construction ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 19 May 2025
Fake GoFundMe page targets Victorian Liberal MP John Pesutto
Efforts to help John Pesutto pay $2.3 million in legal costs over the Moira Deeming defamation case were hampered by a ...
Ransomware denied: Co-op’s quick action leads to a quick recovery
Co-op, the UK retail giant that was hacked at the end of last month, is set to recover much faster than the other two ...
Coinbase offers a US$20m reward following insider-threat extortion attempt
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase flips the script on scammers, turning an extortion attempt into a reward for anyone ...
Crypto and property worth more than $4.5m seized from Aussie League of Legends hacker
A Queensland mansion, a Mercedes-Benz, and almost 25 bitcoin have been forfeited by an Australian man linked to a 2013 ...
Op-Ed: Strengthening Australia’s cyber defences – a call to action for organisations
As cyber attacks increase and Australian financial institutions find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs, just ...
Paul Henaghan, managing director of Cohesity Australia and New Zealand • Mon, 19 May 2025
Exclusive: MKA Accountants confirms Qilin ransomware attack
A Victorian accounting firm has been listed as a ransomware victim, with internal documents posted to the dark web.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 16 May 2025
Steam not breached in 89m database leak, third-party potentially hacked
Investigations suggest a third party may have been breached, leaking some two-factor authentication (2FA) codes and ...
Daniel Croft • Fri, 16 May 2025
Australia Post warns of new phishing scam targeting its customers
Fraudulent messages are surging across the country as part of a global trend in phishing-as-a-service operations.
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