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Report: Australia’s transport sector underprepared for risk of cyber attack

Report: Australia’s transport sector underprepared for risk of cyber attack

Less than half of respondents in a recent survey polling the logistics industry said they felt prepared to face a cyber ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 25 Aug 2026
Allianz transformation drive exposed as excuse to cull staff

Allianz transformation drive exposed as excuse to cull staff

An initiative by Allianz, coined as a way to drive technology innovation, has been revealed to be an excuse for shifting ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 25 Aug 2026
9 in 10 Aussies know property scams exist – but only half can spot one

9 in 10 Aussies know property scams exist – but only half can spot one

Property scams are becoming harder to spot, with a sharp decline in Australians’ ability to detect fraud raising fresh ...

Emilie Lauer Tue, 25 Aug 2026
ReliaQuest says no data accessed after failed ShinyHunters social engineering attempt

ReliaQuest says no data accessed after failed ShinyHunters social engineering attempt

Cyber security firm ReliaQuest confirms one identity was briefly compromised, as hackers share screenshots of hacking ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 25 Aug 2026
High alert! ACSC warns of hackers targeting Aussie organisations using TeamCity On-Premises

High alert! ACSC warns of hackers targeting Aussie organisations using TeamCity On-Premises

A month-old vulnerability in a popular software delivery platform is giving malicious actors a way into Australian ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 25 Aug 2026
Powerless: Iranian hackers the prime suspect in UK power plant shutdown

Powerless: Iranian hackers the prime suspect in UK power plant shutdown

A suspected cyber attack is thought to be behind a four-day shutdown of a small energy provider, as similar activity ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 25 Aug 2026
Op-Ed: Frontier AI is a perishable commodity – why resilience will become the real competitive advantage

Op-Ed: Frontier AI is a perishable commodity – why resilience will become the real competitive advantage

How can organisations build resilience in an environment where today’s frontier capability is unlikely to remain ...

Kishore Jayaram, Chief Transformation Officer at Kinetic IT Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Patch now! Experts urge priority patching of latest Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerability

Patch now! Experts urge priority patching of latest Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerability

Hackers aren’t targeting CVE-2026-19490, but with such a high-value target, exploitation is inevitable.

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Exclusive: New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty investigating cyber security incident

Exclusive: New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty investigating cyber security incident

Prolific hacker 2019 claims hack of a luxury Kiwi real estate firm, but the company says the hacker is overstating the ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Australian lenders turn to cross-industry intelligence as AI drives uptick in financial fraud

Australian lenders turn to cross-industry intelligence as AI drives uptick in financial fraud

Equifax Australia and the Australian Finance Industry Association join forces to strengthen fraud prevention as lenders ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Patch now! Hackers targeting critical vulnerability in AI engineering platform MLflow

Patch now! Hackers targeting critical vulnerability in AI engineering platform MLflow

Organisations using the popular open-source AI tool MLflow are urged to prioritise patching and investigate potential ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Westco Motors Cairns suffers alleged ransomware attack

Exclusive: Westco Motors Cairns suffers alleged ransomware attack

The Storm hacking group has posted details of an Aussie car dealership; customer invoices, emails, and phone numbers ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 24 Aug 2026
Data and AI firm Alation discloses cyber incident

Data and AI firm Alation discloses cyber incident

Silicon Valley AI data giant Alation has confirmed a cyber incident on its network, following its report of an ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Shop now? Banking malware campaign posing as Woolworths active in Australia

Shop now? Banking malware campaign posing as Woolworths active in Australia

Woolies and other trusted brands are being used to spread an Android Trojan that can access bank accounts, read SMSes, ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
Patch now! Active exploitation of critical GitLab vulnerability underway

Patch now! Active exploitation of critical GitLab vulnerability underway

Just days after the disclosure of the almost-perfect-10 vulnerability, CVE-2026-19478, hackers are already on the ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
The industry speaks: Scam Awareness Week 2026

The industry speaks: Scam Awareness Week 2026

The theme for this year’s Scam Awareness Week – which runs from 24 to 28 August – is “No one’s just a number”, and ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 21 Aug 2026
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