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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appointed a veteran cabinet minister to oversee the Home Affairs and Cyber Security ...
Liam Garman • Sun, 28 Jul 2024
Exclusive: Victorian IT services company Insula confirms BianLian ransomware attack
The ransomware gang claims to have a range of internal documents, client data, and source code, as Insula Group’s CEO ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 26 Jul 2024
AI data protection is a key concern for ANZ CIOs
Lenovo’s Smarter Data Management Playbook 2024 report shows IT decision-makers are focused on the security and quality ...
CrowdStrike CEO says ‘97% of Windows sensors are back online’
CEO George Kurtz has released an update following the disastrous 19 July Falcon update that crashed 8.5 million Windows ...
Exclusive: Customer and HR data potentially impacted in alleged BlackSuit attack on Reward Hospitality
The Australian hospitality and catering firm has fallen victim to an alleged ransomware attack.
Outcry after alleged ‘protected’ list of far-right X users leaked online
UPDATE: Okta confirms that the screenshot currently circulating on social media is a fake
David Hollingworth • Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Australian CFOs are getting more involved in IT investment decisions over ROI concerns
Chief financial officers (CFOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) are beginning to work together on IT investment ...
CrowdStrike outage could cost Fortune 500 companies US$5.4bn
Cloud insurance firm estimates that a quarter of all Fortune 500 companies were impacted by the CrowdStrike Falcon ...
CrowdStrike reveals details of incident behind global PC outage
The cyber security firm says a misconfigured Rapid Response Content update to its Falcon platform caused PCs to crash ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 24 Jul 2024
RMIT, Telstra Health recognised for digital health collaboration tool
The digital health tool developed by RMIT University and Telstra Health, in collaboration with the Digital Health ...
Stephen Kuper • Wed, 24 Jul 2024
KnowBe4 reveals it accidentally hired a North Korean hacker
Cyber security awareness firm KnowBe4 warns of the dangers of nation-state hackers getting inside your perimeter.
Scammers seize on CrowdStrike confusion
Phishing emails and calls purportedly from CrowdStrike staff have been detected in the wake of last week’s widespread ...
Reporter • Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Chinese crime syndicate linked to football sponsorship controversy
A Chinese cyber crime syndicate with alleged links to money laundering and human trafficking activities has been ...
Liam Garman • Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Queensland Premier slams LNP’s deepfake TikTok video
Steven Miles calls deepfake video of him “a turning point for our democracy”.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Russian hackers caught targeting Ukrainian research organisations
CERT-UA reveals details of a Russian malware campaign backed by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed ...
Scam warning as businesses recover from outages
Industry leaders have warned of an influx of scams as businesses battle to get back online following last week’s ...
Liam Garman • Mon, 22 Jul 2024
University of Queensland, AUSCERT, and IDCARE team up for Indo-Pacific cyber security program
The new program will provide cyber security and scam response support to microbusinesses in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike’s chief security officer Shawn Henry admits, ‘We failed you’
CrowdStrike’s security chief has said that he and the company take 19 July’s cyber security patch failure personally
The industry speaks: Everyone’s talking about the CrowdStrike outage
Industry experts and observers had a lot to say about last week’s CrowdStrike incident, but the long story made short is ...
National Coordination Mechanism continues to meet over CrowdStrike outage
Australia – and the world – continues to deal with the fallout from Friday’s (19 July) cyber security outage that ...
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