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NSW universities, government agencies, and councils collectively reported 52 data breaches in the seven months ending in ...
Daniel Croft • Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Data of Australian defence personnel up for auction via real-time bidding advertising platforms
The live location data – and much more – of Australians is shared almost 450 times a day on a raft of digital ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 04 Oct 2024
At-risk NSW government agencies have not set deadlines to address cyber issues
A state audit has revealed that a large majority of assessed NSW government agencies have cyber risk levels above their ...
Former UK defence secretary named partner with UK defence and cyber security firm
Sir Ben Wallace has been made partner for global investment firm Boka Capital after leaving office.
Robert Dougherty • Thu, 03 Oct 2024
More than 37k DrayTek routers across Australia and New Zealand are vulnerable to hacking
Security researchers have found 14 new vulnerabilities in 24 models of Vigor routers, with more than 700,000 exposed ...
David Hollingworth • Thu, 03 Oct 2024
Aussie banks and Meta team up to take down celebrity scams on Facebook
The social media giant has removed more than 8,000 “celeb bait” scams following Australian Financial Crimes Exchange ...
The industry speaks: Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024
This year’s theme is “Secure Our World”, and that’s exactly what these cyber security experts and industry luminaries ...
Deloitte and Palo Alto expand security partnership to JAPAC, EMEA regions
Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte have announced today (2 October) an expansion of their partnership into the Japan and ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 02 Oct 2024
Australia imposes sanctions on Evil Corp cyber crime trio
Australia has imposed sanctions on three senior members of the Evil Corp cyber crime organisation.
Australian security cameras at risk of broadcast hacks
AUCyber has warned of widespread attempts to hijack wireless security cameras following reports of Russian hackers ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 02 Oct 2024
archTIS announces $2.3m Australian Department of Defence contract
Aussie data security firm archTIS is contracted to roll out its NC Protect access control platform in a program ...
Millions seized and second Australian man arrested for alleged role in Ghost criminal network
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested an NSW man for allegedly distributing an Aussie-designed criminal ...
4 LockBit members arrested, major affiliates ousted in latest Operation Cronos activity
LockBit 3.0 has taken another critical blow after global law enforcement agencies announced overnight that four more ...
Threat actors allegedly leak sensitive data of Australian aged-care firm
Threat actors have allegedly exfiltrated data from Tasmanian aged-care organisation Respect and are claiming to have ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 01 Oct 2024
Seized LockBit site reappears as Operation Cronos teases new arrests
Global law enforcement has seemingly resurrected the seized dark web leak site of the LockBit ransomware gang once ...
VOCAT leaks hundreds of victim email addresses in admin oversight
An administrative error has seen hundreds of email addresses of Australian crime victims shared in an email.
PlayStation Network offline in global outage
Gamers all over the world are flocking to forums to share tales of woe and theories behind massive disruption to ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 01 Oct 2024
3 Iranian hackers charged over hack-and-leak election interference campaign
The US Department of Justice has indicted three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for their alleged role ...
Quick action leads to recovery of $777k lost to BEC scam
An international police operation has helped a South Australian woman recover funds lost to a 2023 business email ...
304k customer records allegedly stolen from Australian camera and electronics store
Threat actors have claimed a cyber attack on Australian consumer electronics and computing store digiDirect.
Daniel Croft • Mon, 30 Sep 2024