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New research reveals the staggering cost of cyber complexity to Australian businesses

New research reveals the staggering cost of cyber complexity to Australian businesses

The complexity and fragmentation of cyber security platforms can cost a company, on average, 5 per cent of their annual ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Feb 2025
AFP shares romance scam script recovered from Philippines-based criminal operation

AFP shares romance scam script recovered from Philippines-based criminal operation

The Australian Federal Police wants Australians to read the script, which includes a full backstory, a daily timeline, ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Feb 2025
Report: Ransomware attacks on industrial systems an ‘increasingly dynamic ecosystem’

Report: Ransomware attacks on industrial systems an ‘increasingly dynamic ecosystem’

According to Dragos’ latest industrial ransomware analysis, ransomware gangs caused widespread disruptions of critical ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Lynx ransomware group claims hack of truck dealership Brown and Hurley

Exclusive: Lynx ransomware group claims hack of truck dealership Brown and Hurley

The Queensland-based company was listed on the gang’s darknet leak site earlier this month.

David Hollingworth Fri, 14 Feb 2025
Red flags! How to spot 6 common Valentine’s Day scams

Red flags! How to spot 6 common Valentine’s Day scams

Love is in the air for Valentine’s Day this week – but so are scammers! Here’s what you should be looking out for.

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Australian Parliament passes Scams Prevention Framework

Australian Parliament passes Scams Prevention Framework

The “world-leading” legislation aims to make Australia a hard nut to crack for scammers.

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation sues DOGE over privacy violations

Electronic Frontier Foundation sues DOGE over privacy violations

EFF has filed a lawsuit against the Musk-led agency Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Personnel ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Cyber attack on Australian education centre claimed by KillSec

Exclusive: Cyber attack on Australian education centre claimed by KillSec

Threat actors have claimed a cyber attack on an Australian private education institution, claiming to have stolen ...

Daniel Croft Thu, 13 Feb 2025
CommBank outage halts online trading for thousands of merchants

CommBank outage halts online trading for thousands of merchants

Thousands of merchants across the country have been left without the ability to process online payments thanks to an ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Fog ransomware group claims January hack of the University of Notre Dame Australia

Exclusive: Fog ransomware group claims January hack of the University of Notre Dame Australia

Hackers claim to have stolen more than 62 gigabytes of data from the Australian university, including student medical ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Spectrum Medical Imaging warns patients medical data exposed following ransomware attack

Exclusive: Spectrum Medical Imaging warns patients medical data exposed following ransomware attack

The Sydney-based medical practice has confirmed a data breach impacting patient records following the January INC Ransom ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 12 Feb 2025
AUKUS members sanction Medibank hacker and LockBit infrastructure provider

AUKUS members sanction Medibank hacker and LockBit infrastructure provider

The Australian government has imposed sanctions on a Russian service used by cyber criminals, including those behind the ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Natures Organics confirms Medusa ransomware attack

Exclusive: Natures Organics confirms Medusa ransomware attack

Hackers claim to have stolen passport and driver’s licence scans and other personal information from an Australian ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Australia suffered a cyber attack every second in 2024, 47m data breaches

Australia suffered a cyber attack every second in 2024, 47m data breaches

Australia has secured the number 11 spot in the race of nations most affected by cyber attacks, after it suffered 47 ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Optus reveals ‘first-of-its-kind’ GenAI workshop for students

Optus reveals ‘first-of-its-kind’ GenAI workshop for students

Aussie telco Optus becomes the first Trusted eSafety Provider to offer student workshops focusing on “online safety in ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Australian Cyber Summit 2025 to reveal lessons from top CISOs

Australian Cyber Summit 2025 to reveal lessons from top CISOs

Cyber professionals will be shown technical strategies, lessons, and best practices learnt from seasoned enterprise ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Ransomware gang 8Base members arrested, darknet site seized

Ransomware gang 8Base members arrested, darknet site seized

A global law enforcement operation has disrupted the operations of a prolific cyber crime group.

David Hollingworth Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Altman says ‘no thank you’ to Musk-led OpenAI buyout bid

Altman says ‘no thank you’ to Musk-led OpenAI buyout bid

Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have offered to buy out ChatGPT-maker for US$97 billion.

David Hollingworth Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Altman inspired by DeepSeek, says AI development costs will drop

Altman inspired by DeepSeek, says AI development costs will drop

OpenAI has promised that the cost of developing new AI models will drop after being seemingly inspired by its new ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 11 Feb 2025
HPE notifies employees of 2023 cyber attack

HPE notifies employees of 2023 cyber attack

The business division of PC maker Hewlett Packard is currently informing staff affected by a cyber attack in 2023 that ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 10 Feb 2025