Cyber Daily News
Controversial social media ban passes lower house
The government’s controversial social media ban bill for under-16s has passed through the House of Representatives, ...
Select committee on adopting AI makes 13 key recommendations
A 222-page report on the adoption of AI in Australia has just been tabled in the Senate – here’s what it recommends.
BlackBasta ransomware gang shifts to nation-state tactics
Security researchers have observed a trend in tactics, techniques and procedures that may link the ransomware gang to ...
Op-Ed: Only Ferraris and smart cars – cyber security’s mid-market failings
The cyber security industry has a peculiar problem. It does not have a clue how to build products for, sell to, and ...
Social media ban amended to rule out government ID-based age verification
Australians will not be obliged to hand over government documents to verify their age for social media vendors under the ...
Exclusive: Fencing and site security firm ATF Services confirms cyber attack
ATF Services has confirmed the incident after the INC Ransom ransomware gang claimed to have stolen one terabyte of the ...
Interview: How the vulnerability disclosure process works, with Dragos’ Logan Carpenter
“We’ve had issues where we’ve been threatened with cease-and-desist orders or threatened with lawsuits.”
Industry responds to passing of Australia’s Cyber Security Act
Opinions are mixed on the nation’s new cyber security legislation, which has been deployed as part of the 2023–2030 ...
Australian banks lagging behind US counterparts in scam protections
Two-thirds of Aussie banks fail to implement the most stringent level of email authentication protection, leaving ...
AFP teams up with Philippine counterparts to identify Aussie scam victims
The search for victims began after Philippine authorities took down a major scam compound in Manilla last month.
Exclusive: Telstra confirms data incident, customer data unaffected
Telstra has confirmed that threat actors breached one of its internal systems and stole data belonging to employees and ...
BREAKING: Australian Cyber Security Act passed into law
Today (25 November, the Albanese government passed Australia’s first standalone Cyber Security Act.
Exclusive: KillSec ransomware gang claims alleged hack of Vogue Homes
Ransomware-as-a-service operator KillSec says it has stolen personal customer data from NSW-based home builder Vogue ...
Orange Business and Sat.One partner to bring better communications to remote ANZ regions
The new partnership will use Eutelsat’s OneWeb low-Earth orbit technology to bring enhanced communications to remote ...
Alleged Telstra employee data listed for sale by threat actor
The threat actor claims to have the data of over 44,000 employees.
Cyber security is the sixth best-paying software-related role globally
Cyber security specialists beat out AI and software engineers, as Melbourne makes the top 20 list of cities to find a ...
eSafety partners with telcos to raise awareness of tech-based coercive control
New research shows that a significant number of people believe tech-based tracking over partners is acceptable as ...
Sextortion attacks becoming more common globally, increasingly personalised
Sextortion attacks are becoming increasingly common and are growing in sophistication, according to new research by ...
Exclusive: New Zealand importer Triton Sourcing Distribution confirms ransomware attack
SafePay ransomware gang claims second ANZ scalp with a 10-gigabyte data leak, but no personal data impacted.
Pro-trans rights hackers target Andrew Tate’s The Real World website
Hacktivists have leaked the details of more than 700,000 users of Andrew Tate’s so-called “online university”.