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Submissions and nominations are now open for the Australian AI Awards 2025 – submit now to be recognised for excellence
Reporter • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
Australia confirms establishment of cyber reserves workforce by early 2026
Australia will establish a cyber reserves workforce for the Australian Defence Force by early 2026, under a Cyber ...
Robert Dougherty • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
2025 ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship revealed
Samia Arshad Mehar from the University of Technology Sydney has walked away with a scholarship worth $5,000.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
The spare change: Another UnitedHealth subsidiary has suffered a data breach
Well over a year after the Change Healthcare data breach, a second subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group has suffered a ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
auDA awards grants worth $2.5m to guard against scams and quantum risk
Australia’s domain name administrator splashes cash to transition to quantum-safe DNS and scam prevention and support
Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s hiring back end exposes 64m chatbot job discussions
Researchers were able to access the hiring chatbot’s back end after finding it was protected by a default password: ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Trump administration announces $1bn offensive hacking operation spend
The Trump administration plans to spend US$1 billion (roughly AU$1.53 billion) on offensive cyber operations.
The industry speaks: Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day 2025
Sixteen July is the day to celebrate the benefits of AI while also being aware of the risks of its poor implementation
David Hollingworth • Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Hacked Elmo X account demands Trump release Epstein files, spews anti-Semitic hate
Hackers have targeted the X account of the famous children’s character Elmo to demand that Trump release the Epstein ...
Grok gets NSFW companion and a US$200m Pentagon contract
Observers are unsure if the US military leadership will take advantage of a scantily clad anime girl or a cartoon panda
Are you being served? How cyber-crime-as-a-service works
What used to be the domain of skilled coders and elite hackers is now just a payment away, and Australians are ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 14 Jul 2025
Louis Vuitton confirms cyber attack resulting in customer data theft
Luxury retailer and designer brand Louis Vuitton has revealed that a cyber attack on its network led to unauthorised ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 14 Jul 2025
Australian Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority discloses accidental data breach
The Home Affairs agency, OMARA, reveals that its website search function incorrectly revealed a small amount of data in ...
Denmark to grant citizens copyright of their own face, body and voice
In an effort to curb unsolicited generative AI and deepfakes, Denmark has announced that it is looking to change its ...
Interview: Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek – ‘After 25 years in this business, we still haven’t solved the basics of security’
Cyber Daily chats with Rapid7’s senior director of threat analytics about firmware security and the evolution of cyber ...
Chinese national arrested over links to state-sponsored hacking group
US authorities seek extradition of alleged hacker linked to Silk Typhoon, responsible for a string of US attacks.
Russian basketball player arrested in France under ransomware suspicions
French authorities have arrested a Russian basketball player believed to be a member of a ransomware gang.
Daniel Croft • Fri, 11 Jul 2025
Ingram Micro says operations have been restored globally post-cyber attack
Major US IT provider Ingram Micro has said it has restored its systems following the cyber attack it suffered over the ...
Cyber war: Understanding the digital conflict between 2 Middle Eastern powers
The brief kinetic conflict between the two Middle Eastern powers may have turned into a simmering peace, but the digital ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 11 Jul 2025
Australia’s superannuation industry needs to wake up to the growing threat of cyber attacks
As APRA warns that cyber attacks against the industry are only going to increase, experts say that boards need to ...