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Australian government partners with Amazon for national defence project

Australian government partners with Amazon for national defence project

Amazon Web Services has been tapped to deliver a “top-secret cloud” in partnership with the Australian Signals ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 04 Jul 2024
Canberra’s ANU and Fujitsu team up to create quantum computing research centre

Canberra’s ANU and Fujitsu team up to create quantum computing research centre

The tech giant and the university have signed a memorandum of understanding, with the eventual aim of building an ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 04 Jul 2024
Exclusive: New Zealand’s Elite Fitness confirms DragonForce ransomware attack

Exclusive: New Zealand’s Elite Fitness confirms DragonForce ransomware attack

Fitness equipment supplier Elite Fitness says customer and employee details have been breached as hackers post data to ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 04 Jul 2024
Exclusive: Popular online role-playing platform Roll20 warns users of data breach

Exclusive: Popular online role-playing platform Roll20 warns users of data breach

Roll20 sends an alert to its users warning of a breach impacting personal data, IP addresses, and the last four digits ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 03 Jul 2024
Interview: CrowdStrike’s Fabio ‍Fratucello talks about the cloud security journey and the GenAI race

Interview: CrowdStrike’s Fabio ‍Fratucello talks about the cloud security journey and the GenAI race

CrowdStrike’s field CTO joins us for a chat about the ongoing challenges of digital transformation and cloud adoption, ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 03 Jul 2024
Exclusive: 4TB of data allegedly leaked in Australian healthcare breach

Exclusive: 4TB of data allegedly leaked in Australian healthcare breach

The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research has confirmed a “cyber incident” as the Medusa ransomware gang claims to ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 03 Jul 2024
Human Rights Watch finds photos of Aussie kids in AI training dataset

Human Rights Watch finds photos of Aussie kids in AI training dataset

The candid images of nearly 200 Australian children were found being used to train AI – without their or their parents’ ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 03 Jul 2024
Rapid7 announces completion of IRAP PROTECTED assessment level

Rapid7 announces completion of IRAP PROTECTED assessment level

Australian government agencies that need PROTECTED level controls can now take advantage of several of the company’s key ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 03 Jul 2024
Exclusive: Steps to Life Christian ministry hit by data breach

Exclusive: Steps to Life Christian ministry hit by data breach

A total of 100,000 records related to customers and staff of the Victorian Seventh Day Adventist media organisation were ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 02 Jul 2024
Exclusive: Alleged FBI server details and login pages shared on hacking forum

Exclusive: Alleged FBI server details and login pages shared on hacking forum

The FBI has declined to comment after alleged IP addresses and physical server locations were posted to a clear web ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 02 Jul 2024
Chinese-linked hackers spotted exploiting Cisco NX-OS vulnerability

Chinese-linked hackers spotted exploiting Cisco NX-OS vulnerability

The Velvet Ant threat group was recently observed deploying malware and executing code on vulnerable Cisco Nexus ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 02 Jul 2024
Over 14m servers could be vulnerable to newly rediscovered regreSSHion flaw

Over 14m servers could be vulnerable to newly rediscovered regreSSHion flaw

A previously patched vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server could lead to a complete network takeover if not addressed.

David Hollingworth Tue, 02 Jul 2024
eSafety Commissioner lays down gauntlet to social media and porn sites to protect kids online

eSafety Commissioner lays down gauntlet to social media and porn sites to protect kids online

The online industry has six months to develop a set of rules and processes to protect children from harmful content.

David Hollingworth Tue, 02 Jul 2024
IntelBroker leaks alleged Cognizant data

IntelBroker leaks alleged Cognizant data

Serial leaker IntelBroker is claiming to have leaked the data of IT consulting and services firm Cognizant.

Daniel Croft Mon, 01 Jul 2024
NAB executive: ‘We’re engaged in asymmetrical warfare’

NAB executive: ‘We’re engaged in asymmetrical warfare’

The National Australia Bank’s general manager of group investigations, Chris Sheehan, reveals the cyber security ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 01 Jul 2024
O’Neil announces plans to protect healthcare industry from cyber crime

O’Neil announces plans to protect healthcare industry from cyber crime

The federal government has announced a plan to fight of threats to the Australian healthcare industry.

Daniel Croft Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Australia’s first Indigenous sovereign cloud to be protected by Netskope

Australia’s first Indigenous sovereign cloud to be protected by Netskope

Australia’s first two Indigenous-owned data centres will go live this year, ahead of more than 20 more to follow in a ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Downtime costs Australian organisations more than $1m per incident

Downtime costs Australian organisations more than $1m per incident

New research reveals the growing costs of digital incidents, with an automation gap to blame for expensive outages.

David Hollingworth Mon, 01 Jul 2024
TeamViewer detects data breach as researchers attribute it to APT29

TeamViewer detects data breach as researchers attribute it to APT29

Remote access software program TeamViewer has announced that it detected suspicious activity on its network, with ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 28 Jun 2024
Have I Been Pwned reveals more than 17m people were impacted by Ticketek data breach

Have I Been Pwned reveals more than 17m people were impacted by Ticketek data breach

Subscribers to an Australian security researcher’s data breach monitoring site received emails today warning of the full ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 28 Jun 2024