Cyber Daily News
Home Depot employee data exposed after third-party vendor breached
Employees of the US’ largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot, have had their data exposed after a third-party ...
Hoya Optics production stunted following cyber attack
A cyber attack on one of the world’s largest optics manufacturers has led to some of its servers to go offline, stunting ...
AFP confirms no cyber attack behind outage
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed that an issue with its email sends was, in fact, not the result of a ...
Victorian firefighters suffered delayed response post-cyber attack
A cyber attack Victorian firefighters suffered some time ago resulted in slowed response times to critical fires, ...
EU ditches cloud provider sovereignty requirements in Cybersecurity Certification Scheme
The European Union (EU) has abandoned regulations that would require cloud providers to be independent of non-EU ...
Five Eyes data reportedly exfiltrated in US federal contractor breach
Threat actors are claiming to have stolen data belonging to the Five Eyes intelligence group after breaching a US ...
New UTS pilot program teaches vulnerable non-profits cyber skills
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is closing the cyber security gap between non-profits and other organisations, ...
Sydney’s Indian Support Centre suffers second cyber attack of the year
A Western Sydney-based organisation has been hit for the second time this year by a different actor using the same form ...
ChatGPT’s current iteration is almost twice as persuasive as the average human being
While people are getting better at identifying the difference between human content and that generated by artificial ...
Google to destroy billions of records of data as part of lawsuit settlement
To settle a lawsuit that accused it of tracking users browsing the internet using Google Chrome despite them being in ...
Backdoor in popular Linux tool spotted by Microsoft engineer
The xz compression tool appears to have been tampered with “over several weeks” to create a malicious new feature.
US offers US$10m reward for information on ALPHV hackers behind UnitedHealth breach
The US government is advertising a major multimillion-dollar reward for information on the hackers that took down ...
Hot Topic customer data potentially compromised following credential stuffing attack
US retail chain Hot Topic has disclosed that a cyber attack late last year has potentially resulted in the accounts of ...
AT T finally admits ‘AT T data-specific fields’ are part of leak affecting more than 70m customers
The US telco giant is still unaware of the source of the data leak but does say the data affects both current and past ...
India rescues nationals forced to work in cyber scam factories
Hundreds of Indian citizens trapped and forced to work in Cambodian cyber scam factories have been rescued.
Australian digital ID bill finally passes the Senate
Three years after its first draft, a highly amended version of the bill passed with support from Greens, independents, ...
Australian man jailed over possession of AI-generated child abuse material
“Hundreds of files” of child abuse material were found on a Tasmanian man’s personal computer, leading to a two-year ...
Report: 1 in 20 APAC organisations hit by ransomware gangs in 2023
FS-ISAC’s Navigating Cyber 2024 report finds cyber attacks on the rise, on the back of a surge in ransomware incidents
CrowdStrike and Rubrik announce data security partnership
The new strategic partnership combines Rubrik’s Security Cloud with CrowdStrike’s Falcon XDR platform.
DARPA readies new anti-deepfake technology
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has said that its Semantic Forensics program is ready for industry and ...