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Microsegmentation demand sees ColorTokens expand regional offering

Microsegmentation demand sees ColorTokens expand regional offering

Microsegmentation provider ColorTokens has announced that it is expanding in the Asia-Pacific region, with new members ...

Reporter • Tue, 06 Aug 2024
‘Online radicalisation’ partly to blame for rise in Australia’s national terrorism threat level

‘Online radicalisation’ partly to blame for rise in Australia’s national terrorism threat level

ASIO has raised the terrorism threat level from possible to probable despite there being no “imminent threat or danger”

David Hollingworth • Mon, 05 Aug 2024
AFP restrains more than $500k in cryptocurrency following money laundering investigation

AFP restrains more than $500k in cryptocurrency following money laundering investigation

Total assets restrained by the AFP-led Criminal Asset Confiscation Taskforce totals more than $15.6 million.

David Hollingworth • Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Exclusive: Supreme Court of NSW grants injunction in Wattle Range Council hack

Exclusive: Supreme Court of NSW grants injunction in Wattle Range Council hack

Court grants injunction against accessing any data currently published or to be published in the future following a ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Australia signs up to global campaign to fight cryptocurrency scams

Australia signs up to global campaign to fight cryptocurrency scams

The Australian Federal Police said today (5 August) that Operation Spincaster has already found more than 2,000 ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Exclusive: Aussie engineering firm confirms RansomHub ransomware attack

Exclusive: Aussie engineering firm confirms RansomHub ransomware attack

Nearly 500 gigabytes of data was allegedly stolen in a ransomware attack on West Australian firm McDowall Affleck.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 02 Aug 2024
CyberCX and Curtin University partner up for sovereign cloud project

CyberCX and Curtin University partner up for sovereign cloud project

The new Nebula platform will be designed to accommodate and secure sensitive research projects.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Three-quarters of Australians don’t understand how facial recognition technology works

Three-quarters of Australians don’t understand how facial recognition technology works

Despite its widespread and growing use, most Australians know very little about facial recognition.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Fake Google Authenticator app spreads malware, not authentication

Fake Google Authenticator app spreads malware, not authentication

A threat actor has used a legitimate Google ad to direct victims to a fake site to download info-stealer malware.

David Hollingworth • Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Man jailed over AI-generated child abuse material

Man jailed over AI-generated child abuse material

A Victorian man has been jailed for 13 months after police uncovered 793 realistic child abuse images on seized hardware

Reporter • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
Scams a ‘key driver’ behind record rise of financial complaints

Scams a ‘key driver’ behind record rise of financial complaints

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority received 105,000 complaints for the last financial year – a rise of 9 per ...

David Hollingworth • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike faces multiple lawsuits in the wake of July outage

CrowdStrike faces multiple lawsuits in the wake of July outage

The embattled cyber security firm faces a class action from a group of investors and a likely lawsuit from Delta ...

David Hollingworth • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
30% of GenAI business projects to be abandoned by 2025

30% of GenAI business projects to be abandoned by 2025

Gartner predicts that nearly a third of generative AI projects won’t make it past the proof-of-concept stage.

David Hollingworth • Thu, 01 Aug 2024
2% of all ransomware attacks worldwide target Australian organisations

2% of all ransomware attacks worldwide target Australian organisations

Zscaler’s annual ransomware report also notes a new record-high ransomware payment of US$75 million.

David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Criminals used funeral of popular Labor MP to scam money out of mourners

Criminals used funeral of popular Labor MP to scam money out of mourners

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones revealed the incident in a speech to the National ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Cyber attacks against Australian healthcare organisations rise by 33% YOY

Cyber attacks against Australian healthcare organisations rise by 33% YOY

Healthcare entities are coming under increased pressure as cyber extortion has risen by 61 per cent in Australia in the ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
NZ-headquartered accounting firm Xero goes down globally

NZ-headquartered accounting firm Xero goes down globally

Online accounting platform Xero suffers global outage as users lament end-of-month chaos, an AWS issue the likely ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Trend Micro announces new deepfake detection capabilities

Trend Micro announces new deepfake detection capabilities

The company has revealed a new tool to detect AI-generated content and protect businesses from fraud.

David Hollingworth • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
3 in 5 IT professionals have fallen victim to ransomware, overconfidence to blame: Cohesity finds

3 in 5 IT professionals have fallen victim to ransomware, overconfidence to blame: Cohesity finds

Overconfidence in legacy cyber security procedures has left businesses exposed to continuity risks and ransomware ...

Liam Garman • Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Westpac teams up with Optus to fight scammers

Westpac teams up with Optus to fight scammers

The new partnership will provide bank customers with verified, in-app calls directly from Westpac.

David Hollingworth • Tue, 30 Jul 2024