resources and networking events to support those looking for a career in the cyber sector. Fortem Australia was founded in 2019, with the organisation’s co-founder John Bale also co-founding Soldier On, a leading Australian veteran wellbeing charity....

the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fine is the result of a Facebook breach that occurred in 2018 and 2019 that saw the data of 530 million Facebook users posted online. Facebook initially said that the data was old and that it had...

while the demand for counterterror and counterinsurgency operations decreases globally. “On a site visit to Afghanistan in 2019, former Special Operations Command commander General Richard Clarke noted that 60 per cent of the special operations...

2023. JOSEPH LAMREPORTER Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand. Share this article...

(ASIO) anticipates espionage will supplant terrorism as Australia’s principal security threat over the next five years. In 2019, a leading Australian biotechnology company lost thousands of documents containing highly sensitive intellectual property...

Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has reported zero-day vulnerabilities associated with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. Microsoft has published a list of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), assigned to: CVE-2022-41082 – remote code...

in order to distract the Russian government from a counteroffensive in the country’s north. The researcher also evidenced a 2019 wargame in which participants — “bikini” trolls — were used to “lure” soldiers into dates and away from their post.

the business premises. Physical site security is equally as vital as cyber security for securing your data. According to the 2019 Verizon report, physical theft was identified as one of the nine basic patterns of security incidents and data breaches,...

keeping pace with the growth rate of cyber crime". "We've seen exponential growth in cyber crime, year on year, since about 2019. "We've got about 30,000 people — which is a huge amount of people — over the next four years that we're going to need to...

flight delays after the third-party system used for check-ins and boarding was infiltrated. A similar instance happened in 2019, when the personal data of more than 120,000 Air New Zealand frequent flyer customers was compromised after two staff members...

created by a Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod. The campaign has claimed roughly 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019, according to the CPR team, including Australia. The campaign drops malware from free software available on popular...

breach, according to Sophos researchers, which has led to an "attack, change, attack, change" cycle, a trend observed since 2019. Half of (49 per cent) of the surveyed respondents are planning to make changes in the next six months due to experiencing...

Entrust had yet to bend to LockBit's demands. The LockBit gang, whose malware of the same name was first detected in 2019, has become one of the more prolific threat groups in the growing and evolving ransomware scenes. DDoS campaigns are designed to...

in organisations considered to be of strategic interest to Beijing. Those targeted for “credential phishing” since 2019 include the International Federation for Human Rights, Amnesty International, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, Radio Free...

to build on and update the extensive analysis of competition in the social media services sector, published in the ACCC’s 2019 Digital Platforms Inquiry. Businesses, consumers and other stakeholders are encouraged to respond to an issues paper released...

collective Lazarus Group, amid reports the virtual currency mixer has been used to launder billions in stolen assets since 2019. Virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash has been sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury due to claims the transaction...

created the RAT, is facing six charges for his alleged role in creating, selling and administering the RAT between 2013 and 2019. He was scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on 29 July 2022, but the matter was adjourned until 19 August...

The US Treasury Department sanctioned three North Korean hacking groups (Lazarus Group, BlueNoroff, and Andariel) in 2019 for sending stolen financial assets to the North Korean government. Previously, the US government outlined that the various tactics...

Meituan were fined $2.75 billion and $527 million, respectively, in 2021. Alibaba's fine equated to about 4 per cent of its 2019 domestic sales, while Meituan's was equivalent to 3 per cent of its 2020 domestic sales. The CAC outlined that Didi had...

executives in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand who revealed that across APAC, fraud cost has increased from 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The study analysed fraud trends in retail, e-commerce, financial services and lending industries. It...