been stripped of security clearance and the Justice Department has been ordered to investigate him. Taylor wrote a book in 2019 criticising Trump and his presidency. “I think it’s a very important case, and I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to...

failures in the lead-up and response to a ransomware-related data breach in May and June 2023. “ASIC alleges from March 2019 to 8 June 2023, FIIG failed to take the appropriate steps, as is required by an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensee, to...

even if the attacker must win a race condition, which does raise the bar for entry somewhat. Microsoft Windows 11 and Server 2019 onwards are not listed as receiving patches, so they are presumably not vulnerable. It’s not clear why newer Windows...

OpenAI, which had only raised US$130.5 million in donations through its for-profit subsidiary since it was introduced in 2019. It is also worth noting that Musk’s xAI is also a for-profit, public-benefit corporation.

collaborative efforts and more. This is the second time the AFP has led the VGT, previously chairing it from 2009 to 2019. At the time, the ACCCE had not been established, and the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Other members of the VGT...

had a total student enrolment in 2022 of 18,934 and employs more than 4,000 staff. The university suffered a data breach in 2019 that impacted 19 years’ worth of personal data from both students and teachers. According to comments from intelligence...

with the NSO Group following allegations that the latter’s Pegasus Spyware had been deployed against 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. While the NSO Group had defended its actions by claiming that it had little control over how its customers used its...

are being settled after the company agreed to a US$45 million payout. MGM suffered the first of the two cyber attacks in 2019, exposing the personal data of up to 10.6 million customers. Data included names, emails, phone numbers and birth dates. While...

– which saw a hacker able to completely surveil their victim’s property – was an older device that reached end-of-life in 2019. “We strongly encourage customers to review their systems, and if outdated, replace them with newer models that have been...

stolen data as proof. Morpheus specifically listed Arrotex Pharmaceuticals – one of DBG Health’s business units, created in 2019 via a merger between Apotex Australia and Arrow Pharmaceuticals – as the victim, saying that parties interested in learning...

place with four per cent of all attacks. This remote access Trojan has been used for keylogging and info-stealing since 2019 and is clearly still a popular tool among hackers. Initial access Systems lacking multifactor authentication were the main cause...

accident, adding that these conversations were then disclosed to advertisers to personalise marketing. The case goes back to 2019, when The Guardian in the UK reported that Apple had hired contractors to listen to private conversations captured by Siri,...

following experimental quantum computing these past five years (say, since Google’s original quantum supremacy milestone in 2019), there’s no particular shock here. Since 2019, Google has roughly doubled the number of qubits on its chip and, more...

and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program, was established in the Secure and Trusted Communications Act 2019. The additional funding has been heavily pushed by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel, who wrote to Congress on 2 December saying...

of developing “safe and beneficial artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity”, said the company. However, in 2019, prior to the release of the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise funding, having...

A German court has ruled that those whose data was accessed and exfiltrated by cyber criminals in a 2018–2019 data breach are entitled to compensation. On Monday (18 November), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that those affected by a...

Call, a global initiative to limit the spread of extremist and terrorist content online. The Call is named after a 2019 terrorist attack that took place in the New Zealand city of Christchurch that saw 51 people murdered. The attack was streamed live...

NSO’s CEO and chief operating officer at the time that Pegasus was used to infect the devices of 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019, was also deposed. According to WhatsApp’s filing, he admitted “the actual process for installing Pegasus through WhatsApp was...

to appreciate the Exchange team’s blog title: “You Had Me at EHLO”. Patches for CVE-2024-49040 are available for Exchange 2019 CU13 and CU14, as well as Exchange 2016 CU23. It’s worth remembering that both Exchange 2016 and 2019 have an extended end...

added that the affected customers were limited to those who made purchases on the company’s e-commerce site between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020. Samsung also suffered two data breaches in 2022, having been attacked in March 2022 when the Lapsus$...