(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...

2012, it was demonstrated that every possible permutation of NTLM’s eight-byte hash could be cracked in under six hours. In 2019, an open-source password recovery tool known as HashCat demonstrated that it could crack any eight-byte hash in under two...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

solutions that enable affiliate threat actor groups to target mobile devices without the need for homegrown resources. In 2019, Pegasus was used to leverage WhatsApp and infect more than 1,400 user devices, from senior government officials to...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. For more information visit...

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...

next 12 months and beyond, the total value of deals across blockchain technology companies will increase significantly. In 2019, we saw investments in blockchain across the Asia-Pacific increase by 83.9 per cent, taking the total market value to $523.8...

breach, but how did it impact trust in the ANU? The breach wasn’t publicly acknowledged until October 2018, by which time 2019 enrolments were locked in. And the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 made it difficult to understand...

a September 2020 attack against a New Jersey facility involving Makop ransomware, which encrypted files; and a March 2019 incident at a Kansas facility when a former employee whose credentials had not been revoked, attempted to remotely access a...

which formed in August 2025 and was responsible for several Salesforce compromises. ShinyHunters itself dates back to 2019. The group is known for its technical and social engineering skills. Previous victims include Qantas, Jaguar Land Rover, PornHub,...

United States’ Homeland Security Investigations and Interpol, followed up initial reports of the perpetrator, and in 2019, the Western Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team – a collaboration between the AFP and Western Australia Police Force –...

Defence College has been using virtual reality simulations for over 10 years for humanitarian operations. VR at home Since 2019, VR technology has also been used in the Defence Force School of Languages. While Australia has embraced the platforms...

the video game industry suffered more than 240 million web application attacks in 2020, a 340 per cent increase over 2019. The “relentless” web application and credential stuffing attacks targeted gamers and gaming companies throughout 2020. Mobile...

businesses often have weaker security measures and are more vulnerable. The National Cybersecurity Alliance found in a 2019 report that 43 per cent of all cyber attacks were on businesses with under 250 employees. In addition, the FBI’s Internet Crime...

clause as foreign states, but the Supreme Court has denied the company any immunity on that basis. The dispute dates back to 2019, when WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook sued NSO claiming the spyware maker had used a WhatsApp vulnerability to...

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...

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...

spike in use across the country. LockBit is believed to be a Russian-speaking group and has been in operation since at least 2019.

and has confirmed that it is the real deal, as has the airline now. It appears to be a copy of the original document from 2019. On the list are members of the IRA, and an overwhelming number of individuals of Middle Eastern and Arabic descent. The list...

were the “size of a 10-square-foot box”. The platform utilises machine learning from Project Maven, which hit headlines in 2019 when Google departed the project after a series of concerns. Writing for the Modern War Institute, Richard Schultz and...