of these latest roadmaps follows the publication of the Combat Clothing, and the Munitions and Small Arms plans in December 2019, the Land Combat and Protected Vehicles plan in August 2020, and the Aerospace Platform Deeper Maintenance and Structural...

and technical considerations for the potential development of Defence policy, doctrine, research and project management. The 2019 workshop was attended by over 100 representatives from Defence, other Australian government agencies, industry, academia,...

The threat actor, known as 2019, offers employee and volunteer staff data on a hacking forum, while Lifeline says some data is “doctored to include falsified information”. Aussie suicide-prevention charity Lifeline has confirmed it was the victim of a...

– 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 “We strongly encourage customers to review their systems, and if outdated, replace them with newer models that have been...

were submitted for the second round of the ADFCGP program, of which 285 have commenced participation. ADFCGP was launched in 2019, with the final intake expected at the end of 2023. The 12-month online program is delivered by the Joint Cyber Directorate...

and sovereign capability to protect the country’s national interests and citizens who are most at risk from cyber harms. In 2019 we conducted an assessment in Vanuatu. Since then, Vanuatu has strengthened its cyber security in several ways, including:...

on UnitingCare in Queensland. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) had to respond to 2,266 events between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020, Nexon outlined with the most threatening of all incidents being ransomware attacks. Network and security...

in the matter. Despite RI Advice commissioning two independent risk assessments and a cyber resilience initiative in 2019, the Federal Court ruled that the practices were too slow to implement. According to Ajay Unni, CEO and founder of StickmanCyber,...

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,...

up to “the standards expected of them under Prudential Standard CPS 234 Information Security”. CPS 234 was introduced in 2019 and requires financial entities to have clearly defined information security roles and responsibilities at the board level and...

if the passwords were not reset, they remain vulnerable. “This incident is related to an old vulnerability resolved in May 2019. At that time, Fortinet issued a PSIRT advisory and communicated directly with customers. And because customer security is...

on NATO at large, and all member states would be expected to come to the defence of the attacked state. But as recently as 2019, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated that cyber attacks do, in fact, count when it comes to Article 5. “To keep us...

it had taken down the Polizia Postale (Postal Police) website, the group which is responsible for fighting cyber crime. The 2019 Eurovision in Tel Aviv, Israel, was also hacked, with the stream showing missile strike warnings and blasts in the host...

Carefully crafting the character Marcela (Marcy) Flores, the hackers added their target as a friend on Facebook in late 2019 before kickstarting their online friendship by exchanging messages in November of the following year. The cyber criminals...

that seem suspicious, and report it to [email protected].” Who is Cuba? The Cuba ransomware gang began operating in 2019 and had an impressive year in 2022 when it collected more than US$60 million in ransoms. It was even the subject of a specific...

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...

victim of a crime, they don’t know how to report scam activity, or they feel embarrassed because they were scammed.” Since 2019, the number of crypto ATMs in Australia has increased from 23 in 2019 to more than 1,600 in 2025. With more ATMs, more...

ordered that assets totalling more than $4.5 million be forfeited, including a waterfront home in Beachmere, Queensland, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and 24.99454224 bitcoin. The funds will go toward supporting law enforcement measures. “The...

which will see $4 billion invested into projects that will bolster Australia’s national research infrastructure from 2018 to 2019. Future investments are also planned, such as the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, which will inject another $1...

that has uncovered a massive uptick in credential stuffing attack traffic on financial services web applications between 2019 to 2020. Akamai’s research uncovered data indicating there has been over 193 billion credential stuffing attacks worldwide,...