which will build on the strong foundations established by our $230 million 2016 Cyber Security Strategy and our $156 million 2019 cyber security election commitment.

to calculate and back pay an employee who worked full-time on the company’s IT helpdesk. The employee worked between August 2019 and August 2022. The employee contacted the Fair Work Ombudsman regarding the lack of pay, after which the Ombudsman...

2018, Penten continues to receive accolades, including winning the Australian Defence Industry Cyber Business of the Year in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and taking out the Emerging Exporter of the Year category at the 2021 Australian Export Awards.

success having been recognised as Telstra’s 2018 Australian Business of the year as well as Australia Defence Industry’s 2019 Cyber business of the year,” said Professor Frater. “They also have a strong connection with UNSW Canberra; from advising and...

formed in August 2025 and was responsible for several Salesforce-related compromises. ShinyHunters itself dates back to 2019. The group is known for its technical and social engineering skills, and its membership is thought to be largely...

this month. “These vulnerabilities affect all supported on-premises SharePoint Server versions (Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016) and involve establishing remote code execution (RCE) and post-exploitation activities, such as stealing Internet...

AAP. “If we had this comprehensive framework that we recommended in place years ago, we would have addressed TikTok back in 2019 or 2020, and we will be ready for the next one because it’s absolutely a game of whack-a-mole if we’re taking it platform by...

detected on Android devices in 2020, Trojans and malware accounted for 95.9 per cent, an increase from 92.2 per cent in 2019. “[This] year’s Threat Report clearly shows how cyber criminals are willing and able to evolve their tactics to exploit...

skimming groups such as those filed under the umbrella term “Magecart”. These groups struck global targets frequently in 2019 and 2020, but little activity has been reported this year. In September 2020, for example, around 2,000 stores running Magento...

suffered from a cyber attack during the 2021–22 financial year, demonstrating that attacks had almost doubled since the 2019–22 financial year, when attacks were roughly one in 10 (8 per cent). “Today’s Characteristics of Australian Business data...

Optus and UniSA’s partnership in Lot Fourteen’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Living Lab project, launched in 2019.

The telco has received over three million donations from customers since launching its Donate Your DataTM program in late 2019, which has enabled thousands of young Australians in need to access the internet, connecting them to opportunities to learn,...

of dollars of unexpected debt, and some were pursued by debt collectors, in some instances, for years.” Between August 2019 and July 2023, staff at 16 Optus stores from around the country sold contracts in breach of consumer law to 400 customers. Staff...

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...

some 6.6 billion security threats that were hidden inside encrypted traffic. This represents an increase of nearly 260% over 2019. The inspection challenge For this reason, it’s important that inspection of encrypted traffic is made a key component of...

inside The Australia Cyber Security Centre flagged the intensifying threat level in its ACSC Annual Cyber Threat Report July 2019 to June 2020. "Phishing and spearphishing remain the most common methods used by cyber adversaries to harvest personal...

securely provided software updates are critical to maintaining their integrity. In recent years, hacking contests like the 2019 Voting Village at DEF CON have exposed vulnerabilities in voting machines, pressuring manufacturers to improve security....

basic cyber resilience measures without consequence or accountability. The recent Commonwealth Cyber Security Posture in 2019 review confirmed the government’s sustained indifference to this national vulnerability, concluding that the implementation of...

along with reduced efficiency as a result. The average cost to organisations from their longest amount of downtime in 2019 was $762,231, and the average interruption to operations was 18 hours. Unbeknownst to many, incidence response costs can arise...

on an episode of Defence Connect’s podcast and was a judge of the Defence Connect Australian Defence Industry Awards 2019. Alex Scandurra, CEO of Stone & Chalk, has served in the armed forces and led digital transformation efforts in a major financial...