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Report: Australian firms are facing increasingly costly certificate outages

Report: Australian firms are facing increasingly costly certificate outages

More than two in five Australian organisations suffered certificate-related outages in the past year, with almost one in ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 18 Sep 2026
Israeli national cops 14-year jail term for investment scam linked to $50m in losses

Israeli national cops 14-year jail term for investment scam linked to $50m in losses

AFP says the sentence is “one of the first significant prosecutions under Australia’s proceeds of general crime money ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 18 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Shellharbour-based Leisure Coast Kitchens listed by Kairos ransomware group

Exclusive: Shellharbour-based Leisure Coast Kitchens listed by Kairos ransomware group

Hackers have published employee driver’s licenses, tax file numbers, and customer correspondence, with more data to come

David Hollingworth Fri, 18 Sep 2026
First Reserve cyber specialist brings new expertise to ADF under Cyber Reserve Force entry process

First Reserve cyber specialist brings new expertise to ADF under Cyber Reserve Force entry process

The Australian Defence Force has passed a major milestone with Squadron Leader Talia Hedges becoming the first Reserve ...

Robert Dougherty Thu, 17 Sep 2026
Threat intel: Bug bounty hunter by day, malware developer by night

Threat intel: Bug bounty hunter by day, malware developer by night

Security researchers have uncovered a highly active bug bounty hunter who deploys an LLM-coded infostealer to find their ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Sep 2026
Prolific DDoS-for-hire service NightmareStresser seized by US authorities

Prolific DDoS-for-hire service NightmareStresser seized by US authorities

FBI takes down “world’s longest-running distributed denial-of-service” (DDoS) provider used in hundreds of thousands of ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Sep 2026
Bad bet: Casino websites mask scams and malware risks targeting Australians

Bad bet: Casino websites mask scams and malware risks targeting Australians

Security researchers have identified more than 1.7 million Chinese-language casino domains spanning illegal gambling, ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Sep 2026
Vulnerability in open-source API manager used by Telstra and Vodafone UK under active exploitation

Vulnerability in open-source API manager used by Telstra and Vodafone UK under active exploitation

Hackers are targeting CVE-2026-5430, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in WSO2 API Manager, a platform used ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 16 Sep 2026
Op-Ed: Aussie energy infrastructure is more important than ever – here’s how to protect it

Op-Ed: Aussie energy infrastructure is more important than ever – here’s how to protect it

How Australian energy companies can safeguard their infrastructure from disruptive acts in 2027.

William Glasson, National Sales Manager at Genetec Wed, 16 Sep 2026
ASD chief says Aussie companies’ ageing tech a growing concern in the age of AI

ASD chief says Aussie companies’ ageing tech a growing concern in the age of AI

Abigail Bradshaw has warned of “enormous” spending requirements for Australian businesses and governments to update ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 16 Sep 2026
The industry speaks: International Identity Day 2026

The industry speaks: International Identity Day 2026

The 2026 campaign slogan for International Identity Day is “My identity, my shadow, never apart”.

David Hollingworth Wed, 16 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Aussie software firm Auto-IT confirms customers compromised by Storm ransomware attack

Exclusive: Aussie software firm Auto-IT confirms customers compromised by Storm ransomware attack

Maker of dealer management software responds to dark web hacking claims, saying a “small number of Auto-IT customer ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 15 Sep 2026
Too late: Hackers already harvesting passwords and other sensitive data via critical GitLab flaw

Too late: Hackers already harvesting passwords and other sensitive data via critical GitLab flaw

Experts urge any organisation running self-managed GitLab instances not to wait for normal patch cycles and to remediate ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 15 Sep 2026