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While popular belief says recovering money lost to scammers is next to impossible, the AFP has revealed it returned $45 million in money lost to scams over the past three ...
David Hollingworth • Sat, 09 Aug 2025
Medibank spends $22m on admin costs alone following cyber attack
In a breakdown of its expenditure over the last 12 months, Medibank has revealed just how it spent almost $50 million in clean-up costs for the cyber attack it suffered ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 25 Sep 2023
Op-Ed: Ransomware and extortion attempts show no signs of slowing down
Ransomware groups, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and commodity attackers continue to compromise global businesses at scale, showing no signs of abating.
Rob Dooley • Thu, 21 Sep 2023
Cactus ransomware gang claims hack of Australian logistics and healthcare firm Peacock Bros
An Australian company has been once again struck by a ransomware gang, this time the family-owned, Victoria-headquartered firm Peacock Bros.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 21 Sep 2023
Op-Ed: Cyber security should be everyone’s problem – accountability and responsibility aren’t the same thing
The assertion that “employees are not responsible for cyber security, the C-suite is” confuses legal duty with practical responsibility.
Samantha MacLeod & David Fairman of Netskope • Wed, 20 Sep 2023
Pizza Hut warns customers of possible data breach
Old-school fast-food chain Pizza Hut has sent emails to its customers warning that some customer data may have been compromised in a recent data breach.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 20 Sep 2023
US DOD releases 2023 cyber strategy to combat emerging threats
The US government has outlined key strategies to combat emerging cyber security threats in the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy.
Robert Dougherty • Wed, 20 Sep 2023
Report: Healthcare sector needs to do more to combat ransomware
New research has shed light on the healthcare industry’s lack of readiness when it comes to defending itself from ransomware attacks.
Thales launches external key management for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
French multinational Thales has announced that CipherTrust Cloud Key Management’s Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) will be available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Reporter • Tue, 19 Sep 2023
Auckland Transport suffers ‘technical outage’ as Medusa ransomware gang claims hack
A New Zealand transport service has confirmed its ticketing systems were disrupted on Tuesday (19 September) by a “cyber incident”, but services are coming back online ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 19 Sep 2023
Microsoft accidentally leaks 38TB of internal data on GitHub
The Redmond giant is having a shocker of a time when it comes to security, with its latest own goal exposing 30,000 internal Teams messages.
National cyber security coordinator concludes formal response to HWL Ebsworth hack
Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has declared that law firm HWL Ebsworth is now in a position to manage its response to a hack that saw multiple ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 18 Sep 2023
Tesserent shareholders vote in favour of Thales Australia acquisition
Tesserent held a share scheme meeting today (18 September) to determine the outcome of its acquisition by Thales Australia.
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