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Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has said that his first priority in the new role will be to look into the circumstances surrounding the catastrophic hack ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 24 Jun 2025
US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency starts up new CyberSentry program
CISA has just launched a new program designed to monitor cyber threats to critical infrastructure and use that information to correlate threat activity across a wide ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 04 Jul 2023
Aussie cyber organisations lack competitive rates, risk losing senior staff
Australian cyber organisations face the risk of losing their chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior cyber staff to their overseas counterparts due to a ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 04 Jul 2023
Anonymous Sudan claims to have access to 30m Microsoft accounts
After a hack that successfully took down Microsoft’s OneDrive storage service last month, Anonymous Sudan now says it has the login credentials for 30 million Microsoft ...
Almost 4 in 5 cyber executives would pay ransom
A large majority of cyber executives would pay ransom demands in the case of a cyber attack, according to new research.
SEC announces delay in finalising new cyber security disclosure rules
The US Securities Exchange Commission has said it is pushing back finalising changes to how cyber security incidents are disclosed to October 2023.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 03 Jul 2023
WordPress Ultimate Member plugin vulnerability being exploited in the wild
A third-party plugin used by more than 200,000 WordPress has been found to have an exploitable bug that — despite patching — is still being taken advantage of by bad ...
Deja vu: Optus suffers data breach from major cyber attack
Less than a year after it suffered one of the biggest cyber attacks in Australian history, Optus has announced that some of its data has been leaked.
Daniel Croft • Mon, 03 Jul 2023
ASX-listed AUCloud completes multimillion-dollar capital raise
The sovereign cloud and cyber security provider confirmed the successful capital raise with the Australian Securities Exchange on 3 July, proposing to accelerate growth ...
• Mon, 03 Jul 2023
LockBit ransomware group claims TSMC scalp for $70m ransom, TSMC claims otherwise
In what could have been a nightmare for the global supply of semiconductors, the LockBit ransomware group claimed last week that it had struck the Taiwan Semiconductor ...
Summer means barbecues, cricket, and a big drop in security practices
A new report has revealed that when it comes to summer, everyone likes to relax — and that includes how they work and how secure those practices are.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 30 Jun 2023
Introducing 8Base, the new, highly active ransomware kid on the block
While LockBit 3.0 may still be the leading ransomware group at the moment in terms of victims, a new group has surged ahead in June to take second place.
Terrorism victims among those caught up in UK health data breach affecting 1.1m
A ransomware attack on a UK university has reportedly led to the records of 1.1 million patients being compromised, as the university was using their NHS data for ...