Security
Avast fined US$16.5m by US Federal Trade Commission for selling user data
Antivirus firm Avast promised to protect customers from online tracking – then tracked their data and sold it anyway.
ACSC releases critical alert concerning ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect
The Australian Cyber Security Centre says patch now to avoid active exploitation of path traversal and authentication ...
The weekly ransomware report, Friday, 23 February
Ransomware incidents drop drastically, and not just because LockBit is out of the picture.
AT T outage sparks FBI cyber attack investigation
The US’ largest telco, AT T, has suffered a major network outage, sparking concerns that a cyber attack may be the ...
Op-Ed: LockBit is gone, but what does that actually mean?
Is this a mighty blow against cyber crime, or just a glancing blow? Taking out LockBit should be celebrated, but it’s ...
ACSC releases critical alert over Progress Kemp LoadMaster vulnerability
A newly disclosed bug in Progress Kemp’s application delivery platform could allow the execution of unauthenticated ...
Medibank continues to count the cost of 2022 cyber attack
The health insurer releases half-year financial results as its 2022 data breach continues to loom large.
54m affected in Russian website builder data leak
Users of a Russian website builder have had their data leaked after the organisation left a database publicly accessible
232k customers affected in Australian telco cyber incident
Hundreds of thousands of customers of an Australian mobile, internet and NBN provider have had their data exposed in a ...
Cyber attack leaves Vili’s dry as pie giant investigates the sauce
The national icon that is the meat pie is seemingly now under threat after cyber criminals attacked the internal systems ...
LockBit gang data leaked on own dark web site as NCA, FBI release new details
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has released additional details of its joint takedown of the notorious and most ...
‘There’s no safe place for children online,’ says FBI
The FBI has recruited a popular YouTube doctor to talk about internet blackmailers targeting children.
Cambridge University DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan
A cyber attack has stunted the operations of one of the world’s most prestigious and famous universities.