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French citizen extradited to the US to face hacking charges

French citizen extradited to the US to face hacking charges

A 21-year-old Frenchman was extradited to the United States last week after being arrested in Morocco in 2022

David Hollingworth Mon, 30 Jan 2023
FBI takes down servers and websites belonging to Hive ransomware group

FBI takes down servers and websites belonging to Hive ransomware group

After a six-month-long operation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has scored a big win in the fight against ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

Imagine for a moment that you work as a cyber security professional at one of the major Australian companies that ...

Collin Penman Fri, 27 Jan 2023
How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

Earlier this month, Australian data security company archTIS published a fascinating blog post on how to keep ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Duolingo is investigating a data-scraping incident following a post on a well-known data breach forum offering the data ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

Video games, defence, education … cyber security covers them all. And now we can add Taylor Swift to the list of all ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 25 Jan 2023
GoTo reveals extent of November breach: Backups and encryption keys affected

GoTo reveals extent of November breach: Backups and encryption keys affected

SaaS and remote working specialist GoTo has just announced more details about a data breach that occurred in November ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Riot Games hack gets worse, League of Legends source code confirmed breached

Riot Games hack gets worse, League of Legends source code confirmed breached

It now appears that the Riot Games data breach is — as seems usual these days — a lot worse than initially reported

David Hollingworth Wed, 25 Jan 2023
A new Australian-led anti-ransomware task force is now operational

A new Australian-led anti-ransomware task force is now operational

Today marks the first day of operation of the new International Counter Ransomware Task Force led by Australia and ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 24 Jan 2023
Sydney man jailed over $100k SMS phishing scam

Sydney man jailed over $100k SMS phishing scam

Sydney Local Court has sentenced a 40-year-old Sydney man to a two-year, eight-month stint in prison over an SMS ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 24 Jan 2023
Passionate gamers leak classified military documents online — twice in 2 days

Passionate gamers leak classified military documents online — twice in 2 days

Classified information regarding the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet has been leaked to a gaming forum ...

Robert Dougherty and David Hollingworth Mon, 23 Jan 2023
US no-fly list revealed by Swiss security researcher — and one very lax airline

US no-fly list revealed by Swiss security researcher — and one very lax airline

A Swiss cyber security researcher with time on her hands and a healthy curiosity has managed to breach the not-so-secure ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 23 Jan 2023
Game developer Riot Games hacked, dev environment breached

Game developer Riot Games hacked, dev environment breached

While video games are hardly critical infrastructure, for millions of gamers around the world, they are an essential ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 23 Jan 2023