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Exclusive: INC Ransom claims pair of Australian victims

Exclusive: INC Ransom claims pair of Australian victims

Terry Ringland Chartered Accountants and South East Country Vets have both been listed on hackers’ darknet leak site.

David Hollingworth Mon, 21 Jul 2025
ACSC circulates ‘act now’ alert over critical Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vulnerability

ACSC circulates ‘act now’ alert over critical Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vulnerability

CVE-2025-53770, also known as ToolShell, is already being actively exploited in the wild, and both government and ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 21 Jul 2025
Millions could be compensated over major Qantas data breach

Millions could be compensated over major Qantas data breach

A national law firm has lodged a representative complaint against Qantas, seeking compensation on behalf of millions of ...

Grace Robbie Fri, 18 Jul 2025
Qantas obtains injunction to prevent hacked data’s release

Qantas obtains injunction to prevent hacked data’s release

Qantas has obtained a court injunction to prevent any person or organisation from publishing the customer information ...

Adam Thorn Thu, 17 Jul 2025
UAP confirms ransomware attack, personal data and email correspondence exposed

UAP confirms ransomware attack, personal data and email correspondence exposed

Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has informed its members of a data breach, but admits “it is impracticable to ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Jul 2025
Australia adopts AS IEC 62443 as national cyber security standard to protect critical infrastructure

Australia adopts AS IEC 62443 as national cyber security standard to protect critical infrastructure

Newly adopted standards offer a clearer and more structured approach to protecting operational technology in critical ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Jul 2025
Tasmanian kids get a taste of ethical hacking courtesy of the AFP

Tasmanian kids get a taste of ethical hacking courtesy of the AFP

The AFP-led Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre hosted re_B00TCMP last month, offering students a glimpse of a ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 17 Jul 2025
Meta patches AI chatbot bug capable of leaking user AI prompts and responses

Meta patches AI chatbot bug capable of leaking user AI prompts and responses

A bug in Meta’s AI chatbot that allowed users to access the prompts and responses of other Meta AI users has been ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 16 Jul 2025
Australia confirms establishment of cyber reserves workforce by early 2026

Australia confirms establishment of cyber reserves workforce by early 2026

Australia will establish a cyber reserves workforce for the Australian Defence Force by early 2026, under a Cyber ...

Robert Dougherty Wed, 16 Jul 2025
2025 ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship revealed

2025 ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship revealed

Samia Arshad Mehar from the University of Technology Sydney has walked away with a scholarship worth $5,000.

David Hollingworth Wed, 16 Jul 2025
The spare change: Another UnitedHealth subsidiary has suffered a data breach

The spare change: Another UnitedHealth subsidiary has suffered a data breach

Well over a year after the Change Healthcare data breach, a second subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group has suffered a ...

Daniel Croft Wed, 16 Jul 2025
auDA awards grants worth $2.5m to guard against scams and quantum risk

auDA awards grants worth $2.5m to guard against scams and quantum risk

Australia’s domain name administrator splashes cash to transition to quantum-safe DNS and scam prevention and support.

David Hollingworth Wed, 16 Jul 2025
Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s hiring back end exposes 64m chatbot job discussions

Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s hiring back end exposes 64m chatbot job discussions

Researchers were able to access the hiring chatbot’s back end after finding it was protected by a default password: ...

Daniel Croft Tue, 15 Jul 2025