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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has discovered two vulnerabilities affecting Atlassian’s Confluence Data ...
Daniel Croft • Thu, 02 Nov 2023
Biometric data of more than 800m Indians briefly on sale on hacking forum
A user on a popular hacking forum offers up access to a treasure trove of personal data – then deleted their post.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 02 Nov 2023
SEC accuses SolarWinds of defrauding investors by lying about its security posture
Three years after it became the catalyst of one of the most prolific cyber attacks of all time, SolarWinds is being ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 01 Nov 2023
Australia’s critical infrastructure a ‘high-interest’ target, according to first CISC review
State-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals remain a threat to essential systems and public works – and War Thunder, ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 01 Nov 2023
40+ nation global alliance agrees to not pay hackers ransomware payments
An over-40-nation alliance led by the US has vowed never to pay ransom to hackers following cyber breaches in an effort ...
Don’t send nudes: Facebook malvertising campaign uses ‘lewd images’ to trick victims
Hijacked Facebook accounts are being used to lure victims into downloading info-stealing malware.
British Library investigates system outage following cyber attack
The website and online systems of the British Library are suffering from a major outage after being hit by a cyber ...
AFP successfully blocks 10 child abuse sites
Multijurisdiction effort sees sites blocked and the predators that use them tracked.
Over 632k US defence and justice department emails exposed in MOVEit hack
Five months after the breach occurred, high-profile targets continue to join the long list of victims affected by the ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 31 Oct 2023
Industry responds to the White House’s AI executive order
The Biden administration’s newly announced “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of ...
US government issues executive order for AI regulation
Answering demands for government regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), the White House has announced an executive ...
Tesserent boss warns of AI tools in the hands of hackers
ChatGPT and its AI-powered brethren are a boon to many industries – including criminal ones.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 31 Oct 2023
Cloudflare detects 350m DDoS attacks per day
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are spiking sharply in Australia and around the globe, according to cloud ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 30 Oct 2023
ID verification security a top priority, says Law Council of Australia
There is a sweet irony to identity verification. On the one hand, it’s a tried and tested tool that is proven effective ...
Australia hosts joint cyber warfare training operations with the US
Cyber experts from the US and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have partnered to launch cyber warfare training ...
Security researcher uses simple trick to access data of more than 1,000 Teslas
An unsecured open-source app is leaving a mountain of data open to anyone looking for it.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 30 Oct 2023
SA patient records deleted in ‘isolated data incident’
The records of 121 SA Health patients have been impacted, along with contact details of over 12,000 more patients.
LockBit ransomware gang claims Boeing data breach
Aerospace giant Boeing is “assessing the claim” as the date of publication counts down following a hack.
David Hollingworth • Sat, 28 Oct 2023
Uber cops $412,500 ACMA fine for spam emails
Rideshare operator Uber was fined for failing to include an unsubscribe option on millions of emails.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 27 Oct 2023
Russian hackers claim takedown of WA’s Transperth transport agency with DDoS attack
The Noname057(16) hacking group has targeted four Australian websites, with varying success.
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