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The “world-leading” legislation aims to make Australia a hard nut to crack for scammers.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation sues DOGE over privacy violations
EFF has filed a lawsuit against the Musk-led agency Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Personnel ...
Exclusive: Cyber attack on Australian education centre claimed by KillSec
Threat actors have claimed a cyber attack on an Australian private education institution, claiming to have stolen ...
Daniel Croft • Thu, 13 Feb 2025
CommBank outage halts online trading for thousands of merchants
Thousands of merchants across the country have been left without the ability to process online payments thanks to an ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Fog ransomware group claims January hack of the University of Notre Dame Australia
Hackers claim to have stolen more than 62 gigabytes of data from the Australian university, including student medical ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Exclusive: Spectrum Medical Imaging warns patients medical data exposed following ransomware attack
The Sydney-based medical practice has confirmed a data breach impacting patient records following the January INC Ransom ...
AUKUS members sanction Medibank hacker and LockBit infrastructure provider
The Australian government has imposed sanctions on a Russian service used by cyber criminals, including those behind the ...
Exclusive: Natures Organics confirms Medusa ransomware attack
Hackers claim to have stolen passport and driver’s licence scans and other personal information from an Australian ...
Australia suffered a cyber attack every second in 2024, 47m data breaches
Australia has secured the number 11 spot in the race of nations most affected by cyber attacks, after it suffered 47 ...
Optus reveals ‘first-of-its-kind’ GenAI workshop for students
Aussie telco Optus becomes the first Trusted eSafety Provider to offer student workshops focusing on “online safety in ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Australian Cyber Summit 2025 to reveal lessons from top CISOs
Cyber professionals will be shown technical strategies, lessons, and best practices learnt from seasoned enterprise ...
Ransomware gang 8Base members arrested, darknet site seized
A global law enforcement operation has disrupted the operations of a prolific cyber crime group.
Altman says ‘no thank you’ to Musk-led OpenAI buyout bid
Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have offered to buy out ChatGPT-maker for US$97 billion.
Altman inspired by DeepSeek, says AI development costs will drop
OpenAI has promised that the cost of developing new AI models will drop after being seemingly inspired by its new ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 11 Feb 2025
HPE notifies employees of 2023 cyber attack
The business division of PC maker Hewlett Packard is currently informing staff affected by a cyber attack in 2023 that ...
Daniel Croft • Mon, 10 Feb 2025
Fortinet opens brand new Australian headquarters
Cyber security firm Fortinet’s new North Sydney-based Innovation Hub is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region
David Hollingworth • Mon, 10 Feb 2025
CommBank and Telstra extend partnership with new Fraud Indicator tech
The big four bank and the Aussie telco boost anti-scam and fraud-fighting collaboration to detect fraudulently opened ...
SA government announces DeepSeek ban
Following closely behind the federal government, the South Australian government has announced a ban on DeepSeek in ...
‘Operational issue’, not a hack, responsible for PlayStation outage
Sony offers angry gamers five days of free PlayStation Plus membership after a 24-hour PSN outage.
The industry speaks: Safer Internet Day 2025
The theme of this year’s Safer Internet Day is “Together, for a better internet”, and whether you’re a business ...