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October’s Patch Tuesday reveals 118 vulnerabilities, including multiple instances of in-the-wild exploitation, while ...
Adam Barnett, Lead Software Engineer at Rapid7 • Wed, 09 Oct 2024
New not-for-profit Australian Cyber Network launches
The ACN aims to be “a voice for industry, by industry” in the cyber security sector. We talk to its CEO and chair about ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 09 Oct 2024
Qantas customer passports at risk following frequent flyer cyber theft
Qantas has revealed that the passports of at least almost a thousand customers may have been accessed after two ...
Daniel Croft • Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Ukrainian national pleads guilty to running Raccoon Infostealer malware operation
Mark Sokolovsky pleaded guilty in a US court this week following his arrest by Dutch authorities in 2022.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Oct 2024
American Water disables systems following cyber attack
Major US water and wastewater company American Water has revealed that it had shut down a number of its systems ...
AFP continues to work with Thai counterparts to fight scams, organised crime
Sharing digital forensics skills and experience is a key part of the 30-year-old law enforcement partnership.
AUSCERT announces tabletop incident response exercise
The new Tabletop Exercise Service aims to provide businesses with the “muscle memory” to handle cyber security incidents
Data of every Dutch police officer compromised in suspected state-sponsored cyber attack
The Dutch National Police has disclosed a cyber attack that has compromised the data of all police officers, with ...
NSW government launches Digital Strategy roadmap
The new roadmap tracks five key missions: accessibility, productivity, trust, resilience, and digital skills.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 07 Oct 2024
Cyber security remains a top focus for Australian businesses, but budgets are a challenge
Datacom’s 5th Annual Cloud Report reveals that a lack of money is standing in the way of cyber security uplift.
Outlast developer says production slowed by cyber attack, 1.8TB reportedly stolen
The developers behind the Outlast video game series have revealed that they suffered a cyber attack and that data was ...
Daniel Croft • Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager
Ivanti has updated a May 2024 security advisory, warning that an “unrestricted file upload vulnerability” has been ...
David Hollingworth • Fri, 04 Oct 2024
NSW IPC reports government, councils and universities suffered 52 data breaches in 7 months
NSW universities, government agencies, and councils collectively reported 52 data breaches in the seven months ending in ...
Data of Australian defence personnel up for auction via real-time bidding advertising platforms
The live location data – and much more – of Australians is shared almost 450 times a day on a raft of digital ...
At-risk NSW government agencies have not set deadlines to address cyber issues
A state audit has revealed that a large majority of assessed NSW government agencies have cyber risk levels above their ...
Former UK defence secretary named partner with UK defence and cyber security firm
Sir Ben Wallace has been made partner for global investment firm Boka Capital after leaving office.
Robert Dougherty • Thu, 03 Oct 2024
More than 37k DrayTek routers across Australia and New Zealand are vulnerable to hacking
Security researchers have found 14 new vulnerabilities in 24 models of Vigor routers, with more than 700,000 exposed ...
David Hollingworth • Thu, 03 Oct 2024
Aussie banks and Meta team up to take down celebrity scams on Facebook
The social media giant has removed more than 8,000 “celeb bait” scams following Australian Financial Crimes Exchange ...
The industry speaks: Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024
This year’s theme is “Secure Our World”, and that’s exactly what these cyber security experts and industry luminaries ...
Deloitte and Palo Alto expand security partnership to JAPAC, EMEA regions
Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte have announced today (2 October) an expansion of their partnership into the Japan and ...
Daniel Croft • Wed, 02 Oct 2024