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There’s a rumble afoot in the world of cyber security. On one side are the experts behind the common vulnerability and exposures team, who have just listed a new CVE ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 23 Dec 2024
TSA responds to no-fly list leak with new security directives
The fallout from last week’s leaking of the United States’ no-fly list is continuing, with the Transportation Security Administration sharing a new security directive ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 31 Jan 2023
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. Sebastien Raoult — who hails from the French commune of ...
David Hollingworth • Mon, 30 Jan 2023
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 ransomware.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 27 Jan 2023
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 suffered a high-profile cyber breach last year.
Collin Penman • Fri, 27 Jan 2023
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 intellectual property and military secrets secure, ...
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 of Duolingo users for sale.
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 things cyber, as ticket seller Live Nation blames ...
David Hollingworth • Wed, 25 Jan 2023
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 2022 — and it is pretty bad.
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. The developer revealed overnight that the source code ...
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 operating under the auspices of the US-led Counter ...
David Hollingworth • Tue, 24 Jan 2023
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 phishing scam that began in 2018.
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 for a popular air, ground, and flight combat ...
Robert Dougherty and David Hollingworth • Mon, 23 Jan 2023
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