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CERT-UA reveals details of a Russian malware campaign backed by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 23 Dec 2024
Scam warning as businesses recover from outages
Industry leaders have warned of an influx of scams as businesses battle to get back online following last week’s CrowdStrike outage.
Liam Garman • Mon, 22 Jul 2024
University of Queensland, AUSCERT, and IDCARE team up for Indo-Pacific cyber security program
The new program will provide cyber security and scam response support to microbusinesses in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
David Hollingworth • Mon, 22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike’s chief security officer Shawn Henry admits, ‘We failed you’
CrowdStrike’s security chief has said that he and the company take 19 July’s cyber security patch failure personally.
The industry speaks: Everyone’s talking about the CrowdStrike outage
Industry experts and observers had a lot to say about last week’s CrowdStrike incident, but the long story made short is it was not a good look.
National Coordination Mechanism continues to meet over CrowdStrike outage
Australia – and the world – continues to deal with the fallout from Friday’s (19 July) cyber security outage that knocked millions of Windows PCs offline.
CrowdStrike CEO releases full statement after global PC outage
George Kurtz, founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, has apologised unreservedly after an update to its Falcon cyber security platform caused crashes and chaos around the world
David Hollingworth • Sat, 20 Jul 2024
NHS faces increased 999 calls, GP and hospital disruptions following Microsoft global outage
Calls to emergency services in the UK have skyrocketed after a CrowdStrike update caused outages across the globe.
Daniel Croft • Sat, 20 Jul 2024
Exclusive: South Australian council confirms LockBit ransomware attack
The LockBit ransomware gang is threatening to publish more than 40,000 files stolen from the Wattle Range Council.
David Hollingworth • Fri, 19 Jul 2024
5 alleged scammers arrested following National Day of Action targeting SIM box fraud
The Australian Federal Police has coordinated a raft of state police forces in a nationwide operation against large-scale phishing campaigns.
Liverpool FC halts ticket sales following cyber attack
Liverpool football club has halted the sale of its member Premier League tickets after it suffered a cyber attack.
Daniel Croft • Fri, 19 Jul 2024
BREAKING: MediSecure confirms 12.9m Australians impacted by May data breach
The administrators of the insolvent e-prescription company have released details of the May hack and the scope of impact – but questions remain.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 18 Jul 2024
AT&T reveals arrest made following April cyber attack
An arrest has been made relating to the April cyber attack on US multinational telco AT&T.
Daniel Croft • Thu, 18 Jul 2024
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