Richard Chirgwin

Richard Chirgwin is a veteran of Australia's tech press, covering IT, telecommunications, security, networking, and protocols. Prior to iTnews, he worked at The Register for 9 years.

Recent articles by Richard Chirgwin

Queensland putting $250 million in fibre backhaul from Townsville to Mount Isa

Queensland putting $250 million in fibre backhaul from Townsville to Mount Isa

Piggybacked on Copperstring 2023 power transmission project.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 5 2023 11:21AM Telco/ISP
Atlassian patches under-attack Confluence zero-day

Atlassian patches under-attack Confluence zero-day

Self-hosted data centre and server instances targeted.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 5 2023 7:10AM Security
NSW EPA seeks digital strategy overseer

NSW EPA seeks digital strategy overseer

Focusing on its data and geospatial platforms.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 4 2023 12:27PM Strategy
Malware once again a headache for npm

Malware once again a headache for npm

Fortiguard finds data-thieving packages.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 4 2023 11:05AM Security
Exim mail servers worldwide need urgent patches

Exim mail servers worldwide need urgent patches

Three out of six issues already fixed.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 4 2023 11:02AM Security
Government considers licensing scheme for telco retailers

Government considers licensing scheme for telco retailers

Phantom providers could be dodging regulation.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 4 2023 6:53AM Telco/ISP
Another Progress Software file transfer utility vulnerable

Another Progress Software file transfer utility vulnerable

WS_FTP has critical deserialisation bug.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 3 2023 12:13PM Security
Gov stalls on some privacy reforms with conditional support

Gov stalls on some privacy reforms with conditional support

Some recommendations put on the backburner, for now.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 28 2023 12:20PM Strategy
CISA warns China's BlackTech had control of routers

CISA warns China's BlackTech had control of routers

Modified firmware helped state actors snoop on traffic.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 28 2023 10:18AM Security
Cisco patches Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities

Cisco patches Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities

Critical API bug, and more.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 28 2023 10:05AM Security
Swinburne University of Technology seeks new CIO

Swinburne University of Technology seeks new CIO

Leading a team of 150.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 28 2023 7:01AM Strategy
Salesforce cloud outage caused by security change

Salesforce cloud outage caused by security change

Goes public with post-mortem.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 27 2023 12:34PM Cloud
"Marvin" breathes new life into Bleichenbacher's timing oracle attack

"Marvin" breathes new life into Bleichenbacher's timing oracle attack

RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption is ancient and should not be used.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 27 2023 10:02AM Security
Juniper Networks acknowledges new spin on firewall vulnerability

Juniper Networks acknowledges new spin on firewall vulnerability

Patches against fileless RCE.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 27 2023 9:55AM Security
Predator exploit patched in iPhones, iPads

Predator exploit patched in iPhones, iPads

After Egyptian MP targeted.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 25 2023 12:14PM Security
APVMA added to HWL Ebsworth breach list

APVMA added to HWL Ebsworth breach list

Two tranches of documents affected.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 25 2023 12:10PM Security
Medibank incurred $7.5 million in direct tech costs after cyber attack

Medibank incurred $7.5 million in direct tech costs after cyber attack

Admin costs dominated breach expenses.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 21 2023 12:03PM Security
Token error left Microsoft data exposed

Token error left Microsoft data exposed

Included 38TB of internal info, researchers claim.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 21 2023 6:59AM Security
Digital ID legislation lands at last

Digital ID legislation lands at last

ACCC anointed as regulator.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 20 2023 11:33AM Strategy
GitLab patches critical vulnerability

GitLab patches critical vulnerability

Attacker could imitate other users.
Richard Chirgwin Sep 20 2023 10:33AM Security

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