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Six former eBay staff charged with cyberstalking
Campaign waged against critical blog.
Jun 16 2020 6:48AM
Amazon to block police use of facial recognition for a year
While new laws are brokered.
Jun 11 2020 8:08AM
Apple patches iOS to address unc0ver jailbreak
Which exploited zero-day in Darwin XNU kernel.
Jun 2 2020 6:27AM
Cisco servers compromised using SaltStack flaws
Impacted six servers associated with older versions of a network simulation tool.
May 29 2020 6:03AM
RMIT to set up 'business-driven' cyber security research centre
To be led by Deakin cyber security academic.
Mar 3 2020 1:22PM
Edith Cowan University builds $3m SOC
To train students in cyber security.
Jan 29 2020 2:04PM
Wyze accidentally exposes internal analytics database
Finds no evidence it was accessed by anyone.
Dec 30 2019 9:55AM
Maastricht University pulls all IT offline after ransomware attack
Incident under internal and police investigation.
Dec 28 2019 12:49AM
Citrix vulnerability could expose 3500 Aussie companies
Vendor urges admins to mitigate "immediately".
Dec 24 2019 12:11PM
Twitter discloses Android app flaw that could allow account takeovers
Urges users to update.
Dec 21 2019 10:17AM
Police arrest 281 worldwide in BEC scam crackdown
Conspirators 'stole more than 250,000 identities'.
Sep 11 2019 9:30AM
Cloudflare cuts 8chan off from DDoS protection
Though notes it won’t address the root problem.
Aug 5 2019 12:19PM
Wolters Kluwer takes down cloud services after malware infection
Impacts Australian users of CCH software.
May 8 2019 12:57PM
Microsoft opens more security features to O365 E3 users
Through two new subscription offers.
Jan 3 2019 12:15PM
Nova Entertainment suffers data breach
Listener data held on system no longer in regular use.
Dec 29 2018 12:15AM
Encryption committee caught in crossfire as debate flares
Don’t buckle to govt pressure, says industry.
Nov 23 2018 7:10AM
Australia's data breach numbers steady at 245 in three months
Better staff training needed.
Oct 30 2018 10:26AM
Tesco Bank fined $29.5m over 2016 cyber attack
Did not heed warning until after attack began.
Oct 2 2018 12:21PM
ABBYY 'temporary data breach' exposed 200,000 scanned docs
Database left open to internet.
Aug 28 2018 2:40PM
Aussie corporate and government websites with poor HTTPS redirects outed
Coincides with release of Chrome 68.
Jul 25 2018 2:08AM
