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Tuesday May 12, 2026

  Security  

Trend Micro's enterprise unit shuts Sydney engineering team

Exclusive: R&D moved to Asia.

By Juha Saarinen

 

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Parallel bug discovery triggers premature Linux LPE disclosure
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Parallel bug discovery triggers premature Linux LPE disclosure

Full set of patches still to arrive for Dirty Frag privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

By Juha Saarinen

 
'ClickFix' attack tricks users into hacking themselves, ACSC warns
  Security  

'ClickFix' attack tricks users into hacking themselves, ACSC warns

"Verify that you are human" prompt used to deliver Vidar Stealer malware.

By Juha Saarinen

 
'PCPJack' cloud worm hijacks TeamPCP hacker infrastructure
  Security  

'PCPJack' cloud worm hijacks TeamPCP hacker infrastructure

Unknown threat actor's malware steals credentials.

By Juha Saarinen

 
Cleanaway tidies up endpoint security
  State of Security 2026  

Cleanaway tidies up endpoint security

Reducing waste by consolidating suppliers.

By Brad Howarth

 
 
 
 
Aus universities and TAFEs investigating exposure to Canvas cyber incident
  Security  

Aus universities and TAFEs investigating exposure to Canvas cyber incident

Learning management system vendor targeted.

By Ry Crozier

 
Qld gov says students, staff caught in Canvas cyber incident
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Qld gov says students, staff caught in Canvas cyber incident

"Early advice" suggests limited data fields compromised.

By Ry Crozier

 
Top Google scientist says EU data measures pose privacy risk for users
  Security  

Top Google scientist says EU data measures pose privacy risk for users

Red team reidentified users from anonymised data in under two hours.

By Foo Yun Chee

 
EU says OpenAI offers to open access to cyber security model
  Security  

EU says OpenAI offers to open access to cyber security model

Anthropic not there yet.

By Staff Writer

 
Zero-trust is not a product – it’s a philosophy
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Zero-trust is not a product – it’s a philosophy

As cyber threats accelerate, zero trust is key to verifying identities and reducing risk.

By Staff Writer

 
 
 
 

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Services Australia describes fraud, debt-related machine learning use cases
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Medibank reveals attack vector and cost of 2022 security breach
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Medibank reveals attack vector and cost of 2022 security breach

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Defender yanks root certs as Windows updates blocks backups
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Defender yanks root certs as Windows updates blocks backups

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