Qantas hack exposes customers – yet again

The hack of a Qantas customer contact centre in Manila has exposed, once again, the vulnerability of customer data held by Australia’s largest and supposedly most trusted companies.

Rethinking cyber crime

Australia is seen as a soft target for cybercriminals and our fragmented cybercrime response makes individuals, companies and institutions more vulnerable to state sponsored attacks and criminal hacks.

Don’t listen to that little bird

As the hours tick down to the opening of the polls on Saturday, Australians should be extra alert for scams and misinformation.

Combating cyber-espionage

Cyber-espionage against companies, agencies and governments in democratic countries perpetrated by hostile states and criminals is a growing threat to national security.

War in the clouds

Relying on foreign cloud providers raises serious concerns about who ultimately controls our data and the systems that host it.

New cyber laws at last?

The Albanese government has introduced long-awaited legislation to parliament to improve Australia’s resilience against cyber attacks.

Seeing off the cyberattacks

Hostile state hackers and cyber-criminals are repeatedly attacking key Australian institutions, including our hospitals and energy systems, so will new measures help curb this threat?

Crowdstrike highlights global complacency

The Crowdstrike fiasco highlights the fragility of the digital economy and drawbacks of a ‘just in time’ service system with no safeguards, fallbacks and spare capacity when things start going wrong.

Rolling back ransomware

Criminals around the world use malicious software to lock access to a victim’s data and demand a ransom for its recovery, so what can we do to protect ourselves?

Cyberwars

Malicious cyber actors are continuously targeting critical Australian infrastructure, and, unfortunately, they seem to be successful. According to a recent commercial cyber security report, Australia is the tenth most targeted country for phishing attacks.

Mapping global cybercrime

Three years of intensive research by an international team of researchers has informed the first ‘World Cybercrime Index’ which ranks Russia as the major threat to global cyber security.

Hacking the internet

Microsoft software developer Andres Freund may have saved the internet from a major, long-con, hacking attempt when he discovered a backdoor in XZ Utils, a data compression utility used by Linux-based computer applications.