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Qantas hack exposes customers – yet again
Bart Hogeveen | July 5, 2025The 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.
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Rethinking cyber crime
Annie-Mei Forster | May 22, 2025Australia 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.
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Don’t listen to that little bird
Open Forum | May 2, 2025As the hours tick down to the opening of the polls on Saturday, Australians should be extra alert for scams and misinformation.
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Combating cyber-espionage
Bart Hogeveen | February 23, 2025Cyber-espionage against companies, agencies and governments in democratic countries perpetrated by hostile states and criminals is a growing threat to national security.
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War in the clouds
Andrew Horton | November 10, 2024Relying on foreign cloud providers raises serious concerns about who ultimately controls our data and the systems that host it.
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New cyber laws at last?
David Tuffley | October 15, 2024The Albanese government has introduced long-awaited legislation to parliament to improve Australia’s resilience against cyber attacks.
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Seeing off the cyberattacks
David Rajkovic | August 6, 2024Hostile 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?
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Crowdstrike highlights global complacency
Andrew Horton | July 24, 2024The 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.
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Rolling back ransomware
Erza Aminanto | June 28, 2024Criminals 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?
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Cyberwars
Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann | June 14, 2024Malicious 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.
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Mapping global cybercrime
Open Forum | April 15, 2024Three 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.
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Hacking the internet
Sigi Goode | April 9, 2024Microsoft 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.