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During a hearing held by the Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit last month into the cybersecurity resilience of Commonwealth entities, the federal opposition poked holes in current reporting requirements and highlighted a lack of accountability for when Commonwealth entities come up short. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) faced the firing line, with […] More
In March, T-Mobile revealed a security incident in which cyberattackers were able to successfully infiltrate the firm’s email services, leading to the compromise of T-Mobile customer and employee information, as well as staff email accounts. Names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, plan information, and billing information may have been stolen. Via: ZDNet More
When it comes to thwarting foreign interference through social media platforms, Twitter believes what is important is to approach the issue as a broad geopolitical challenge, not one of content moderation, saying that government needs to assume some of the responsibility. “Removal of content alone will not address this challenge and while it does play […] More
Image: Joomla team The team behind the Joomla open source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach last week. The incident took place after a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left a full backup of the JRD site (resources.joomla.org) on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket owned by their own company. […] More
Image: ZDNet (provided) A hacker has leaked online today the database of Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web services. The leaked data was obtained after the hacker breached DH earlier this year, on March 10, 2020. At the time, DH owner Daniel Winzen told ZDNet the hacker breached his […] More
Trickbot malware has been updated with a new method of propagation which makes it even harder to detect. Starting life as a banking trojan, Trickbot first emerged in 2016 but in the years since it has been repeatedly re-purposed for other means including being used as a fully-fledged information stealer, as well as providing backdoor […] More
Twitter is keeping a close eye on the President Donald Trump’s messages at the moment. Earlier today it placed a public interest notice on one of Trump’s tweets. The President tweeted “….These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him […] More
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has launched a new advertising campaign designed to divert young people searching for cybercrime services to white hat alternatives. As spotted by cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, using a UK IP address when searching Google for particular terms that can relate to cybercrime, such as Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire, […] More
