The Latest Breaking News on Cybersecurity

The frosty situation gives the world even less visibility into Russian cyber operations at a time when it is launching repeated digital strikes in Ukraine.

North Korea's internet was hit by the largest outages in months on Thursday, a cybersecurity researcher told Reuters, after similar service interruptions in January were blamed on suspected cyber attacks.

A flock of experts, speakers, and ethical hackers have gathered in Saudi Arabia to partake in Black Hat, a cybersecurity event organized to provide a platform of communication for people interested in cybersecurity and expertise exchange in this field. Black Hat has been organized this year following the success achieved…

Organisations want hire more women with autism, dyslexia and ADHD to work in cybersecurity roles

First Optus, now Medibank; in less than two months we’ve experienced two of the largest personal data breaches in Australia’s history. In both cases the hackers attempted, and failed, to extort a ransom in exchange for not releasing personal data.

The federal government will consider making it illegal to pay the ransom demands of cyber criminals as part of its review of the national cybersecurity strategy. Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil confirmed the government would “look at” the complex issue of ransomware payments after a series of high-profile data breaches,…

Australian organisations told they would receive federal funding from a $68 million cybersecurity grant program that closed last year are still waiting to hear if the commitments will be honoured by the new government which has “paused” the program. At Senate Estimates on Thursday, Industry department officials confirmed some applicants…

When the Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd was hit with a ransomware attack last month, it provided regular updates to its customers, including the revelation that personal information from nearly 10 million of them was exposed. It also followed the government’s guidance on how to respond to the extortion…

The federal government is examining whether to ban companies from paying ransoms to hackers should they suffer a data breach.

Security analysts warn Egypt’s ‘highly intrusive’ app for Sharm el-Sheikh climate talks can monitor communications.

Cybersecurity researchers said they have found evidence of Chinese spyware in Uyghur-language apps that can track the location and harvest the data of Uyghurs living in China and abroad. Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim minority predominantly in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a recent UN report said Beijing may…