A former student allegedly demanded about $40,000 worth of cryptocurrency during a series of cyber attacks on a university.
Steve Zemek and Brendan Kearns
Maritime patrols off Australian waters recorded a surge in illegal fishing boats with the number of foreign vessels doubling in the past five months.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Company workers aren’t the only ones facing an AI tidal wave, with one state announcing a new $28m drive to embed the tech revolution into its public sector.
Duncan Evans
Online criminals have compromised thousands of websites, including those of Australian businesses, in an attempt to steal users' passwords.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The consumer watchdog is calling on businesses to share data to combat financial scams, as the value of money lost to criminals soars.
Adrian Black
One of Australia’s largest lenders has sounded the alarm on a common security measure widely used by the banking sector – saying it may not be as secure as people think.
Cameron Micallef
Microsoft users are faced with losing their passwords forever as Authenticator shifts to a different management system.
Karen Grace Prince
Cyber criminals are growing in number and sophistication, warns Australia's top online defender who urges businesses to prepare themselves for the worst.
A massive data bungle has resulted in the biometric data of students being collected by Microsoft Teams “for weeks” before the Education Department was alerted.
Summer Liu
Australia Post has issued an urgent warning to their customers, as a new scam fuelled by advancing technology sweeps across the nation.
Georgie Kibel
Australia is among the world's biggest targets for online attacks and artificial intelligence technology is making intrusions harder to detect.
One state is set to bring in new laws to combat a “scourge” of cybercrime after Aussies lost more than $2bn last year alone.
Nathan Schmidt
Australians have been warned of a silent threat where thousands of individual bank details have been compromised.
A ransomware attack has exposed the personal data of more than 2200 patients at a major public hospital who took part in a sleep study.
Farid Farid
Ransomware is on the rise in Australia, with an analysis of data breaches showing more online attacks come with a financial motive.
Personal information has been stolen from a major Australian university again and posted on the dark web.
Blair Jackson
Artificial intelligence is being used to craft more dangerous cyber attacks, putting some of Australia's most critical industry sectors at greatest risk.
Australia’s position in the world is growing darker and now Labor and the Coalition will battle for votes on who can be trusted on national security. HERE ARE THE KEY POLICIES
Jessica Wang
Criminals have stolen money from Australian superannuation accounts in a coordinated attack targeting lump sum withdrawals from several funds.
Four people have lost $500,000 in a major cyberattack that targeted Australian super funds and didn’t just steal money.
Emma Kirk
Thousands of Aussies have been affected by a data breach that exposed personal identifiable information online.
Aussies will need to wait about a week before finding out what data was viewed by a hacker following a major breach of a state government website.
Joanne Williamson, Clareese Packer
One major telco is introducing a new feature for phones to help millions of Aussies to avoid being caught in the scam crisis.
Holly Truelove
An MP has delivered a sharp attack on Australia’s $43m human rights body, suggesting it should be folded up for failing to defend Jewish Aussies.
