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The Malicious Use of AI: How Threat Actors Are Adapting Across Cyber, Physical and Personal Security

📅 18/06/2026

The malicious use of AI is the deliberate use of artificial intelligence tools by hostile actors to plan, scale, or automate harmful activity. It now spans far more than cyber. The same models that help organisations detect vulnerabilities and write…

CCTV security camera on an Australian building, illustrating electronic security system vulnerabilities

When Your Security Systems Become the Threat: Electronic Security in the Age of AI

📅 17/06/2026

A surveillance camera, an access control reader and an alarm panel are bought to reduce risk. Increasingly, when they are poorly secured, they add to it. The same network-connected devices that watch over a site can be quietly turned around…

Why Is Security Awareness Training Essential for Infrastructure Staff?

📅 16/06/2026

In 2026, Australia’s critical infrastructure sectors operate within a complex and volatile threat landscape. This includes utility grids, water networks, maritime ports, transport corridors, and telecommunications hubs. These facilities are priority targets for state-sponsored cyber actors, transnational organised crime syndicates,…

Spain’s Cyber Espionage Spyware Scandals

📅 31/05/2022

Two years ago, a joint investigation by the Guardian and El País revealed the apparent use of Pegasus spyware to target senior pro-independence Catalan politicians. Pegasus is a spyware created by the NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance organization, which allows…

5 Ways To Protect Your Organisation Against Cyber-Attacks

📅 11/05/2022

Cyber-attacks increased at an alarming rate after the Russian-Ukrainian war began, where several government sectors were targeted as well as major companies that hold vital information and data. These incidents make businesses wonder how they can be safe in any…

Quantum Security And Trust Are Top Cyber Security Risks In 2022

📅 09/05/2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses operate, and many have switched to remote working in order to comply with lockdowns and restrictions. This in turn became an opportunity for hackers to widen their range of attack, and to…

Brisbane Dad’s Vendetta Against Internet Scammers

📅 23/03/2022

Ben, an extraordinary Brisbane husband and dad, has been chasing Internet scammers for the past five years. “It is my mission at the moment to make their life a living hell, find their location, IP address etc. and provide it…

Melbourne Man Falls Prey To iPhone Hackers

📅 22/03/2022

A Melbourne man was shocked to discover he had been hacked, become a victim of identity theft, and had his every online movement tracked, after he had his iPhone checked at a local Apple store. After he noticed some unusual…

Australian Businesses Increasing Cybersecurity Budgets

📅 16/03/2022

Cybersecurity budgets within Australian businesses have largely remained stagnant in recent years, even as instances of cyber-attacks continue to increase globally. Executive teams often fail to recognise the level of damage cyber-threats pose to organisations until it’s too late. In…

Australia Joins US and UK in Fight Against Cybercrime

📅 09/03/2022

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) have joined forces with US and UK agencies to call out a recent rise in ransomware attacks, and to advise organisations on how to stay ahead of them. Ransomware Most Serious Cybercrime A report…

Apple Releases Fix For iPhone Vulnerability

📅 08/03/2022

Apple recently patched a zero-day security vulnerability in their WebKit browser engine, issuing updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that otherwise could have allowed attackers to execute code remotely on affected devices. Successful exploitation of this bug allows attackers to…

News Corp Targeted By Hackers

📅 22/02/2022

News Corp recently discovered that their U.S. headquarters had been targeted by hackers. The publishing empire was the target of a cyber-attack which accessed the email accounts of journalists and many others working for the company, via a breach that…

Phishing Scam Targeting Microsoft

📅 08/02/2022

Microsoft has issued warnings about a new phishing scam, which aims to trick users into giving out OAuth permissions to an app, then allowing attackers to read and access their emails. An OAuth permission gives Internet users the option to…

Top 5 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022

📅 14/01/2022

Within the last year, cybersecurity has become an increasingly prominent issue in Australia. There have been several high-profile organisations in Australia that have become targets of cyber-attacks, including the Nine Network and JBS Foods. And cybercrime netted hackers profits of…

Iranian Ransomware Surprises Cyber Security Experts

📅 12/01/2022

In November last year, Australian, UK and US cyber security agencies issued a joint warning, advising that Iranian actors conducted ransomware attacks against US targets and gained access to a wide range of critical infrastructure networks. US officials are advising…

Log4Shell: The Worst Possible Computer Bug?

📅 31/12/2021

Chinese hackers have developed fully weaponized software that has started causing chaos on the web. Security professionals worldwide have been trying to fix one of the worst computer exposures that has been discovered in decades, affecting millions of servers. It…

Australian Organisations Impacted by Conti Ransomware

📅 22/12/2021

Conti ransomware is a human-operated malicious actor that steals information and encrypts it, before asking a ransom from the victim. It is very dangerous due to the speed of its data encryption, and how fast it spreads to other systems.…

GoDaddy Data Breach Impacts 1.2 Million WordPress Users

📅 14/12/2021

On 17 November 2021, an unauthorised third-party access breach was discovered by domain registrar GoDaddy to its Managed WordPress hosting environment. The attacker used a compromised password to access the provisioning system in GoDaddy’s legacy code for Managed WordPress. The…

Budget 2021-22 Boosts The Cybersecurity and Defence Industries

📅 07/06/2021

The release of the 2021-22 Australian Federal Budget has shown a big win for the digital economy in Australia. The Budget revealed there will be $1.2 billion invested towards digital strategy, which includes a $124 million investment for research and…

Hackers Attempt To Sell LinkedIn Data Online

📅 13/05/2021

Another batch of data has been found for sale online, this one containing over 500 million LinkedIn user records including email addresses, phone numbers, links to affiliate social media profiles and professional details. LinkedIn, a social media platform used primarily…

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