The federal government has announced that the University of Melbourne and Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University will be leading the country’s efforts to boost cybersecurity capabilities by addressing the industry’s skills shortage. The universities will share AU$1.91 million over four years to help build the required expertise and job-ready skills needed by the industry and […]

The US government has taken the unusual step of naming the North Korean government as behind a hacking group it has dubbed “Hidden Cobra”. The US computer emergency response team (CERT) today issued an alert revealing the group had been targeting the media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors globally since 2009. While the US government has labelled the

Apple’s been hit by a weak link in its own supply chain: employees of a distributor have been detained under suspicion of selling iPhone users’ personal data on underground forums. According to the Hong Kong Free Press, Chinese police have detained 22 people, 20 of whom were employees of a company described in a police

Microsoft’s free thinkers have come up with a radical idea for containing global cyberattacks: set up a non-governmental organisation (NGO) whose job it would be to name perpetrators. It sounds simple enough and, as the A-Team’s Hannibal used to say, “it’s so crazy it just might work.” Or is it just plain crazy? Undoubtedly, Microsoft

If you’re a customer of UK ISP Virgin Media and connect with the Super Hub 2 or Super Hub 2ac you’ll be pleased to know the company patched a significant security flaw during May. Helpfully, Virgin’s automatic updating via the TR-069 remote management protocol means this issue should already be fixed for everyone bar the

While vulnerabilities in medical systems continue to leave patients and their data vulnerable to ransomware attacks, researchers identified a new way patients can put hospital networks at risk. In addition to the obvious threat of opening oneself to doxing attacks, which could be enabled by disclosing personal information on the forms themselves, researchers warn you could also

Canadian federal agencies successfully withstood the May WannaCry ransomware campaign, showing nominal impact from the attack, thanks in no small part to Shared Services Canada, a department that acts as an IT and cybersecurity services provider for the Canadian government, according to John Glowacki Jr., COO of SSC. Created in 2011 by merging IT staff from 42

The intelligence data on ISIS shared by President Donald Trump with Russian officials was gathered by Israeli operatives who hacked into the terror group’s networks. The president caused quite an uproar last month after sharing intelligence on ISIS gathered by an ally with Russian Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, then

With one month of hindsight, and a lot of research, under the industry’s belt, analysts are still in the process of building a complete picture of the WannaCry ransomware attack that took the world by storm, but some points are firmed up. Tom Levasseur, CGI’s vulnerability assessment and penetration specialist, gave the attendees at SC

Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will discuss next month plans to force tech companies to break encryption on their products. The so-called Five Eyes nations have a long-standing agreement to gather and share intelligence from across the globe. They will meet in Canada with a focus on