After Chinese hackers were able to hack into U.S. government email accounts last week, Microsoft’s security systems are now under fire from Congress. A cyber gang based in China was accused of stealing emails from senior U.S. officials in a major security breach through a weakness in Microsoft MSFT.O software. The attacks were allegedly able…

The Australian government is pushing for the use of biometric data to fight off identity thieves amid recent waves of cyber crimes that rocked the country. In the newly released National Strategy for Identity Resilience, the federal government outlined ten principles to protect the identities of Australians, which all state and territory governments approved. Among…

Commentary We have been fools. We will continue to be fooled until our politicians fight communist China’s unrestricted cyber warfare against the United States with more than hot air. The latest evidence of such warfare is a newly published Microsoft report documenting the breathtaking scope of this particular form of communist Chinese aggression. According to…

Medibank shareholders have taken legal action against the private health insurer for not disclosing alleged cyber security “deficiencies”. The class action was filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria and served on Medibank on Wednesday. Medibank reported the massive data breach in October last year after Russian hackers stole the sensitive health records of almost…

The hack of Australian finance firm, Latitude Financial, is worse than initially thought. In mid-March, the consumer finance provider estimated around 328,000 customers had their data stolen by hackers, now that number has ballooned to over 14 million, according to an investor statement. Latitude Group confirmed on March 27 that 7.9 million Australian and New…

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has confirmed that part of its staff and student data was stolen in a cyber attack last month. The university confirmed on Jan. 20 that data belonging to nearly 2,500 current employees, several former employees, and 17 current and 50 former students was stolen in a cyber attack on…

Cyber attackers have struck Australia again, with one of Australia’s top universities, the Queensland University of Technology, announcing a ransomware attack has hit them. At present, the university notes that there is no evidence any private data was stolen. The university has shut down its IT systems as a precaution, and students have been warned…

The data breach which hit password manager LastPass this August was more serious than earlier perceived, and involved customer passwords being stolen, the company admitted in a latest update on the situation. In the August hack, the company claimed that a threat actor gained internal access to its systems for a period of four days,…

Australia may soon introduce new laws that ban local companies from paying ransom to hackers if they fall victim to data breaches. Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Insiders program on Nov. 13, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the federal government was considering whether it was necessary to make ransom payments illegal following the…

Australia may soon introduce new laws that ban local companies from paying ransom to hackers if they fall victim to data breaches. Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Insiders program on Nov. 13, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the federal government was considering whether it was necessary to make ransom payments illegal following the…