December 2024
- Opinion
- Cybersecurity
Are businesses ready to be outed for paying ransoms to cybercrooks?
No Australian organisation has ever had to publicly discuss making payments to hackers, but new mandatory cyber reporting reforms will change this.
- Alastair MacGibbon and Jordan Newnham
November 2024
Pressure points hackers use to get bigger payments than ever
Hackers are targeting HR, health, finance and legal data as a way of exerting maximum pressure and leveraging ever-larger ransom payments out of companies.
- Max Mason
October 2024
- Opinion
- Opinion
The new cybersecurity bills will do nothing to create trust
Companies need to know that information revealed in a cybersecurity emergency won’t be used to sue them. These bills don’t offer much assurance.
- Lesley Seebeck
September 2024
Aussie cyber firm goes it alone with US expansion
Trent Telford is on a high after his firm Cocoon Data scored a Google deal and made progress cracking the US market, but he says it’s no thanks to the Australian government.
- Matthew Cranston
August 2024
Trump’s campaign says its emails were hacked
The former president’s team accused Iran of stealing sensitive internal documents, a day after Microsoft warned of foreign interference in the US election.
- Bill Barrow
July 2024
A new battleground: Why companies need a digital bodyguard
New cybersecurity threats and the targeting of senior executives have prompted businesses to adopt a ‘whole of organisation’ approach.
- Ben Powell
Huge cyber fines to be ‘Ford Pinto’ moment Australian business needs
The threat of business-crushing penalties could change the economics of storing sensitive data and cybersecurity investment.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cyber security
Cyber is our fastest growing national security threat: O’Neil
The Home Affairs Minister says Labor’s plans to boost Australia’s defences against increasing online risks are already delivering results.
- Tom McIlroy
AT&T hack undermines US national security, experts say
The telco giant said a hacker had compromised its network and stolen records of calls and text messages from nearly all of its 100 million wireless customers.
- Ryan Gallagher
- Exclusive
- China relations
New ‘alliance’ calls out China’s bad cyber behaviour
Months of behind-the-scenes work helped convince Japan and South Korea to join an Australian-led statement slamming China over cyberattacks.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Opinion
Asian allies key to our cyberdefence against China
Japan and South Korea have for the first time joined Five Eyes allies led by Australia in directly calling out Chinese cyberattacks, but more can be done.
- Alastair MacGibbon
Who are the Chinese hackers named by Australia?
They are based in China’s south and have allegedly operated via a front company called the Hainan Xiandun Technology Development Co.
- Nick Bonyhady
Labor under pressure to confront China over hacking
The government is under pressure to confront Beijing after its main counterintelligence agency named a hacking group linked to China’s Ministry of State Security.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy and Nick Bonyhady
Chinese hackers unveiled; Telstra hikes prices; Bapcor shuns $1.8b bid
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Why you shouldn’t set a deadline if you want to be more resilient
The strongest leaders believe in themselves and don’t try to set timelines for when a difficult period will pass, says Macquarie Technology Group CEO David Tudehope.
- Updated
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
June 2024
Rare earths miner hacked after Chinese investors ordered out
A ransomware group has posted CEO emails and sensitive commercial data from miner Northern Minerals on the dark web after Chinese investors were ordered to sell.
- Paul Smith, Elouise Fowler and Andrew Tillett
Risk for critical infrastructure over China-manufactured drones
Australian critical infrastructure is at risk of spying and disruption with a lack of government guidance over the growing use of unmanned drones to monitor and carry out menial work, new research says.
- Max Mason
May 2024
The next Cold War is taking place in a chilled data centre
Any doubt AI is now the most significant national security issue for the US and China was laid to rest this month.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Cybersecurity
Microsoft CEO should be fired over cyber failure
A cyber breach slammed by the US government for leaving customers exposed is down to a culture led by Satya Nadella of profit over security.
- James Turner
Man arrested in Sydney’s west over clubs data breach
Disgruntled software developers who claim not to have been paid are being blamed for releasing details of more than 1 million pub and club patrons in NSW.
- Updated
- Max Mason, David Marin-Guzman and Zoe Samios