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Clive Palmer after the election campaign launch of his Trumpet of Patriots party in April.

Clive Palmer’s political parties hacked in major breach

The organisation fears the ransomware attack has led to the theft of its emails, documents, and electronic records, threatening the personal data of all those who have been in contact with it.

  • Nick Newling

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NSW hospitals are at risk of hacks because of lax cybersecurity standards, a leaked government audit has revealed

Sensitive NSW medical records at risk of falling into hackers’ hands, damning leak reveals

The state’s public hospitals are failing to meet cybersecurity standards despite measures costing taxpayers $40 million a year, a leaked government audit has revealed.

  • Angus Thomson
Ugochukwu George Anyakorah, a Nigerian living in Sydney, was working for a cyberscam syndicate and linked to the Buccaneers, a Nigerian campus cult, according to court documents.

The Nigerian ‘blood cult’ targeting lonely Australians with romance scams

A Sydney father was part of a Nigerian scam that took millions of dollars off lonely Australians, defrauded businesses and siphoned the money to a terrifying African gang.

  • Perry Duffin
Customers of Australia’s major banks are being urged to manually update their mobile wallets in order to avoid a looming technical issue that may cause payments chaos on New Year’s eve.

Eftpos customers warned of potential New Year’s Eve chaos

Cardholders at Australia’s major banks are being urged to manually update their mobile wallets.

  • David Swan
Angie McMahon accepting the award for best independent release at last week’s ARIA Awards.

‘Burn it down’: Band manager slams Music Victoria over awards stuff-up

The publicly voted categories of the Music Victoria Awards, which were announced last month, were hit by a “targeted action”, organisers have revealed.

  • Karl Quinn

The PM is sigma, but his ban plan belongs in the skibidi toilet

Of course Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media, but we cannot return to the golden days when it didn’t exist.

  • Alexandra Smith
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Hackers claim to have compromised a prominent Perth medical research facility.

Perth’s Harry Perkins medical research institute under cyber-attack

A ransomware group known as Medusa says the 4.6 terabytes of data includes vision from internal security cameras and is now freely available on the dark web.

  • Michael Genovese
For many Aussie parents this horse has already bolted, because kids as young as 10 already have accounts on the sly.

A social media ban for under-16s won’t work. Here’s what will

Calls have been growing louder for age limits to be raised from 13 to 16. To add to the momentum, some say a ban is the only way to protect our kids. But is it?

  • Nicole Jameson
Ong walked out of court with a suspended prison sentence.

Perth university student avoids jail after hacking into UWA’s system

Ming Han Ong, 24, is an aspiring software engineer. During his sentencing in Perth Magistrate’s Court on Friday, the court heard he hacked the system for the challenge.

  • Jamie Freestone
Bitcoin surged as much as 10 per cent on October 16 when a crypto news site incorrectly posted on X that BlackRock had been approved to list a spot ETF.

SEC social media account hacked to falsely say Bitcoin ETFs approved

A highly anticipated decision by the US market regulator on whether to approve a spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded fund quickly morphed into a major cybersecurity incident.

  • Allyson Versprille

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