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Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would always look at ways to strengthen Medicare.

Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history

Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.

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Cybercriminals are targeting private schools with ransomware attacks.

Private school students’ personal data proves prime target for hackers

Cybercriminals see private schools as increasingly attractive extortion targets and are threatening to publish sensitive data on the dark web.

  • Matthew Knott
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Richard Marles.

Australia takes rare step of blaming China for backing cyberattacks

It is the first time Australian agencies have taken the lead in attributing cyberattacks to hacking group APT40 and naming the Ministry of State Security as a sponsor of the operations.

  • David Crowe
IPH Ltd is under a trading halt after reporting a “cyber incident” to the ASX.

How this small non-profit group beat a malicious cyberattack

Hackers attempted to commit credit card fraud against UN Women Australia, but its chief executive says the group managed to beat the attackers with the help of its technology partners.

  • David Swan
Federal police and government agencies are probing this latest large-scale data hack.

Police investigate large-scale healthcare data breach at MediSecure

Federal police are investigating after the Melbourne-based healthcare business was targeted in a ransomware data breach.

  • David Swan and Jessica McSweeney
Firstmac customers are only now learning of their data being breached, weeks after the Brisbane-based lender was hacked.

Mortgage lender suffers hack, credit card details published on dark web

Firstmac customers are being warned they may need to replace their identity documents after copies of them were stolen by a ransomware gang.

  • David Swan
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Russian national named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, was named by Law enforcement in the US, UK and Australia as the organisational mastermind behind the notorious LockBit ransomware group.

Unmasked: Notorious Russian cyber criminal who plundered hospitals with ransomware

Attacks by the Lockbit ransomware operation targeted over 100 hospitals and healthcare companies worldwide. Now the world knows Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is the mastermind.

  • Rob Harris
St Vincent’s is the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider.

St Vincent’s Health falls victim to cyberattack

The hospital and aged care provider says it is urgently investigating what data has been stolen.

  • David Swan
A cyberattack crippled MelbourneIT and its thousands of client websites on the morning of April 13, 2017.

Hackers’ honeypot: customer data storage laws set to be wound back

Businesses will be forced to report hacks to the government as part of a sweeping $600 million cybersecurity plan.

  • Matthew Knott
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says the government is steering a “world-leading” partnership with major companies to proactively block cyber threats.

‘Stop hackers in their tracks’: Corporate giants muscle up against cyber threats

A new National Cyber Intel Partnership will see major telcos, banks and other companies working together to proactively block online scams and malware aimed at defrauding Australians.

  • Lisa Visentin

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