The Latest Breaking News on Cybersecurity

The Australian Signals Directorate will boost the nation's cyber shield as the defence force prepares to handle coveted nuclear secrets from the US and UK.

Australia's cyber security agency reports a significant increase in the number of attacks from online criminals, with everyone urged to be vigilant.

The Australia Cyber Security Centre says cybercrime reports jumped 13 per cent to 76,000 last financial year, meaning the agency is receiving a report every seven minutes compared to every eight minutes the year before.

Fraud, online shopping and banking among most commonly reported crimes, but ransomware ‘most destructive’, ASD says

Millions of Australians have had their privacy breached in recent cyber attacks against Optus, Medibank and other companies.

As UK Cyber Week 2022 kicks off, we take a look at some of the most influential experts and thought leaders in the space

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International computer-hacking syndicates will be eyeing off more Australian targets after a string of recent data breaches, a cybersecurity expert says.

Payment-seeking software made by Russian hackers was used in three quarters of all the ransomware schemes reported to a U.S. financial crime agency in the second half of 2021, a Treasury Department analysis released on Tuesday showed.

A command post to direct the nation's defense against cyber-attacks is being planned for the Cabinet Secretariat, according to government sources.

An initial £6.35m package was mobilised in response to a rising ‘tempo’ of Russian cyber activity following the invasion, the Government said.