The Latest Breaking News on Cybersecurity

Parent company of Australian telco says that the personal data of 129,000 customers and 23 businesses was obtained in a cyber-attack two years ago

A 19-year-old Sydney man is charged after allegedly using information obtained during last month’s Optus data breach to blackmail people.

It’s not yet clear who carried out the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last week, although many Western nations are suspicious it was an act of sabotage by Russia.

Data breaches are becoming commonplace in both small and big tech companies. The most recent victim was Australian telecommunications company Optus, resulting in unauthorised access to the identity data of roughly 10 million people.

Australia's largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a disclosure that comes two weeks after its main rival Optus was left reeling by a massive cyberattack.

A possible indication of spyware operating on your phone is constant slowing down or lagging

The Optus data breach "should strike fear in the hearts of all directors and senior managers" in Australia, says Governance Institute of Australia chief Megan Motto.

The expansion in UK-based cyber training builds on the work of the Defence Cyber School.

Hackings, network sabotage and other cyber warfare campaigns are being intensely deployed by both sides as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on, though the covert operations have not proved decisive on the battlefield -- at least so far. Western allies initially feared a tsunami of cyberattacks against Ukraine's military command…

How did the Optus hack happen and what’s the likelihood of another data breach happening again? We asked a couple of cybersecurity experts.

Paris (AFP) - Hackings, network sabotage and other cyber warfare campaigns are being intensely deployed by both sides as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on, though the covert operations have not proved decisive on the battlefield -- at least so far.