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A Melbourne-based service provider called Communication, which is a platinum partner of telecom giant Telstra has become a victim of a series of cyber-attacks including DDoS attacks. Hackread.com can confirm that hackers from the Avaddon ransomware gang are claiming to have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards. The Australian telecom company supplies […]
Australia Holds World’s First Hackathon to Find Missing Persons. Whether hacking can be ethical or not, it is still a debatable point but law enforcement agencies in Australia have come up with an interesting new way to utilize hackers’ skills for societal welfare. Reportedly, Australian Federal Police took 354 hackers and investigators from all over […]
A few days ago information security specialists reported that computer systems in multiple hospitals in the Gippsland and Victoria regions, Australia, were shut down after suffering a severe ransomware infection. This incident has already begun to have a negative impact on patients treated at the affected facilities. Bianca Brant is the mother of a 12-year-old […]
Without the necessary protection measures, data breaches can occur in any company, regardless of size or branch. Pentesting specialists reported on a cybersecurity incident at the Australian branch of the TGI Friday’s restaurant chain, exposing the information of thousands of its customers. All affected customers, mainly members of MyFriday, the chain rewards program, were notified […]
Personal data belonging to almost 100k clients of Australian banks are exposed due to a cyberattack against PayID, a real-time online payment platform from the Australian bank Westpac. According to web application security specialists, this attack allowed hackers to instantly transfer money between multiple banks using a mobile phone number and an email address. The […]
He hacked his way into the tech giant’s mainframe by creating false credentials. Now that is what we call a very unorthodox approach, an out of the box invocation to realize what you are desperately after. An Australian teenager, an Apple fanboy, longing for a job in Apple evinced an unusual way of forwarding his […]
Canva has contacted the FBI to investigate the data breach. Canva, an online graphic-design tool website operated from Australia has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 139 million registered users has been stolen – The breach took place on Friday, May 24. The stolen data includes usernames, real names, email […]
Australian authorities have reported that, after conducting an information security audit, they’ve found that more than 10 million people have been affected by a recent data breach incident; this is equivalent to almost 50% of the total population of the country (25 million inhabitants). The incident was revealed by the Australian Information Commissioner Office (ICO) […]
Lime believes that hackers somehow managed to swap the audio files on eight of the e-scooters. Lime, a Brisbane-based scooter manufacturer, has been testing its E-Scooters on the streets of Brisbane but sadly, the gadgets are in the news for all the wrong reasons. Reportedly, eight e-scooters manufactured by Lime have been taken off the […]
The Australian authorities maintain that Ward operated a sophisticated drug distribution network on dark web Australian authorities have seized a house on the beach, luxury cars and $100k USD dollars to a young computer science prodigy accused of operating a drug distribution network on dark web, reported network security and ethical hacking experts from the […]
The Australian Parliament confirmed that it is investigating a security incident that had an impact on its computer infrastructure According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the Australian government has begun an investigation related to a “security incident” in the computer network of the federal Parliament. Further […]
An alleged “serial masturbator” who has been causing disturbance among citizens around Brisbane’s inner-city for the past four years has finally been caught by the Queensland Police thanks to Google Maps. Google Maps: Hubby divorces wife after finding her on Street View with another man The 43-year old masturbator was wandering around the streets of […]
A hacker managed to infiltrate Australian emergency warning system Early Warning Network (EWN). The hacker accessed the system and sent countless messages to random citizens informing them that “you’ve been hacked.” However, the warning service’s managing director Kerry Plowright claims that someone did infiltrate and accessed the system but user information hasn’t been exposed. Plowright […]
This warning message reached thousands of Australian citizens Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security have reported that a hacker managed to send a message to thousands of people after an emergency text messaging, email and phone calls service in Australia was compromised. The message, sent from the Early Warning […]
The Australian government is looking for a way to access encrypted communications of certain services, as well as access to non encrypted communications Specialists in information security and digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the Australian House of Representatives has approved the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill” nicknamed “Anti encryption […]
Cheat developers are constantly under the radar of Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games. Both companies have previously taken legal action against cheat developers for protecting their games including the very popular Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). Last month, they launched an operation against Australian developers, who had released a well-known mod-menu cheat for GTA […]
Generally, Apple Inc. is believed to be very strict and reliable in matters pertaining to cyber-security. Its servers are regarded as virtually unhackable. Perhaps, this reputation is a result of the fact that Apple Inc. hasn’t suffered massive data breaches to date. But, the image of Apple is due to change in the forthcoming days. […]
The Australia-based SaaS provider firm PageUp has confirmed discovering ‘unusual activity’ on its IT infrastructure and identified the presence of a malware on its system. On May 23rd, the HR company posted a statement on its official website revealing about a possible malware attack that might have resulted in compromising its customers’ data. Upon discovering the […]
Malicious hackers and scammers have always come up with complex yet innovative techniques to take control of users’ devices and access their personal sensitive data. One such method involves tech support scams targeting unsuspected users in the name of fixing issues in their computers which never exist in the first place. In one such scam, users in Australia were recently […]
A 37-year old IT security researcher and self-confessed computer hacker Nik Cubrilovic from Australia has been accused of illegally accessing the consumer database of Australian car-share firm GoGet. He has been taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station. It is the same person who previously informed GoGet Company on the flaws present in its software system […]
A 31-year-old Vietnamese hacker, Le Duc Hoang Hai, stole highly sensitive data belonging to Perth Airport’s building and security infrastructure after breaching its computer systems. The incident took place in March 2016, when Hai got his hand on login credentials of a third-party contractor allowing him to access the airport systems. What was stolen According to The […]