cyber attack
Over 3,000,000 people downloaded a new Android malware family from the Play Store that discreetly subscribes users to premium services.
A cyberattack at a university in Victoria stole some of the most recent test scores and roughly 47,000 students' contact information, both present and former.
A few years ago, I provided an IT manager with the very first Intrusion Prevention System report they had ever encountered. This IT manager didn’t think too much of it at the time, but come 9:00 PM on Friday, he finally sat down and digested it. Shortly after we received dozens of panicked phone calls requesting urgent assistance with the tens of thousands...
According to a report by the OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner), there were 518 notifiable data breach incidents in the first half of 2020. The report cites malicious criminal activities and human error as the leading causes of data breaches. Looking at those figures, not much seems to have changed over the last two years...