Australia
China launches Cyber Attacks on Australian firms
China is reported to have launched repeated cyber attacks on firms operating in Australia which is a clear-cut breach of the bilateral agreement made by the two countries to not steal commercial secrets of each other. This news was disclosed to the world after the discovery of the facts in an investigation launched by Fairfax […]
Australian Defense Shipbuilder Austal hit by Cyber Attack
Austal, an Australia based global shipbuilding company has made it official that its Australian database management system was reigning under cyber attack launched by an unknown offender. The Western Australian Defense Builder has even clarified that the email addresses and mobile phone numbers of some staff members and some of their valuable customers were accessed […]
Britain and Australia blame Russian GRU for Cyber Attacks
Perhaps its time countries like Britain, the US and Australia should stop blaming their cyber adversaries and instead start acting on how to make their country’s cyber infrastructure immune to cyber attacks. That’s because the populace of the respective countries is no more interested in who is launching the attacks. But are more interested in […]
News about Wannacry hitting Australian Computers and Cyber Attack on Air Canada
Malwarebytes latest investigation has discovered that the Wannacry Ransomware which disrupted more than 250,000 computers worldwide last year has again hit thousands of systems in Australia and millions across the world in 2018. According to the Cybersecurity firm, more than 3,388 Wannacry cases have been detected till date since Jan this year and the number […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
1.) Edinburgh University online servers witnessed a disruption yesterday and sources report that the websites under the University’s online domain were crippled by a cyber attack during the freshers week. Jisc, the ISP of the said educational institution confirmed that there was indeed an attack on the organization’s domain. But failed to disclose any details […]
Iran hackers Cyber Attack Australian Universities
Hackers from Iran are reportedly found targeting Australian Universities in order to rob valuable digital information from research work- a serious threat to national security. According to a news post from ABC News, Australia hackers have so far targeted thousands of staff and student accounts at prominent universities to siphon data from academic journals, dissertations, […]
Huawei and ZTE banned from rolling out 5G Network in Australia
Australia has decided to ban Chinese networking giants ZTE and Huawei from rolling out the 5G network in the country due to the fact that the companies behold security risks to foreign governments. Consequently, with the pronouncement of the latest ban sentence, Australia happens to be the third country to block the telecom equipment giants […]
Tech companies against ‘Coalition Bill’ which expose customers to Government Spies
A private body named ‘The Digital Industry Group’ representing tech companies Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Twitter has expressed its concern over a ‘Coalition bill’ which forces the companies to assist law enforcement agencies like ASIO(Australian Security Intelligence Organization) in decrypting private communications. In simple terms, the tech companies are against a government-drafted bill brought into […]
FBI to act tough on Australian teenager who broke into Apple Mainframe Servers
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has finally decided to take stringent action against a teenager who has managed to hack into the mainframe network of Apple Inc, several times in the past year and succeeded in downloading over 90GB of data along with the data access to several customer accounts. Sources reporting to […]
Australia opens a new Cyber Security Center in Canberra
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull opened the new headquarters of the Australian Cyber Security Center in Canberra. The office is said to act as a central hub to Australians when it comes to Cybersecurity related info, advice and assistance. The objective of the center will be to keep Australians safe from all sorts of Cyber […]
