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30 November 2022
PT Bank Commonwealth (PTCB), the Indonesian subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has announced it has suffered a major cyber security attack. The criminals who claim to be behind the attack said they have obtained data from 162 million users. The cyber attack occurred when unauthorised parties accessed a web-based software application used […]
Attacks against governments jumped 95% in last half of 2022 The number of attacks targeting the government sector increased by 95 per cent in the second half of 2022, a new report has found. The report by AI-based cyber security vendor CloudSek found India, the US, Indonesia, and China accounted for 40 per cent of […]
Hackers abuse legitimate remote monitoring and management tools in attacks Researchers and government agencies warn that threat actors are increasing their use of legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to enable financial scams. Researchers from Cisco Talos reported this week that one particular commercial RMM tool called Syncro was observed in a third of the incident […]
Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 licences in a few days Bad news for anyone wanting to build a PC with Windows 10, with Microsoft announcing it will stop directly selling Windows 10 licences by the end of the month. Microsoft will halt digital downloads of Windows 10 on the 31st of January 2023, according […]
Australia’s biggest telecommunications providers are experiencing falls in market share as challenger RSPs close the gap. In the quarter that ended in September, big players in the National Broadband Network (NBN) market saw their shares decrease by over 123,000 residential services. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Telstra, TPG, Optus and Vocus […]
15000 iiNet and Westnet business customers exposed in TPG hack TPG Telecom’s external cyber security adviser Mandiant has uncovered evidence of unauthorised access to a Hosted Exchange service that holds about 15,000 iiNet and Westnet email accounts for business customers. According to a statement to shareholders on the Australian Securities Exchange, TPG said primary analysis […]