There’s a disturbing trend of sophisticated scams swindling huge sums of money from honest Aussies, with the latest steal involving genuine-seeming invoices.
Duncan Evans
The new Immigration and Home Affairs Minister has only been in the job for five minutes but is already heading overseas to visit a key ally.
A mobile phone giant has revealed its latest move on cyber security as experts raise alarm bells over a rise in malware attacks.
Nathan Schmidt
The boss of the company now synonymous with the ‘blue screen of death’ fiasco has ‘personally’ apologised for the worldwide outage.
Aisling Brennan
The eSafety Commissioner has officially put the tech giants on notice: Do more to protect Aussie kids or cop massive fines.
The company responsible for the ‘blue screen of death’ that left millions of people stranded says it is ‘absolutely’ prepared for compensation claims.
Computer systems at businesses across the Australian economy could be dealing with the fallout from the Microsoft outage for weeks to come.
Blair Jackson
After a faulty update plunged computers and tech systems all over the world into chaos, a workaround to the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” has been revealed.
Blake Antrobus
A warning has been issued to Australians as scammers attempt to take advantage of the global IT outage.
Clareese Packer
Many people are still struggling after a global IT outage left airlines, banks and businesses scrambling.
Hysterical Aussie shoppers have warned each other to “stock up on toilet paper" as a global tech outage causes chaos at supermarkets across the country.
Emma Kirk
Police are warning criminals they will be caught after six arrests and the seizure of many illegal SIM boxes used to send scam messages to defraud Australians.
Staff Writers
Australians have been urged to become more cyber aware after a prescription company was hit by one of the largest data breach attacks in the nation's history.
Kat Wong
Sparked by a string of deepfake porn and sexually explicit images created at Australian high schools, experts say unfiltered AI tools have collided with misogyny.
Cyber attackers in Indonesia had demanded millions of dollars in ransom to unlock data from several government agencies, before later apologising.
Ananda Teresia
A man has lost more than $150,000 during a property settlement scam after emails with his settlement agent were intercepted by scammers.
Australians have been warned to stay vigilant as one particular scam that preys on vulnerable people is on the rise.
The malicious group, acting on behalf of the Chinese government, has hacked into government sectors and private companies.
Jessica Wang
Authorities have warned taxpayers to be aware of tax scams targeting Aussies as they submit their tax returns.
Telstra cybersecurity experts have warned scammers are more likely to target Aussies on particular days. Here’s what you need to watch out for.
Google Chrome users are the latest group of people to be targeted in a new scam.
A group of students have been expelled from a Catholic high school after it was discovered they had been hacking an IT system to access sensitive information.
Hackers were able to obtain personal details for millions of current and former Optus customers in a ‘trial and error’ attack exploiting a coding error, Australia’s telecommunication watchdog alleges.
Liam Beatty
Unsuspecting Aussies are being duped by opportunistic scammers pretending to be nbn workers.