Metcash-owned hardware chain Total Tools says it is working with cyber specialists following a major data leak believed to have impacted nearly 40,000 customers.
Cheyanne Enciso
Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly vital to Australia’s future, yet it remains an overlooked career choice for many students.
Glenn Murray
Perth is getting a whole lot spookier after Defence Minister Richard Marles opened the first Australian Signals Directorate office outside of Canberra during the cabinet’s visit to WA.
Katina Curtis
A colossal internet failure disrupted flights, trains, medical services and media outlets across the world on Friday.
Bethany Hiatt
A global IT outage is affecting businesses and media outlets across Australia forcing some to shut their doors for the day.
Artemisia Blythe
Cruel scammers are using popular ‘find-a-tradie’ sites to steal thousands of dollars in building deposits from West Australians by impersonating legitimate businesses.
Caleb Runciman
Data stolen from one of Perth’s most celebrated medical centres has been published on the dark web after the institute did not pay a $750,000 ransom, hackers claim.
A new phishing scam targeting seniors and identified by a Your Money reader has triggered a renewed warning from WA Police after enquiries by The West Australian prompted a shut down order.
Nick Bruining
Iluka Resources was targeted in an attempted hack, understood to be from China, not long after the miner’s boss accused China of rigging the rare earths market.
Adrian Rauso
The Australian Army’s former Information Warfare chief believes ransomware drills, a culture of accountability and good old-fashioned phone calls would go a long way in shielding businesses from cyber crime.
Simone Grogan
Medibank will defend legal action brought by the Australian Information Commissioner alleging the insurer “seriously interfered” with the privacy of 9.7 million people by not protecting their data.
Local governments need to better protect themselves against cyber security threats, the Auditor General says.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
A hacking group claims to have stolen the personal details and payment information of 560 million Ticketmaster users.
Max Corstorphan
Australian banks claiming success with belated efforts to stop internet scammers swindling customers.
Neale Prior
Qantas is hosing down scam fears after thousands of users of its mobile phone app were shown sensitive information about its frequent flyer program members.
Neale Prior and David Johns
Qantas probing potentially massive data breach involving the private details of its customers being leaked to strangers.
The Premier’s department is developing a ‘threat intelligence platform’ to shield agencies from the rising risk of cyber attacks — both foreign and homegrown.
Jake Dietsch
Confidence in the WA Government among local company directors has slipped to its lowest level since pre-pandemic, with more disagreeing it understands business than agreeing for the first time in years.
Adrian Lowe
Australia’s corporate watchdog is pushing ahead with a higher-risk legal actions and internet-savvy attacks on scammers as part of a battle to protect consumers, small business and investors.
A Perth cyber security business partly owned by Edith Cowan University and cofounded by John Poynton has collapsed into administration.
Matt Mckenzie
A form of online harassment that sees a person’s private information shared online publicly is the latest cybercrime target of the Alabense Government in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Gabrielle Waite
WA’s biggest car dealer says it is looking into the claim that personal data stolen in December has been aired on the dark web.
Sean Smith
Australia has imposed cyber sanctions against a Russian man in response to the high-profile Medibank hack in 2022.
Kimberley Caines
Cybersecurity overtakes talent war as the number one issue facing Australian businesses going into 2024, following a spate of high-profile attacks and outages.