The outage caused chaos for thousands of Australian businesses and their accounting teams.
The CrowdStrike episode is chilling because it highlights how a single,flawed update from a trusted source can cause large parts of the global system to fail.
Personal and health data from the hack is up for sale on the dark web.
Hackers attempted to commit credit card fraud against UN Women Australia,but its chief executive says the group managed to beat the attackers with the help of its technology partners.
The $21.5 trillion in fines that the health insurer faces is an uncomfortable reminder to corporate Australia that it’s not just the cyber criminals that are now on the hook.
Commissioner Carly Kind is concerned about the speed at which the fast-evolving technology is being used.
The burger chain admits that 198 employees received an email attachment containing the personal data of possibly thousands of staff.
The big internet companies are not even doing “the bare minimum” to protect our societies from the mass-scale paedophilia and terrorist incitement flourishing on their sites.
“No one is more disappointed than me,” Tangerine’s CEO said after more than 200,000 customers are caught up in a data breach.
More businesses are set to join The Iconic,Dan Murphy’s and Event Cinemas in falling victim to hackers,amid calls for passwords to be abolished entirely.
The hackers broke into the corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team,as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.