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VeroGuard rescue after $55m collapse raises questions for buyers
VeroGuard's rescue from liquidation after a $55 million collapse keeps the cyber supplier alive but leaves open questions over ownership, support and public backing.
Anthropic Mythos flaws put patch speed at the centre
Anthropic Mythos found more than 10,000 serious flaws in a month, putting patch cycles, triage and change control at the centre of software security.
OpenAI Daybreak: CBA, Westpac test cyber defences
OpenAI Daybreak is being tested by Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, bringing agentic cyber defence tools into Australian banking workflows.
EY cyber report retracted after AI citation errors
EY pulled a cybersecurity report after GPTZero found more than 70 per cent of its 27 citations were AI-generated, invented or misattributed.
Budget boosts AI, but cyber gaps remain, industry warns
The 2026-27 federal budget commits billions to AI and digital infrastructure, but cybersecurity spending tilts toward large institutions while SMEs remain exposed.
CTV ad fraud surges 140 per cent as AI-powered schemes spread globally
Connected TV fraud schemes jumped 140 per cent in the March quarter, with AI-powered bot attacks and data centre traffic costing advertisers US$1.8 million per billion unprotected impressions, according to new research from DoubleVerify.
Australia's $7.5B cybersecurity market: scale vs local split
Enterprises will spend AU$7.5B on cybersecurity in 2026. Global platforms dominate yet consolidation splits the market between scale and local sovereign accountability.
Instructure reaches deal with ShinyHunters as Canvas breach hits Australian universities
The company behind the Canvas learning platform says stolen data has been returned and destroyed, but declines to say whether any payment was made.
BitLocker comes free with every Windows PC. Here is how to set it up.
Windows 11 can encrypt every byte on your hard drive using BitLocker or Device Encryption, and on new PCs it is often turned on before you reach the desktop. The Australian Signals Directorate recommends full-disk encryption for any device handling customer data, and the software is already built into Windows at no extra cost.
Stop guessing if your data leaked. Here's how to check in 60 seconds.
Seventeen billion compromised accounts sit inside Have I Been Pwned, the free Australian-built breach checker that tells you in under a minute whether your email address was exposed. Here is how it works, what else to use, and what to do after the bad news lands.
ACSC warns of ClickFix attacks delivering Vidar Stealer via WordPress
The Australian Cyber Security Center has warned of an active malware campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts on compromised WordPress sites to drop the Vidar information-stealing malware on Australian organisations.
ASIC demands urgent cyber uplift as frontier AI Mythos accelerates threats
ASIC told every licensee on Friday to urgently strengthen cyber resilience, citing risks from frontier AI such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos. Commissioner Simone Constant said the clock is at 'a minute to midnight'.
Australia names Cyber Incident Review Board to formalise post-breach lessons
The federal government has named Telstra's Narelle Devine to chair a new Cyber Incident Review Board, formalising no-fault post-mortems of major attacks under the Cyber Security Act 2024. Six other members were appointed from NBN Co, Boeing, Allens, Toll, SA Power Networks and UNSW.
More than half of Australian SMEs lack a dedicated security team, Zoho report finds
More than half of Australian SMEs lack a dedicated security team, and one in three confirmed a cyberattack in the past year, a Zoho-commissioned survey of 3,322 IT and security professionals has found.
SafePay lists Australian energy management firm Energy Action on leak site
Ransomware crew SafePay has added Australian consultancy Energy Action to its dark web leak site, claiming a breach of the firm that says it manages more than 10 per cent of Australia's commercial energy spend.
ShinyHunters breach of Canvas LMS hits Australian schools and universities
Australian universities, state education departments and private schools are among the customers caught up in a global breach of Instructure's Canvas platform. ShinyHunters claims to have taken 3.65 terabytes of data covering 275 million users.
