The chilling letter a creepy stalker sent to the cop who arrested him for making a hoax bomb threat has been revealed in court.
NCA NewsWire
More than 300,000 attempts to use Aussies’ compromised data to commit fraudulent transactions have been blocked since the 2022 Optus hack.
Eleanor Campbell
The man is accused of sending 17 million scam texts in just one week and is now facing a “highly complex” court case.
Lauren Ferri
Hackers are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from businesses in email attacks, a cybersecurity report shows, but ransomware is becoming less common.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
An online banking customer has urged others to update their passwords after they couldn’t access their account.
Aisling Brennan
Global tech titan Elon Musk is pursuing legal action over a post on his social media platform that was allegedly harmful to a transgender activist.
Duncan Evans
Tech giant Microsoft has been blamed in a report into state-backed Chinese cyber operators breaking into email accounts of senior US officials.
Staff Writers
A former elite girls school IT worker has had a ‘traumatic’ month since being jailed for possessing child abuse material of girls as young as 10, a court has heard.
Adelaide Lang and Lauren Ferri
The woman was trying to cancel her home insurance and sell her home so she could send money to a new boyfriend.
Madeleine Achenza
The City of Canning could spend more than $1 million upgrading and doubling its network of security cameras throughout the district.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
Australians have been hit with a record number of fraudulent credit card purchases and withdrawals, new data has revealed.
Jack Quail
The TikTok app, and its 8.5 million Australian users, face an uncertain outlook with growing concerns by governments over its safety.
A leading advocacy group has called for action on the “horrifying” sentence given to a pedophile who tried to groom a mum and her two underage kids.
Blake Antrobus
One group of Australians has become the target of social media scammers fleecing tens of millions of dollars every year.
Nathan Schmidt
One of Optus’ senior figures has dropped a bombshell four months after a widespread outage at the telco giant disrupted the lives of millions and shattered the company’s reputation.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the guessing game over the identity of the former politician recruited by foreign spies should stop.
The boss of Australia’s spy agency has refused to unmask the identity of an ex-politician accused of selling out the nation.
Ellen Ransley and Eleanor Campbell
Hackers have allegedly targeted the X account of late Friends star Matthew Perry with the intention of committing fraud.
A former IT worker at an elite Sydney girls’ school who kept child abuse material on his work computer has made a bizarre complaint to the court.
A lieutenant general will become Australia's second national cyber security coordinator after a long career in defence and intelligence.
Kat Wong
The Prime Minister has weighed in after hundreds of Jewish Australians were doxxed, signalling new laws will be enacted.
Ellen Ransley and Duncan Evans
Spy agencies have sounded the alarm after Chinese hackers lived in some US critical industries for up to five years unnoticed.
Courtney Gould
A United Nations panel is investigating 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks on cryptocurrency-related companies between 2017 and 2023.
Michelle Nichols
One of Australia’s biggest banks has issued an urgent warning to stay vigilant ahead of a day that attracts heartbreaking scams.
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