October 20, 2022
London-based cybersecurity company OutThink has raised $10 million in early-stage investments backed by venture capital firm AlbionVC, it said on Tuesday, as it looks to help organizations identify human behavior that can lead to data breaches. The company, which says …
October 3, 2022
Singapore Telecommunications said on Monday it was assessing the potential cost of a massive cyber-security breach at its Optus arm, Australia’s second-largest telco, 12 days ago. In its second comment on the breach of private data from 10 million accounts, …
September 30, 2022
Australian authorities said on Friday they have commenced an operation to protect the personal information of 10,000 people whose data may have been shared online after a cyber attack on Optus, the country’s second-largest telco. The efforts come three days …
September 29, 2022
Australian telecoms giant Optus must pay the cost of replacing the passports and drivers licenses of millions of customers whose personal information was stolen in one of the country’s biggest data breaches, the government said on Thursday. The theft of …
September 28, 2022
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police were investigating a purported hacker’s release of the stolen personal data of 10,000 customers of the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier and demand for a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the company’s chief executive said …
September 26, 2022
Australia plans to toughen privacy rules to force companies to notify banks faster when they experience cyber attacks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, after hackers targeted the country’s second-largest telecoms firm. Optus, owned by Singapore Telecoms Ltd., said …
August 16, 2022
Officials in a Boston suburb are investigating a former city employee they say shut down the police website during a pay dispute. Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said the former employee, who was the police department information technology director, took down …
August 15, 2022
NEW DELHI (AP) – Last month, a cyber-security startup told a major Indian online insurance brokerage it had found critical vulnerabilities in the company’s internet-facing network that could expose sensitive personal and financial data from at least 11 million customers …
July 7, 2022
Cybersecurity outfit Group-IB will split its Russian and international business into two separate companies in a bid to maintain a presence in both the Russian and overseas markets, the company said on Wednesday. (Reuters issued a statement with this article: …
July 6, 2022
FRANKFURT – Germany’s road traffic agency said it was recalling Tesla models Y and 3 because of a fault in the automatic emergency call system that affects 59,000 vehicles globally. The KBA watchdog said on its website dated June 29 …