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CubePilot Drone Maker Hijacked at the DNS Level, Passwords and Firmware in Doubt
Attackers seized control of cubepilot.org on July 24, issued valid HTTPS certificates for every subdomain, and intercepted traffic to the login portal and forum before the Australian firm clawed the domain back.
The Man Who Meets You at Your Worst: Inside Melbourne Airport's Only Chaplain
Martyn Scrimshaw has spent nine years walking the terminals of Melbourne Airport, helping the homeless, the scammed, the grieving, and the fleeing. Now a film starring Hugo Weaving is bringing his work to a wider audience.
Gold Coast teacher charged after using AI to generate explicit images of students and staff
A 73-year-old former teacher at a Queensland private school faces four criminal charges after police found AI-generated child exploitation material on his school-issued laptop, following a nine-month investigation.
Australian Regulator Fines TAB $2.7 Million for Spam and Telemarketing Breaches
Tabcorp's gambling brand ignored Do Not Call registrations and unsubscribe requests at scale. It has now paid more than $2.7 million in penalties, and the regulator says the failures point to deep problems inside the company's compliance systems.
Origin Energy confirms data breach; hacker claims 2 million customer records held for extortion
Australia's largest energy retailer says names, addresses, birth dates and partial bank details were exposed. An unidentified hacker calling themselves 'John Doe' has threatened to leak the data within two weeks.
Brisbane Medical Clinic Took Three Months to Tell Patients Their Emails Were Read by Hackers
GO2 Health notified the regulator in May but did not warn affected patients until July, reviving the debate about whether Australia's 30-day disclosure rules protect the right people.
Australia Plans Strict Rules on AI in Government Decision-Making
Canberra is drawing up binding requirements for how federal agencies use automated decision tools, with fairness, accuracy and transparency at the centre of the framework.
Australian Health Clinics Waited 22 Days to Warn Patients After Hackers Stole Medical Records
Partnered Health, which operates more than 60 clinics across Australia, sat on a serious data theft for three weeks before telling anyone. A cybersecurity academic says that gap is long enough to cause real harm.
Hackers Hit 21 Australian Health Clinics, Putting Medicare Numbers and Test Results at Risk
Partnered Health confirmed a data breach on 23 June that reached patient files across Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Experts warn the stolen records could surface for sale on hidden online marketplaces.
Australian Actress Falls Victim to $10,500 Insurance Scam
Christine Whelan Browne, a well-known Australian theatre actress, warns others about an insurance scam after losing her car.
Australia Logged 2,000 Sextortion Complaints in Six Months. Big Tech Still Isn't Scanning for the Scripts.
Australia's online safety watchdog says the same blackmail messages keep appearing across platforms, and most major tech companies still aren't using the detection tools that already exist.
Tech Giants Failing to Stop Online Sexual Extortion of Young Men, Australian Regulator Warns
Australia's online safety watchdog reviewed Apple, Meta, Google and others and found serious gaps in how they handle child exploitation and sextortion complaints, even as reports keep climbing.
Scammers Are Calling Telstra Customers and Pretending to Help After Last Week's Outage
Criminals are cold-calling Australians and posing as Telstra staff in the days after a national network failure. Here's what happened, what data could be at risk, and what to do if your phone rings.
Nine in Ten Top Adult Sites Now Check Ages in Australia, But VPN Workarounds Are Next on the Regulator's List
Australia's online safety watchdog says most major adult platforms have put age gates in place since March. Now it wants to know whether a simple privacy tool is letting users walk straight around them.
Banning Kids From Social Media Sounds Simple. Actually Doing It Is Not.
Countries across four continents are passing age limits for social media. The hard part, it turns out, is proving how old anyone actually is.