National Archives identifies four “areas of interest” for AI
The National Archives of Australia is getting ready to test AI across a wide range of operations in maintaining its growing library of historical documents…
Month: October 2025
Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space
How much private and sensitive data can you get by pointing $600 worth of satellite equipment at the sky? Quite a bit, it turns out.…
Exchange 2016 and 2019 have reached end of support
Microsoft has reminded that Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 reached the end of support and advised IT administrators to upgrade servers to Exchange Server SE…
New Cyberattack Leverages NPM Ecosystem to Infect Developers While Installing Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign that weaponizes the NPM ecosystem through an unprecedented attack vector. Unlike traditional malicious package installations, this operation…
Patch Tuesday October 2025: Three Zero-days Under Attack
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday October 2025 included fixes for 175 vulnerabilities, including three exploited zero-days and 13 additional high-risk vulnerabilities. The three zero-days under attack were…
National photo licence recognition system set to go live in 2025
The Australian government is set to launch its long-awaited National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution by the end of the year, nearly a decade after…
New Android Pixnapping attack steals MFA codes pixel-by-pixel
A new side-channel attack called Pixnapping enables a malicious Android app with no permissions to extract sensitive data by stealing pixels displayed by applications or…
PolarEdge With Custom TLS Server Uses Custom Binary Protocol for C2 Communication
A sophisticated backdoor malware targeting Internet of Things devices has surfaced, employing advanced communication techniques to maintain persistent access to compromised systems. The PolarEdge backdoor,…
ACCAN calls for real-time, single source of truth on outages
Telecommunication consumer advocacy body, ACCAN, has called for the establishment of a unified, public register of communications service outages. ACCAN suggested the move would restore…
Researchers warn of widespread RDP attacks by 100K-node botnet
Researchers warn of widespread RDP attacks by 100K-node botnet Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2025 A botnet of 100K+ IPs from multiple countries is attacking U.S.…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 175 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days
Microsoft addressed 175 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including two actively exploited zero-days, the company said in its latest security update. It’s…
Final Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update rolls out as support ends
In what marks the end of an era, Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5066791 cumulative update, the final cumulative update for the operating system…