Convicted Hacker Turned Retro Gaming Manufacturer, Online Retailer
Cybercrime Magazine Podcast Host Scott Schober recently interviewed Dustin Holden, a reformed hacker who pled guilty to computer fraud and was convicted in 2017. His crimes…
Month: August 2026
A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months
Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call…
“Zoomsday” flaws could let one Zoom participant attack another
Researchers have found three vulnerabilities in the popular Zoom meeting platform that could let one meeting participant attack another through malicious collaboration data. The vulnerabilities,…
737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One
Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Browser Security / Privacy A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users…
NBN Co passes fibre tipping point as speed uplift carries FY26 growth
NBN Co has reported revenue of A$5.92bn for the year to 30 June 2026, up 3% as more of its customers now connect over fibre…
SA gov to hold royal commission into AI
The South Australian government will set up a royal commission into AI to shape its policy response to the technology. Premier Peter Malinauskas said that…
SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Shortly After PoC Release
A SharePoint vulnerability patched last month is now being exploited in the wild, with the attacks starting shortly after the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC)…
ShieldBreak: New Windows Zero-Day Bypasses Microsoft’s RoguePlanet Patch
ShieldBreak: New Windows Zero-Day Bypasses Microsoft’s RoguePlanet Patch Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2026 Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC for ShieldBreak, a Microsoft Defender zero-day that…
Cisco says software vulnerability could let hackers crash firewalls
Threat actors have already begun exploiting the flaw, according to the U.S. government. Source link
Hong Kong student arrested over HK$3m scam deceived by same swindlers
Hong Kong police have arrested a 19-year-old university student accused of swindling more than HK$3 million from a man after apparently being hoodwinked by scammers…
Equinix launches Managed Solutions in Australia
Equinix has launched Equinix Managed Solutions (EMS) in Australia, offering managed private cloud and infrastructure services aimed at organisations dealing with longer hardware delivery times,…
Fake CCleaner downloads turn Chrome into a credential-stealing surveillance tool
When executed, “cscript.exe” runs a series of scripts carrying out basic system reconnaissance like collecting the machine GUID, hostname, and supported languages. It then replaces…