Europe’s phone networks are drowning in fake calls
Caller ID spoofing has become one of Europe’s most persistent enablers of cyber fraud. A new position paper from Europol warns that manipulated phone identities…
Author: Cybernoz
Westpac finishes replanning its Unite tech transformation
Westpac has replanned its Unite technology simplification program, bringing forward some activity and investment while pushing the expected completion date into FY29. Unite is the…
Fair Work Ombudsman quietly shuts critical technologies board
The Fair Work ombudsman has quietly dismantled its Critical Technology Projects Board after fewer than four years in operation. The Office of the Fair Work…
CEO of Singapore-owned Optus refuses to resign after Australian outage linked to 4 deaths
The CEO of Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus apologised to Australia’s parliament for an emergency number outage that was linked to four deaths but declined to stand…
8 Top Application Security Tools (2026 Edition) – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
The software revolution has redefined what’s possible in global business. Complex applications underpin e-commerce, healthcare, finance, transportation, and nearly every sector that defines modern civilization.…
Optus fast-tracks network operations insourcing from Nokia
Optus has revealed that it will accelerate plans bring network functions currently outsourced to Nokia back in-house in response to September’s triple zero outage on…
OpenAI is going Meta route, as it considers memory-based ads on ChatGPT
OpenAI is planning to introduce ads on ChatGPT, as it continues to struggle with revenue from paid users. OpenAI, valued at about $500 billion, plans…
Penn hacker claims to have stolen 1.2 million donor records in data breach
A hacker has taken responsibility for last week’s University of Pennsylvania “We got hacked” email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that…
Open VSX rotates access tokens used in supply-chain malware attack
The Open VSX registry rotated access tokens after they were accidentally leaked by developers in public repositories and allowed threat actors to publish malicious extensions…
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody – Krebs on Security
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested…
NSW auditor: ‘extra agency-led AI policies needed’
Artificial intelligence is proliferating in NSW government with 357 different tools found to be in use across 21 of 26 of the state’s largest departments and…
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