Is there a magic number of friends you need to be happy? Science says yesA recent study highlights a critical link between mental well-being and the number of reliable friends one has. Individuals reporting good ...
29 Jul, 2025, 11.23 PM IST
Qantas cyberattack becomes Australia's most significant data breach in recent years, with over six million customers exposedQantas Airways faced a cyberattack. This incident compromised personal data of six million customers. Information like names and contact de...
02 Jul, 2025, 07.07 AM IST
Australian spies blame Russian for major cyberattackAustralia has identified the Russian mastermind behind a crippling cyber attack, unmasking the 33-year-old hacker for the first time on Tue...
23 Jan, 2024, 09.07 AM IST
Australia beefs up cyber defences after major breachesThe federal government said it will also subject telecommunications firms to tougher cyber reporting rules which apply to critical infrastr...
22 Nov, 2023, 11.17 AM IST
Tech outage affected some funds in cyber incident: Australian investment fund PerpetualIn Perpetual's case, one of its third-party unit registry systems was compromised, impacting clients' access to its main investor login por...
21 Jun, 2023, 04.59 PM IST
Australia Inc roiled by raft of cyber attacks since late 2022Australian firms have suffered many cyber attacks since last September, putting the spotlight on the country's understaffed cybersecurity i...
20 Jun, 2023, 11.39 AM IST
Australia may inadvertently fuel cyber crime, says data theft victim organisationIDCare said by raising the threat of massive fines, Australia would force companies to choose whether to pay A$1 million, the typical cost ...
05 Apr, 2023, 04.45 PM IST
Australia's Medibank gets second class-action lawsuit over 2022 data breachThe company breached its disclosure obligations by not revealing information regarding the alleged deficiencies in its cyber security syste...
29 Mar, 2023, 06.05 PM IST
Payments firm Latitude Group fears 328,000 IDs stolen in cyber attackAbout 103,000 identification documents, more than 97% of which are copies of drivers' licences, were stolen from the first service provider...
16 Mar, 2023, 09.14 AM IST
Australia plans to reform cyber security rules, set up agencyCurrent cyber security rules, government policies and regulations "are simply not at the level that we need them to be," Prime Minister Ant...
27 Feb, 2023, 09.51 AM IST
Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots: dangerous side of advanced AIIn the wrong hands, generative AI could do untold damage. There's a lot we stand to lose, should laws and regulation fail to keep up.
06 Feb, 2023, 10.46 AM IST
Very much in sync with India’s decision on 5G equipment: Australia’s cyber affairs ambassadorIn November, India and Australia convened their fifth bilateral Cyber Policy Dialogue. From the Australian side, Tobias Feakin, ambassador ...
07 Dec, 2022, 03.47 PM IST
Hackers leak Australian health records on dark webThe data included names, birth dates, passport numbers and information on medical claims for hundreds of customers who were separated into ...
09 Nov, 2022, 01.12 PM IST
Ransomware hackers hit Australian defence communications platformThe ForceNet service, one of the external providers the defence department contracts to run its websites, has come under attack but so far ...
31 Oct, 2022, 10.57 AM IST
Australian health insurer Medibank says data of all customers hackedMedibank said its priority was to discover the specific data stolen in relation to each customer and to share that information with those c...
26 Oct, 2022, 08.40 AM IST
Major data breach at Australia's top health insurer MedibankThe company did not say how many of its 4 million customers were likely to have been affected but warned the number was likely to rise. The...
20 Oct, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
Australian PM Scott Morrison looks set to form majority govt: reportA party needs 76 seats for a simple majority in the 151-member House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament.
20 May, 2019, 12.56 PM IST