The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Drones
The new joint operation uses laser-based technology capable of detecting, tracking, and disabling commercial drones linked to human and drug...
AndyC
Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
Attackers Exploit Critical Cisco FMC Flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware
Attackers Exploit Critical Cisco FMC Flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026 Three threat groups are exploiting...
UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw
UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026 A critical SonicWall flaw was...
Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk
Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk In August, Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON, remembering the wily hacker he...
OpenAI pauses $200 Pro tier as Astra demand strains capacity
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> The company has halted new sign-ups and upgrades to the highest-usage plan to...
Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control...
China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor
A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing...
PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously...
Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Vulnerability / Malware Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks...
China is poised to lead in research on quantum technologies. Democracies must act
Australia and its democratic partners need to act promptly to avoid conceding the lead in quantum technologies to China. ASPI’s...
GuardBreaker: Derailing AI-assisted malware analysis with a code comment
Business Security LLM-based code scanners won’t help attackers build a nuclear weapon, but that refusal could work in their favor...
In Pictures: Security in the age of shadow AI VITG Melbourne roundtable
This iTnews executive roundtable lunch sponsored by VITG explored cyber security in the age of shadow AI. Delegates discussed how...
In Pictures: Governing hybrid cloud Tecala & Microsoft roundtable
This iTnews executive roundtable lunch sponsored by Tecala & Microsoft explored how organisations can see and govern their entire hybrid...
Mathspace breach exposed data of more than 1 million students, parents and teachers
Mathspace, an online maths learning platform used in schools across Australia and New Zealand, said attackers breached its systems by...
Open models are becoming a tool of Chinese statecraft
The argument in Washington over the past few months over the past few months has been about whether to ban...