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Over the past decade, the Chinese government has expanded its massive surveillance network.

The mysterious database that provides clues to China’s foreign surveillance

The discovery of an unsecured Chinese policing dashboard paints a picture of how authorities track foreign journalists and other people of interest.

  • Lisa Visentin

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ACMI has been hit with a data breach just days after MIFF’s third-party ticketing platform was compromised.

ACMI hit with data breach days after MIFF’s ticketing platform hacked

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is the second Melbourne arts institution to be involved in a data breach in less than a week.

  • Nell Geraets
Anthropic has plans to broaden bank access to its Mythos cybersecurity tool.

Australia gets access to AI model ‘too dangerous to release’

Mythos is so good at finding software flaws that its maker won’t release it. Now Australia is on the access list.

  • David Swan
MIFF’s third-party ticketing platform Ferve Tickets was hacked, exposing the personal information of thousands of MIFF customers.

Film festival customer data exposed in hack of third-party ticketing platform

Melbourne International Film Festival organisers are investigating the hack, which has affected about 10 per cent of the festival’s total customer database.

  • Roy Ward and Nell Geraets
Independent MP Zali Steggall’s WhatsApp account was hacked in March.

Zali Steggall’s WhatsApp hacked in suspected Russian attack

The account was hacked in March as part of a phishing scheme believed to have been orchestrated by Russia and leading to WhatsApp being blocked on parliamentary laptops.

  • Matthew Knott
The parent company of Canvas, the online learning platform used by hundreds of thousands of Australian students and teachers, has struck a deal with the cybercriminal gang behind a global breach to delete the personal data of an estimated 275 million users.

Ransom ‘paid’ to hackers who crippled online learning in Australia

More than 120 Australian schools, universities and TAFEs were caught in the world’s largest education breach. Now their data is supposedly deleted.

  • David Swan
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Victorian school students and universities caught up in global cyber hack

A popular learning management system has been infiltrated by hackers who are holding personal information to ransom.

  • Noel Towell and Bridie Smith
Banks have long been targeted by cybercriminals, and AI is raising that risk.

The AI craze is a double-edged sword for our banking giants

Bankers’ enthusiasm for AI has lately been drowned out by the warnings about the growing risk of turbocharged cyberattacks.

  • Clancy Yeates
Anthropic has plans to broaden bank access to its Mythos cybersecurity tool.

AI tool ‘too dangerous to release’ could wreak havoc on businesses

It found a 27-year-old bug in software used in routers worldwide. Experts fear Anthropic’s Mythos model could trigger the next wave of major breaches.

  • David Swan
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is aware of the dangers of his company’s AI.

No crying wolf: Regulate the AI juggernaut before it’s too late

No one denies the potential of AI to transform economies and societies, but those who know the technology best are cognisant of its dangers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz