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The terms ‘white hat hacker’ and ‘black hat hacker’ will doubtless be familiar to you. But events over the past few months suggest it is not as clear-cut as these neat little boxes. Whether good or bad, all hackers fundamentally use the same skillset and capability to manipulate technology. The only difference is that one

It seems hardly a week goes by when the media does not report yet another cyberattack, sometimes even on their own industry. HBO announced at the start of August 2017 that they had been a target of a cyberattack through an anonymous email. But what did the hackers want? The reporting predominantly focused on the

The Notifiable Data Breaches Bill was passed through the Australian Senate in February, making it a legal requirement of eligible organisations to disclose any security breaches which have compromised personal data. Cyber security, experts say, needs to become a top priority for businesses and this new law will hopefully trigger a significant improvement in IT