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Australia’s Think Tank Has Been Hit By a Chinese Cyber Attack

The Lowy Institute, known as Australia’s biggest, independent, foreign affairs think tank. Providing high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on the international trends shaping Australia and the world. The organisation has now been hit by cyber-attacks that have reportedly come from China and throughout this article, we will break down how this has happened and if it …

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50,000 Printers Were Hacked To Promote Youtube’s Largest Channel (PewDiePie)

This story is quite unbelievable but it happened. Throughout this article, we will look to break down the back story and dive deeper into the Hack.  PewDiePie is an independent Youtuber with the largest subscription base on the Google YT platform with over 70 Million subscribers. PewDiePie who’s real name is Felix Kjellberg, is known for …

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Dell.com Resets All Passwords After Cyber Attack

Dell, one of the biggest technology companies in the world has stopped an attack on its Dell.com electronics store after an unknown group of hackers attempted to steal all customer data including their names, home addresses, email addresses and hashed passwords, through their internal network. On November 9th, Dell detected an disrupted unauthorised activity on …

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30 MILLION Facebook Accounts Have Been Hacked. Is Yours One?

Facebook announced it’s worst-ever security breach last month, a breach that has enabled a group of unknown hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the ‘view as’ feature. The company posted a brief post on its blog last month however, this has now been updated bring …

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Singapore Data Hackers Steal 1.5M Of Personal Data (quarter of the population including the Prime Minister!)

Local hackers in Singapore have stolen over 1.5 Million residents personal data, or around a quarter of the countries population, through an attack on SingHealthm – according to officials.    The “Deliberate, targeted and well-planned” attack, according to a Singaporean Government statement. The breach was executed when hackers broke into the country’s Government health database creating …

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