Food and agriculture tends to be an overlooked corner of the cybersecurity conversation despite being critical infrastructure where a cyber incident isn’t just a business problem, but can quickly escalate into a food-safety and public-health crisis. The sector operates on unforgiving timelines. Products spoil. Supply chains depend on perfect handoffs. Margins are already razor-thin. A...Read More

Australia has done it. Indonesia has followed, and the United Kingdom intends to do so from 2027. As governments move to keep children below a prescribed age off social media, South Africa faces the same difficult question: should it shut the door too? Linique Hanekom, whose work at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Centre for Health...Read More

If money has just left your bank account because of an online scam, one of the first numbers to call in India is 1930. The Cybercrime Helpline 1930 is designed to get financial cyber fraud reported quickly enough for police, banks and financial intermediaries to try to stop the stolen money from moving further through...Read More

The attacker who pulled roughly 4,000 BTC out of Liquid Network’s federation wallet over the weekend says the coins are coming back, on one condition: that the bug behind the withdrawal is patched everywhere first. Messages sent onchain The party, which Liquid described as a purported white-hat hacker, has been communicating with Blockstream through Bitcoin...Read More

Identity compromise is playing a central role in ransomware attacks against education organisations, according to new research from Sophos, which found that identity-based techniques were used in 85 per cent of attacks against the sector. The figure, from Sophos’ State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report, is above the 79 per cent cross-sector average and...Read More

cross Southeast Asia, rapid digitization has quietly rewritten the rules of state legitimacy and national defense. How each government handles cybersecurity reveals who is actively building resilience and who is simply improvising under pressure. Singapore set the regional standard early. Since launching its Cyber Security Agency in 2015, the city-state has systematically built a cohesive...Read More

Late last year, Australia became the first country in the world to institute a nationwide ban on children younger than 16 having social media accounts. Six months in, most indications are that the law has largely failed at keeping young teens off the platforms, in a disappointing start to an initiative carefully watched by parents...Read More

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) should make social media platforms change instead of banning children from using the apps, Estonia’s digital minister told AFP on Sept 7, just over a week before the EU is due to announce an age limit. Estonia has been a lone voice in opposing the EU’s plans to restrict children’s...Read More

Detectives from the Cybercrime squad have today arrested a man as part of their investigation into a report of a data breach involving a former CFMEU member and subsequent sharing of personal information and photographs. A 39-year-old Taylor Lakes man was arrested this morning and interviewed by police. He has subsequently been released pending further...Read More

Can the act of rescuing stolen Bitcoin coexist with ethical principles? The recent retrieval of 3,400 Bitcoin from the clutches of the Liquid Federation’s wallet, a sum valued at around $270 million, plunges us into a moral quagmire. This extraordinary event serves not only as a reminder of the fragility enveloping digital assets but also...Read More