Parrant cited Australia as an example of escalating post-incident consequences, pointing to increased regulatory scrutiny, greater class action exposure, and costs associated with remediation, customer notification, and business disruption. “As the threat landscape continues to intensify, the impact is being felt not only in the frequency, severity, and velocity of cyber events, but also in...Read More
The conference aims to enhance international cooperation, highlighting the newly adopted United Nations Convention against Cybercrime and discussing its implications for national legislative frameworks, and reviewing complementarities and coherences between them and regional conventions, in order to ensure the establishment of a unified international legal framework to govern access to electronic evidence and facilitate its...Read More
‘The Times of India’ brings you ‘Hack of the Day’—a new weekday series of quick, practical solutions to everyday hassles. Each hack is designed to save you time, money or stress, using tools and features within your reach—from government websites to everyday apps. In simple terms, it’s simple fixes for smarter living.’There is a particular...Read More
The SoftBank Group (SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank Corp. and SB OAI Japan GK) announced the launch of “Patching as a Service,” a cybersecurity solution that applies OpenAI’s advanced AI capabilities designed to support enterprise cybersecurity vulnerability assessment and remediation planning. Combining OpenAI’s technologies provided by SB OAI Japan with SoftBank Corp.’s operational knowhow, Patching as...Read More
Commentary: Cybercrime imposes costs on the economy, including $131 billion on small businesses alone. These costs are ultimately transferred to consumers. John Lund/Getty Images Syndicated A few weeks ago, I received a text that many Americans have received. It looked like a final traffic notice that threatened license suspension, vehicle registration suspension, collections and court...Read More
A Chinese-linked hacking group secretly stole data from academic, medical and military research institutions in the U.S. and Canada for more than a year before being discovered, according to a report published by Google on Monday. The campaign, which ran between September 2023 and November 2025, targeted information related to defence intelligence, Indo-Pacific military strategy,...Read More
Cardiac monitoring company iRhythm Technologies has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to data stored within certain third-party-hosted business applications. The company revealed details of the iRhythm data breach in a recent SEC filing, stating that sensitive information, including protected health information (PHI), may have been accessed and exfiltrated by a threat actor. According to the SEC filing, iRhythm identified suspicious activity on June 8 and immediately activated...Read More
Cyber insurance limit adequacy under the microscope across Asia as average ransomware event cost tops US$5m June 16 2026 by Joana Nguyen More than 95% of average data breach losses and 90% of average first-party losses are adequately covered by insurance, according to the latest report by Willis, a WTW business.Healthcare businesses a… To continue...Read More
Mackay Sugar is Australia’s second-largest manufacturer of sugar, with over 700,000 tonnes produced annually. It’s also one of the largest employers in the region. It operates a cogeneration plant that powers approximately a third of the Mackay region’s annual power requirements, roughly the same as 27,000 households. On June 10, Mackay Sugar disclosed the incident,...Read More
Chinese police have cracked a series of cybercrime cases involving a new variant of the Silver Fox Trojan virus, which has recently emerged in cyberspace, the Ministry of Public Security’s cybersecurity bureau said on Tuesday. The Trojan is highly deceptive and mainly targets employees of enterprises and public institutions, particularly financial personnel, the bureau said....Read More
