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‘Months, Not Years’: The Five Eyes AI Warning No Law Firm Should Scroll Past.
Your next phishing email won't have a single typo - because a machine wrote it. This fortnight: an unprecedented Five Eyes warning that AI-powered attacks are close, a professional-services firm...
68 days. That’s how long attackers are hiding in Australian networks before anyone notices.
Your device management tool just became a weapon. This fortnight: Iran-linked hackers wipe 200,000 devices using Microsoft's own admin tools, an Australian healthcare software vendor hit by ransomware this week,...
Lexis Nexis Breaches – and your data maybe in the dump
Your legal research tool just became a threat vector. This fortnight: a breach that hits law firms at the supply chain, Australia's first Federal Court cyber penalty, an elite school...
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Mobile Forensics for Litigation: What’s Actually Recoverable From a Smartphone
The Message That Won the Case "The matter hinged on a single text message." A family law colleague described a property settlement that turned on proving when one party knew...
Why Every Law Firm Needs a Tabletop Exercise
It's 9:47am on a Tuesday. Your practice manager call to say that staff can't access the document management system. Then the ransom note appears. Who makes the call on whether...
Digital Forensics for Law Firms: What It Actually Involves (And Why It Matters)
The Question That Changes Everything "We need to know what they took." In fifteen years of digital forensics work, I've heard this question hundreds of times. It usually comes 24-48...
What Can Be Recovered From an iPhone in a Forensic Investigation
When an iPhone becomes central to a legal matter such as employment dispute, family law, commercial litigation, clients often ask the same question: what can actually be recovered? The answer...
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Cybersecurity news from around the world
The Shift: A New Era of AI Regulation
Explore how recent US export controls on frontier AI models like Anthropic's Fable signal a new era of regulatory uncertainty. Learn how security leaders can build resilient AI strategies by...
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn't record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen What Happened During planned maintenance, a Telstra NTP server restarted with its clock...
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Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat...
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What the Numbers Say About FIFA 2026 Cyber Risk
The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened on June 11. By that date, according to Check Point Research, the fraud infrastructure targeting it had already been built, staged, and partially deployed....
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Spring cleaning your browser
There's something so satisfying about a good spring cleaning: the kind where you open the windows, clear the clutter, and finally deal with the things you've been ignoring all winter...
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Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild
Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in...
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Securing GenAI in the Browser: Policy, Isolation, and Data Controls That Actually Work
The browser has become the main interface to GenAI for most enterprises: from web-based LLMs and copilots, to GenAI‑powered extensions and agentic browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Employees are leveraging the...
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MITRE shares 2025’s top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses
MITRE has shared this year's top 25 list of the most dangerous software weaknesses behind over 39,000 security vulnerabilities disclosed between June 2024 and June 2025. The list was released...
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