credential stuffing, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data breach, hacking

What Is Credential Stuffing and How Can I Protect Myself?

Cyber-skullduggery is becoming the bane of modern life, with credential stuffing attacks being the most recent form. Australia’s prime minister has called it a “scourge,” and he is correct. In 2022–23, nearly 94,000 cyber crimes were reported in Australia, up 23 percent on the previous year. In the latest high-profile attack, around 15,000 customers of ...

Troy Oakes

A login page.

The Highly Secretive Five Eyes Alliance Has Disrupted a China-Backed Hacker Group

This week the Five Eyes alliance — an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States — announced its investigation into a China-backed threat targeting U.S. infrastructure. Using stealth techniques, the attacker — referred to as “Volt Typhoon” — exploited existing resources in compromised networks in a technique called ...

Troy Oakes

Flags of Australia, Canada, the U.S., the UK, and New Zealand with the image of an eye on them to symbolize the Five Eyes alliance.

National Cyber Security Centre Warns British Businesses of Chinese Hacking

Some 2,300 British businesses were recently contacted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and urged to update their servers and use the latest Microsoft security patches to protect their Outlook emails due to possible Chinese hacking. Thus far, less than half of the approximately 8,000 affected businesses have taken steps to download the security ...

Helen London

The Hafnium hacker group.

U.S. Takes Action Against Chinese Hacking Group

The U.S. government has legally charged seven members of a China-based hacking group called APT41. Of the seven members, five are Chinese nationals. They have been accused of compromising government networks, hacking company servers to get ransoms, and spying on activists from Hong Kong. Hacking criminal charges The five members are said to have ties ...

Nspirement Staff

Computer hacking.

China Hacking Semiconductor Companies to Hurt Taiwan Economy

Driven by a desire to hurt Taiwan, China is hacking into the semiconductor companies in the island nation. Taiwan is home to one of the biggest semiconductor industries in the world. The sector is basically the core of the country’s economy. Even China is unable to match Taiwan’s many achievements when it comes to semiconductor ...

Max Lu

Semiconductors.

Password123: Is This Your Password?

Setting all passwords to password123 or any of its variations is just not good enough. Why? Because everyone’s doing it, and the hackers know too well. According to a report by Securelink, 80 percent of all hacking is related to weak or stolen passwords. This does not just apply to personal computers, but to company networks ...

Armin Auctor

A hacker.

U.S. Sentences Chinese Communist Spy to 4-Year Jail Term

A Chinese national from California has been sentenced to four years in prison for being a communist spy for Beijing. The convict, 56-year-old Edward Peng, used to work as a tour operator in the San Francisco Bay Area. “This case exposed one of the ways that Chinese intelligence officers work to collect classified information from ...

Jack Roberts

U.S. District Court criminal complaint.

Serious Security Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Computer Chips

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) security researchers Berk Sunar and Daniel Moghimi led an international team of researchers that discovered serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips made by Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics. The flaws affect billions of laptop, server, tablet, and desktop users around the world. The proof-of-concept attack is dubbed TPM-Fail. The two newly found ...

Troy Oakes

WPI security researchers Berk Sunar (left) and Daniel Moghimi.

Beware When Traveling to China: Authorities Hacking Tourists’ Phones

The fact that Communist China has a high-tech surveillance system that constantly keeps watch over its citizens 24/7 is well known. However, several media outlets are now reporting that this surveillance extends to visitors as well, with authorities hacking their phones. Visitors under surveillance through hacking phones Tourists to China’s border regions like Xinjiang are ...

Max Lu

A street in Xinjiang.

Australian Intelligence Officials Blame China for Hacking University

The Australian National University (ANU) was recently the victim of hacking where 19 years’ worth of data about students and staff was stolen. According to intelligence officials, China is the number one suspect in the attack. Hacking ANU “In late 2018, a sophisticated operator accessed our systems illegally. We detected the breach two weeks ago… ...

Armin Auctor

Australian national University (ANU).