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A cybersecurity founder who had a $100 million exit is back with a new idea and a $9.2 million Seed round from Paladin Capital

Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Michael Watts is back with new startup, kicking off a proactive cloud security platform, Circumvent, with US$6 million (A$9.2m) Seed round from Paladin Capital Group. Watts was…

Simon Thomsen Jun 16, 2025

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Scams are now costing Australians more than $3 billion a year

Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to financial scammers in 2022. However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) suggests the real figure is likely much higher, with an estimated…

Cec Busby Apr 17, 2023

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What you need to know about the Australian government’s 7-year plan to ramp up cyber security

After lengthy deliberation, the Australian government has released its 2023–2030 Cyber Security Strategy, which aims to make Australia one of the most cyber-secure nations in the world by 2030. It’s…

David Tuckwell Nov 23, 2023

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Children’s charity The Smith Family is the latest victim of cyber hackers

Simon Thomsen Nov 24, 2022

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Australia’s talking tough on a new cyber taskforce to ‘hack the hackers’, but that also puts a target on our national back

Lyria Bennett Moses Nov 17, 2022

It looks like corporate Australia’s key response to a raft of damaging data hacks is to hire more PR spinners

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A cybersecurity founder who had a $100 million exit is back with a new idea and a $9.2 million Seed round from Paladin Capital

Scams are now costing Australians more than $3 billion a year

What you need to know about the Australian government’s 7-year plan to ramp up cyber security

Latest Stories

Children’s charity The Smith Family is the latest victim of cyber hackers

Australia’s talking tough on a new cyber taskforce to ‘hack the hackers’, but that also puts a target on our national back

It looks like corporate Australia’s key response to a raft of damaging data hacks is to hire more PR spinners

Experts explain how the current rash of company hacks is part of a growing criminal business model for stolen data

‘DISTRESSING DEVELOPMENT’: The Medibank data breach is much worse than first thought

The government is making regulatory changes in response to the Optus data breach, but legislative reform still needed

Programmers self-sabotaging their own code with ‘protestware’. Here’s what you need to know

The Optus hacker says they deleted the stolen data, but here’s what experts want you to know

Everything that’s wrong with how Optus announced its massive data breach

Data from up to 9 million Australian customers has been exposed in massive Optus hack

A teenager is reportedly behind Uber’s latest cybersecurity breach, gaining ‘full access’

An Australian who sold spyware he wrote as a teen to stalkers has been arrested following a 5 year global hunt

Crypto is among 5 big trends in Australians getting scammed

Atlassian just had a big cybersecurity scare on its Confluence Server

Here’s why finally having a dedicated minister for cyber security matters