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COMPANY NEWS by CyberArk &  Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre:  With the ongoing cybersecurity hacks Australia has been experiencing, it is essential organisations are equipped with the knowledge and skills to be cyber resilient, particularly in the area of critical infrastructure.  

GUEST OPINION by Lani Refiti, ANZ Regional Director of cybersecurity firm Claroty: The Australian Government has recently announced a team comprising 100 of the best cybersecurity experts in Australia to track down the people responsible for recent attacks on Optus and Medibank, forming a new partnership with the Australian Federal Police and Signals Directorate.

A newly published global security threat report warns that companies may have been taking the wrong security measures in the face of growing threats from increased malware traffic within encrypted (https) web protocols as well as twice the number of attacks on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

After a tumultuous Christmas Day 2014 and Boxing Day, both the PSN and Xbox Live services finally appear to be back up and running again.

Users of social photo sharing service Snapchat have every right to be snappy, after hackers posted some 200,000 photos online, including nude selfies.

An online dating company has been slammed by Australia's privacy commissioner after it breached privacy laws, with hackers accessing the personal information of about 254,000 Australians.

Online shopping giant eBay this morning announced it was the victim of a massive cyber attack, and has requested its 145 million users to change their passwords.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued an apology to its email subscribers after it inadvertently published their email addresses and made them publicly available last week.

In an increasingly agile and fast-paced tech landscape hack weeks are a fresh and productive way for companies to innovate, and we went in-depth with 99designs, which is embarking on a hack week of its own.

Australia's consumer and competition watchdog the ACCC has been hacked, with personal data, including email addresses, potentially stolen.

A 21-year-old Queenslander has been arrested and charged with allegedly hacking a US online gaming developer’s computer network, according to police.

Crowdfunding startup Kickstarter has informed users of a massive hack, with the personal details including user names and passwords of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.

A young Australian entrepeneur has lost more than $1 million in Bitcoins in what is possibly the biggest online theft in history.

Adobe has revealed the massive hack it suffered a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining data on more than 38 million customer accounts.

A US-based security company is warning Adobe users they're at risk of further compromises after the creative software company was hacked earlier this month.

Anonymous is taking it upon itself to help the rest of the world take on North Korea, infiltrating the state’s official state media news site.

Further information has come to light about the amateur NBN hack that shocked the IT world, with Platform Networks' Managing Director saying the impact "wasn't major."