I'm stepping down as co-CEO of Atlassian after an incredible 23 years. I'm so grateful to everyone along this journey. atlassian.com/blog/announcem…

Today, Mandiant / Google is opening up a Can o’ Sandworms. I’m incredibly proud to have led the year+ long effort with a brilliant group of colleagues to graduate Sandworm into APT44. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th…

Five individuals have been arrested across Australia, and 32 overseas, following an international police takedown of a cybercrime platform used by cybercriminals to steal personal credentials from victims around the world.
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Most Australians will never have heard of the kakarratul, an elusive silky mole that burrows in the desert and has no eyes. Now a growing threat is shrinking its habitat. ab.co/43N5DqO

Big scoop from Street Talk: Singapore owners of Optus looks to sell the telco for $16 billion.

afr.com/street-talk/si…

The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life

Virgin Australia has announced its intention to allow small pets onboard domestic flights within the next 12 months, subject to a few housekeeping rules.

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Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇

Another Australian, an aspiring politician, provided insights into the factional dynamics of his party, analysis of a recent election and the names of up-and-comers – presumably so the A-team could target them too.

Most commonly, they offer their targets consulting opportunities, promising to pay thousands of dollars for reports on Australian trade, politics, economics, foreign policy, defence and security. Additional payments can be offered for ‘inside’ or ‘exclusive’ information.

Avast told customers its products would prevent online tracking, then they sold their browsing data to data brokers. Now the FTC is making them pay $16.5 million.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc…

Russia, traditionally a safe haven for cybercriminals attacking Western countries, unexpectedly detains Aleksandr Ermakov, the hacker behind Australia’s Medibank attack, as well as other members of the SugarLocker ransomware gang.
cybernews.com/news/medibank-…

Today was a big day for the United States government and United Kingdom government. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.K. National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Cyber Division unveiled a massive, multi-year long investigation which has led to a catastrophic blow to Lockbit…

I have an old car, so I was barely aware this was such a huge thing. Wild. choice.com.au/consumers-and-…

I wuz robbed.

More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!

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BREAKING: Joshua Schulte, who was convicted of orchestrating the largest leak of classified material in CIA history, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. trib.al/VwblJeu

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