[ad_1] South Korea telco KT said on Monday that the temporary nationwide shutdown of its network earlier today was caused by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Customers who use the telco’s network were unable to access the internet for around 40 minutes at around 11am on Monday. Users were unable to use credit cards, […]

[ad_1] UK supermarket giant Tesco has restored access to its website and app after an outage struck the service on Saturday, preventing customers from ordering or cancelling deliveries until Sunday evening. In a statement to The Guardian, Tesco said that “an attempt was made to interfere with our systems, which caused problems with the search […]

[ad_1] With Services Australia’s costly Welfare Payments Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT) now in its final year of delivery, the agency said it would transition over half of all active legacy capabilities used to distribute welfare payments in Australia into its new technology platform by June 2022. The WPIT project is in its sixth year and is […]

[ad_1] Singtel has sold off its payment card compliance business Trustwave in a deal worth $80 million, as part of efforts to “optimise” the group’s resource allocation and growth focus. The move is part of the Singapore telco’s strategic review of its digital businesses that kicked off in May this year. Parked under its cybersecurity […]

[ad_1] Image: ACT Policing The Australian Federal Police is conducting an internal review to implement a new cyber offensive arm, AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw said at Senate Estimates on Monday morning. “At the moment, we’re actually going through an internal review of how we can be more aggressive in cyber, and it may mean a […]