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Don’t be a cybersecurity slowcoach – you need to spot possible attacks as soon as you can.

After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.)

This is a welcome change. The problem is one of incentives, and Australia has now increased the incentive for companies to secure the personal data or their users and customers.

Russia had the most breaches overall and France had the highest breach density

The out-of-bounds write issue in the kernel could be exploited to execute arbitrary code

The operators could make over $3m if they decide to sell the card dumps on underground forums

Financially motivated affiliate appears to be to blame

Suspected hacktivists inside country share sensitive info

Indictments form one of three cases involving Chinese spies

“We told you to stop but you ignored us,” said the French regulator, “so now we’re coming after you again.”

Daixin Team is actively targeting US businesses, mainly in the healthcare sector