Media activity
Read the latest UQ Cyber Security news, from around the globe.
2025
- What we know about Amazon's AWS outage and why it was such a big deal, ABC News, 21 October, 2025
- Ransomware hackers strike Toowoomba pharmacy as businesses warned of new tactics, ABC News, 1 October, 2025
- Student couldn't hack parking fees before $40k 'ransom', Australian Associated Press, 26 June 2025
- Deleting genetic data held by failed firm might not stop it being sold, The Australian Financial Review, 25 March 2025
2024
- Leading Cyber Security 2024 Report, Queensland Futures Institute, 14 November 2024
- Cyber Threat Report: The UAE Financial Sector Cyber Threat Landscape, ADGM Academy Research Centre, 23 October 2024
- How does Siri know when I say ‘Hey Siri’ if it isn’t constantly listening?, UQ, 15 October 2024
- Internet history threatened in Internet Archive hack, ACS Information Age, 14 October 2024
2023
- Online shopping scams and how to spot and avoid fake websites, ABC News, 13 June 2023
- Who is using your data?, ABC Radio National, 22 May 2023
- Latitude Financial will not pay ransom to cyber hackers as millions of customer records compromised, ABC News, 11 April 2023
- Medical Research Centre Gets Data Breached, 10 News First, 20 March 2023
2022
- Reports of random packages in seemingly benign 'brushing' scams could lead to potentially damaging identity theft, Courier Mail, 29 October 2022
- Hack leaves Cape York medical records vulnerable to cyber crime, Cape York Weekly, 7 October 2022
- Universities on cyber alert after Deakin data breach, from Campus Review and The Australian, 18 July 2022
2021
- UQ’s submission to Strengthening Australia’s Cyber Security Regulations and Incentives, 31 August 2021
- UQ Cyber Seed Funding Winners 2021, UQ Cyber, 4 April 2022
- Cyber security in the age of Industry 4.0, Utility Magazine, 29 January 2021
2020
- Why truthful data is making a comeback, Australian Financial Review, 26 November 2020
- University of Queensland is hacking through perceptions that cybersecurity is a 'man's game', ABC News, 26 November 2020
- UQ launches TestLab for energy analytics, cyber security, IT News, 04 November 2020
- New UQ lab to put power networks through their paces, The Age, 5 November 2020
- Digital revolution underway with UQ’s Industry 4.0 Energy TestLab, UQ News, 4 November 2020
- Australian cyber defence strategy, 4EB Global Digital Source News, 3 September 2020
- Garmin ransomware attack, ABC Radio Darwin, 10 August 2020
- Garmin hit by ransomware in cyber attack, 7 News, 29 June 2020
- UQ and HP team up to encourage women into cyber security, UQ News, 29 June 2020
- Hundreds of security cameras across Australia have been hacked, 7 News Brisbane, 24 June 2020
- Explanation of cyber attacks on Australia and what it means for everyday people, ABC Radio, 19 June 2020
- UQ cyber security Prof Ryan Ko plains how cyber attacks can impact big and small businesses, 7 News, 10 June 2020
- UQ Cyber Squad leaps towards global top 10 position, UQ News, 20 May 2020
- Less food poisoning, more cybercrime: the unintended consequences of the coronavirus shutdown, SBS News, 7 April 2020
- Why people spreading coronavirus anxiety on Twitter might actually be bots, The Conversation, 1 April 2020
- Stop COVID-19 Bots, Contact Magazine, 20 March 2020
- How does cyber security stop hacking?, Channel Ten Scope TV, 19 February 2020
2019
- UQ student hackers thrash competitors, UQ News, 21 November 2019
- Almost one in three Australian adults were affected by cybercrime last year, SBS News, 9 October 2019
- How the internet works, Scope TV, 11 August 2019
- The father of fuzzing says hackers shouldn’t get a free ride, UQ News, 22 May 2019
- Holiday scam warning, 9 News Queensland, 3 April 2019