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As it works to better align the app with evolving user behaviors, Instagram’s rolling out a new option to share feed posts with Close Friends only, providing another way to facilitate more enclosed group engagement.
Some users are now seeing a new ‘Audience’ selector option within the post composer flow, which enables them to share their feed post with ‘Close Friends’ only, as opposed to posting to their profile as normal.
This is an expansion of the Close Friends option that Instagram added for Stories back in 2018.
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Russian Ransomware Gang AlphV Targets Pathology Company, Law Firms in Latest String of Attacks
A notorious Russian ransomware gang which infiltrated one of Australia’s largest law firms has now targeted a string of Victorian businesses, which it is extorting over terabytes of stolen data.
The cybercriminal group AlphV, which is also known as BlackCat, has claimed responsibility over attacks on several companies from which it claims to have stolen at least 4.95 terabytes of data, which it has threatened to publish.
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Dymocks Warns Of Data Breach, Criminal Claims Possession of 1.2m Customer Records
Australian bookseller Dymocks has begun notifying its customers of a data breach that could affect some personal information.
According to a “customer notice” on the store’s website, a “concerned third party” informed Dymocks of “unusual activity”. Dymocks became aware of this on 6 September and immediately began an investigation.
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University of Sydney Discloses Third-Party Data Breach
The University of Sydney has disclosed a data breach potentially affecting international students in a notice on the uni’s website.
It details that a third-party provider is to blame for the incident but it isn’t known at this stage what system exactly this third-party provider is responsible for.
Link: https://gizmodo.com.au/2023/09/university-of-sydney-data-breach/
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Just 27% of Australian Orgs Disclose Cyber Attacks
A mere 27% of Australian organisations experiencing cyber-attacks are reporting this to authorities, according to research from Cloudflare.
In a new report, the company found that 76% of IT leader respondents to the survey experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, with the top attack types being phishing, web attacks and DDoS attacks. Meanwhile, 37% of Australian organisations reported facing more than 10 security incidents in the past year.
But only 27% of those who had experienced an attack disclosed this to the authorities. In addition, just 43% of total respondents indicated that they were highly prepared to prevent attacks.
