Qantas obtains court order to prevent third-party access to stolen data

Qantas Airways has obtained an interim injunction in the NSW Supreme Court to prevent the stolen data from being accessed or published by anyone, including by any third parties. Earlier this month, a hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of Qantas customers, Australia’s biggest such breach in years. Similar incidents […]

Cloudflare makes changes to avoid repeat of 1.1.1.1 DNS outage

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is making changes to avoid a repeat of a service outage that took down its popular 1.1.1.1 domain name system (DNS) resolver, affecting users globally. The company wrote in a post-mortem that a seemingly innocuous configuration change, which went unnoticed for a month after it had been made, was behind the outage. […]