Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory - Security Advisors Brisbane - Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Identity Management

Quote: Michael Madon “and the main problem wasn’t these evil employees or employees that wanted to hurt the company…”

by Steven Kirby | Jun 2, 2020 | Quotes | 0 |

Cyber Quote: “And the main problem wasn’t these evil employees or employees that wanted to hurt the company — the real problem was the employees that were terrific employees and want to do well, but they’re not focused on security.”
Michael Madon, Mimecast, co-founder of Ataata

Incident: BlueScope Steel hit by cyber attack causing worldwide system shutdown of operations | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | May 16, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Manufacturing, Outage, Ransomware | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach April 2020: Confidential details of entire Western Australian Police Force accessed in ‘startling’ audit breach, CCC finds. An investigation has revealed a CCC staff member accessed and downloaded highly confidential information about all of the state’s 8,800 police officers.

Incident: Citizen data compromised as Service NSW falls victim to phishing attack | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | May 14, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Email Phishing, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Phishing Attack April 2020: Citizen data compromised as Service NSW falls victim to phishing attack. The attack involved the illegal accessing of 47 Service NSW staff members’ email accounts.

Incident: Hackers target West Australia’s major daily newspaper, putting data of subscribers at risk | WAtoday

by Steven Kirby | May 13, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Email Phishing, News Film and Media, Privacy, WAtoday, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Phishing Attack May 2020: Hackers target The West Australian, WA’s major daily newspaper, putting data of subscribers at risk, impersonating the administrator sending out phishing emails and accessed historic conversations.

Incident: MyBudget blames ransomware hack for system outage affecting thousands of customers | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | May 13, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Banking and Finance, Outage, Ransomware, South Australia | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack April 2020: MyBudget blames ransomware hack for system outage affecting thousands of customers, was likely compromised as it quickly moved its employees onto work-from-home arrangements amid coronavirus.

Incident: Confidential details of entire WA Police Force accessed in ‘startling’ audit breach, CCC finds | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Apr 24, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Data Handling, Email, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |

Incident: Email bungle at Australian Traffic Network seeking jobkeeper payments exposes staff’s personal details | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Apr 23, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Data Handling, Email, News Film and Media, Privacy Breach, The Guardian, Transport and Logistics | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach April 2020: Email bungle at Australian Traffic Network seeking jobkeeper payments exposes staff’s personal details. Names, addresses and birth dates of more than 100 people shared in privacy breach

Quote: Kevin Mitnick Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.”

by Steven Kirby | Apr 16, 2020 | Quotes | 0 |

Cyber Quote: Kevin Mitnick “Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.”

Audit: WA agencies still vulnerable to cyber security weaknesses | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Apr 8, 2020 | Australian Audit Report 2020, iTnews, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Audit Report 2020: Western Australian agencies still vulnerable to cyber security weaknesses. Auditor identifies persistent infosec and business continuity risks.

Incident: Federal court data breach sees names of protection visa applicants made public | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Mar 31, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Federal Government, Law & Legal, Privacy Breach, Website | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach February 2020: Federal court data breach sees names of protection visa applicants made public on the website of the Federal Court putting asylum seekers at risk

Incident: Melbourne IT services firm Geidi hit by REvil ransomware | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Mar 25, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Data Breach, IT Industry, iTWire, Ransomware, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack March 2020: Melbourne government-accredited IT services provider Geidi hit by REvil ransomware

Quote: Bobbie Garrett “Make ‘business continuity’ ‘business as usual’ and embed it into your management routines as decisions are made, instead of an afterthought check off the box exercise later”

by Steven Kirby | Mar 19, 2020 | Business Continuity, Quotes | 0 |

Cyber Quote: Bobbie Garrett “Make ‘business continuity’ ‘business as usual’ and embed it into your management routines as decisions are made, instead of an afterthought check off the box exercise later.”