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Australian Cyber Attack November 2022: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by a cyber attack. The company says hackers have revealed a sample “of what is believed to be stolen data”
Australian Cyber Incident November 2022: Real estate company Harcourts says its Melbourne City franchise has been breached. The rental property database had been accessed by an unknown third party without authorisation.
Australian Ransomware November 2022: Infrastructure operator APA Group, and agribusiness Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack. Other previously unreported incidents, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and Workskil Australia.
Australian Medical Privacy Breach October 2022: Australian Clinical Labs subsidiary Medlab Pathology, accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web. ACL says it first learned of the attack in February but believed no data was stolen
Australian Ransomware Attack, 28 October 2022: Gold Coast Australian: Strata management firm SSKB is the latest company to fall victim to a ransomware attack. Attackers’ posted a ransom demand and claimed to have stolen 200GB of data.
Australian Phishing Attack October 2022: Australian Institute of Company Directors (AIDC) cybersecurity conference LinkedIn Chat hit by hackers. Official-looking AICD link and Eventbrite link were posted asking for credit card details.
Australian Energy Utility Incident October 2022. Electricity and gas retailer EnergyAustralia has disclosed a breach of its MyAccount platform. The company says affected 323 small business and residential customers and was automated through use of a password bot.
Australian Ransomware Attack October 2022: Singtel-owned Australian-based IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware. The attack on Dialog was carried out using the Agenda ransomware that runs only on Windows systems
Australian Phishing Incident October 2022: The Costa Group, Australia’s leading grower, packer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, has been hit by “a malicious and sophisticated IT phishing attack”. The attack could have resulted in passport, bank and superannuation details being leaked, as also tax file numbers.
West Australian Audit Report August 2022: Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses. 12 of the 45 entities did not met expectations across all six control categories and 68% of the audit results were below the minimum benchmark.
The rate of damaging privacy breaches is unlikely to slow down over the next year, experts say, with exponential growth in personal information …
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Funded by the Australian Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts (DITRDCA), the independent study …
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Research commissioned by cybersecurity company NordVPN reveals that 26% of Australians have been scammed while shopping online — equivalent to seven …
Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed Deepak Budhiraja as chief information officer, following the departure of Michael McKeown in August. …
A senate committee has recommended passage of law changes that would substantially increase the penalties for large or repeated privacy breaches, …
The state government has delayed its rollout of digital licences in Townsville after major data breaches at Optus and Medibank. Townsville was …
The Smith Family says it has informed around 80,000 donors their personal details may have been accessed after it was targeted by a hacker who …
Quotes and Memes: Gilda Radner “There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.”
