KirbyIDau – Australian Cyber Aware

• Government reveals censorship overhaul, stiff privacy penalties for Digital Platforms
  A radical overhaul of Australia’s analogue era censorship and classification laws alongside reforms to the Privacy Act to “capture technical data and …
• Unlawful metadata access is easy when we’re flogging a dead law
  After watching this year’s media raids and the prosecution of lawyers and whistleblowers, it’s not hard to see why Australians wonder about excessive …
• Top APAC security predictions for 2020
  Cyber security remains a hot topic in 2019 across Asia-Pacific, a region plagued by cyber attacks that have grown in intensity over the past year.In …
• Pollies to face phishing tests after Parliament breach
  Parliamentarians and their staff will be subject to phishing email simulations in the wake of the state-sponsored cyber attack against Parliament …
• ACMA recommends immediate action to combat scams | ACMA
  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has today released its Combating Scams report which recommends new enforceable obligations on …
• Telstra opposes direct govt network access
  Pushes joint-agreements as solution for faster cyber response.
• Navigating security standards: a minefield for Australian companies
  IT and Security leaders are struggling to navigate the many security standards and guidelines available, to the point where they are unable to …
• The week in security: Australian industries vulnerable to hacking: “We are all Ukraine”
  Yet even where companies have proven their compliance with security best practice, that doesn’t mean they will always continue to be great, as a …
• CBA tells government to declassify cyber intelligence faster
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has told Australia’s cyber spooks that it wants secret threat intelligence declassified faster so it and other …
• Renewed calls for dedicated Australian cyber minister and cyber leadership
  Australia's cybersecurity is too important to struggle along with part-time attention, say submitters to the Cyber Security Strategy 2020. The public …
• Uni IT chiefs want an 'Aussie lamb campaign' approach to cyber awareness
  Where the bloody hell’s your security?
• Australians are being watched at work. So what can we do about it?
  Software that logs each keystroke. Car trackers that monitor location as well as braking and acceleration. Australian employers are collecting …
• Sustained attacks on Australian education reflect data’s continued vulnerability
  Single threat actor pummelling educational institutions with malicious email
• Digital harvesting: Aussies increasingly concerned over personal information leaks
  And there is growing discontent with those vast “terms and conditions” sections on websites which we routinely click without reading — often because …
• Govt proposes national cyber regime for IoT
  Voluntary code to apply to smart devices such speakers, TVs.
• Businesses urged to lift cybersecurity
  Australia is "too vulnerable" to cyber attack and the rising cost of managing risk must be brought under control through greater cooperation, Home …
• Parliament House hack report reveals poor password practices
  It took eight days to flush February's cyber attackers from Australia's parliamentary network. A procedure to authenticate staff asking to reset …
• Cybersecurity is a national priority for Australia | The Strategist
  Australia’s cybersecurity has never been more important to our economic prosperity and national security.At the same time, there are more cyber …
• Incident: A major hack at one of NSW’s largest drug rehabilitation services, Adele House has left hundreds of patients at risk | The Australian - Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory
  Australian Medical Data Breach November 2019: A hack at one of NSW’s largest drug rehabilitation services, Adele House has left hundreds of patients …
• NAB sheds new light on data breach incident, outages
  Affected customers revised down as staff cop mandatory training.