Incident: Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident | iTnews
Australian Cyber Incident December 2022: Fire Rescue Victoria confirms cyber attack from ‘external third party’ as outage continues. Outage could last “three or four days.”
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Incident: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry | ABC News Australia
Australian Privacy Incident December 2022: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, and harass women prompting calls for an inquiry. In the past five years, there have been complaints against 178 police for misusing LEAP.
Incident: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online | ABC News Australia
Australian Data Handling Incident December 2022: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online. Names, numbers and addresses of some unlisted customers released online.
Incident: The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack | ABC News Australia
Australian Cyber Incident November 2022: The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack. Investigation revealed a combination of names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and donation records may have been accessed
Incident: Legal Aid ACT refuses to pay ‘not insignificant’ ransom to hackers who stole data of Canberra domestic violence survivors | ABC News Australia
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”
Incident: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by cyber attack | ABC News Australia
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”
Incident: Real estate firm Harcourts latest to suffer data breach | iTWire
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.
Incident: APA, Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack | iTnews
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.
Incident: Ransomware attack on Dialog also took down defence app ForceNet | iTWire
Australian Defence Ransomware Incident October 2022: Ransomware attack on Dialog also took down Australian Department of Defence service ForceNet. An Agenda ransomware attack hit a communications platform used by the Department of Defence.
Incident: Australian Clinical Labs accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web | ABC News 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 Info & Cyber Security News
- Defending Western Australia against cyber crimeby The National Tribune on January 24, 2023
• State Government developing hazard management framework for response to significant cyber crises • Next steps involve consultation with key stakeholders …
- A new Australian-led anti-ransomware task force is now operationalby David Hollingworth on January 24, 2023
Today marks the first day of operation of the new International Counter Ransomware Task Force led by Australia and operating under the auspices of …
- Sydney man jailed for SMS phishing scamby Richard Chirgwin on January 24, 2023
A man charged with scamming customers of Telstra, CBA and NAB has been jailed for two years and eight months. The Australian Federal Police said the …
- Australia Post experiences online services outageby Kate Weber on January 23, 2023
Australia Post customers spent several hours on Monday unable to access MyPost Business and MyPost Consumer online services or track parcels due to a …
- International ransomware-fighting group gets to workby Richard Chirgwin on January 23, 2023
An international effort to counter ransomware formally commenced operations yesterday. The International Counter Ransomware Task Force (ICRTF) is part …
- SA Police asks for easier emergency access to geolocation databy Ry Crozier on January 23, 2023
South Australia Police is pressing for more permissive access to cellular location data in emergencies, arguing proposed law changes don’t go far …
- ACMA alerts the public to be vigilant against myGov SMS and email scamsby Kenn Anthony Mendoza on January 20, 2023
The ACMA has warned the public to be vigilant of fake emails and SMS claiming to be from myGov, an Australian government services portal, which may …
- Home Affairs targets cyber security uplift with 'Project Eight'by Ry Crozier on January 20, 2023
Home Affairs has set up a dedicated taskforce within its ICT division to assess its cyber security maturity against the Essential Eight model and …
- Auditor wants quicker data exchange with agenciesby Jeremy Nadel on January 18, 2023
The Australian National Audit Office is gauging private sector interest in providing a B2B gateway the office would use to receive data from …
- Three law firms join forces to pursue Medibankby Jeremy Nadel on January 16, 2023
Bannister Law Class Actions, Centennial Lawyers and Maurice Blackburn have joined forces to pursue compensation for customers affected by the …
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