Australia’s main telecommunications providers appear to be mostly wary of commenting on the security reforms for the industry which were passed by parliament last week.
Source: iTWire – Top Australian telcos mostly mum on security reforms
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- Incident: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students' details | iTnews - Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory
Australian Privacy Exposure: September 21 2020 Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details Security settings allowed broad … Read more » - iTWire - Australian IT leaders spend up on security as global weekly tech spend explodes to US15 billion
An extra US15 billion a week has been spent globally on technology by IT leaders to enable safe and secure home working during the first wave of the … Read more » - ACSC details "copy-paste compromise" attacks
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has provided more details of the cyber attack in June called out by Prime Minister Scott Morisson that … Read more » - Can the Cyber Taskforce achieve its goals?
Basic governance and risk management fundamentals and root causes, beyond the Taskforce’s remit, need to be addressed. The new Cyber Taskforce … Read more » - OAIC publishes PIA guidance for agencies
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has published guidance detailing when government agencies must complete a privacy impact … Read more » - Why you shouldn't post a picture of a boarding pass on social mediaSecurity experts are repeating warnings to keep pictures of documents with personal information and barcodes — such as boarding passes and tickets — … Read more »
- iTWire - How do you securely provide access to your data for the people who ought to access it?
iTWire asked a number of IT security executives for their best thoughts on secure data access in this unusual distributed world we're in. Here's what … Read more » - Anglicare Sydney says 17GB data transmitted to 'remote location' after attack
Anglicare Sydney has revealed 17GB of its data was transmitted “to a remote location” after a ransomware attack but claims “there is no current … Read more » - Researchers show successful myGovID code replay attack
Two security researchers are warning Australians not to use myGovID as they say the login system contains an implementation flaw that could lead to … Read more » - Right or privilege? Privacy of communications on the internet
AUSCL Australian Society for Computers and law, The Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation and Cyber Security CRC present a crucial online discussion on privacy in the digital age: Right or privilege? Privacy of communications on the internet Featuring: Edward Santow - Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission Rachael Falk - CEO, Cyber Security CRC Professor Lyria Bennett Moses - UNSW Law and Director The Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation This recording is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in privacy, rights and security online, including legal and IT professionals and academics, leaders of civil society, politicians, and policy makers. Read more » - NSW digital driver's licences to get greater sway in identity proof test
The NSW government has introduced legislation that will put digital driver’s licences on equal footing with its physical counterpart, while paving … Read more » - CSIRO IT contractor spared jail for mining Monero on supercomputer
A former CSIRO IT contractor has escaped jail time for using the country’s peak science and research organisation’s supercomputer to mine … Read more » - Curious blogger accidentally hacks Tony Abbott's boarding passA tech blogger has documented how he got personal data on former Prime Minister Tony Abbott from a completely innocuous Instagram post. Alex Hope saw … Read more »
- Sensitive data at risk after Anglicare Sydney hit by 'malicious cyber attack'
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