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NZ Incident: Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million people | ZDNet
NZ Medical Data Breach 8 October 2019. New Zealand’s Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million New Zealand residents.
NZ Incident: New Zealand ComCom suffers breach after laptop theft | ZDNet
NZ Laptop Stolen 8 October 2019: New Zealand’s Commerce Commission (ComCom) confidential information on laptop belonging to ‘external provider’ containing over 200 meeting and interview transcripts taken in burglary, which has seen the provider dumped.
Incident: ‘Trusted inside access’: Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach | Brisbane Times
October 02 2019 Sydney Insider Charged: Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach containing property valuations, personal details and driver’s licences of a combined 275,000 individuals.
Audit: Queensland government cyber defences fail ethical hack test | iTnews
Audit Failure 2019: Queensland government cyber defences fail ethical hack test, sensitive information accessed with relative ease.
Incident: Victorian hospitals targeted in ransomware cyber attack | ABC News (Australia)
October 01 2019 Victorian Hospital Ransomware Attack: The scale of a ransomware attack on some of the state’s major regional hospitals that has forced healthcare providers to go offline.
NZ Incident: Auckland Asics store screens hacked to show pornography | Stuff.co.nz
NZ Hacked 29 September 2019: Promotional screens on a central Auckland Asics store were hacked to show pornographic content on Sunday morning.
Incident: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible | iTnews
September 20 2019 Australian Medical Privacy Breach: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible. Australian servers alone leaked 50,000 sets of data comprising 2.5 million accounts.
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- Australia ramps up encryption fight October 10, 2019
- Incident: 'Trusted inside access': Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach | Brisbane Times - Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory October 9, 2019
- Cyber defences no match for hackers of Queensland government entities October 9, 2019
- Minister must reassure New Zealanders after cybersecurity breach October 9, 2019
- How many law firms have recently suffered cybersecurity breaches? October 9, 2019
- It’s time to reboot Australia’s cybersecurity strategy | The Strategist October 9, 2019
- Cyber security a road block to digital innovation - Government News October 9, 2019
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The Privacy Commissioner's Office has a wide range of functions. Some of these include investigating complaints about breaches of privacy, running education programmes, and examining proposed legislation and how it may affect individual privacy.
Quote: Stephane Nappo “A weak digital security can jeopardize a robust physical safety.”
Security Quote: Stephane Nappo “A weak digital security can jeopardize a robust physical safety.”
Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch “Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
Security Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch “Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
Quote: Martin Firrell “Security is no replacement for liberty.”
Digital Rights Quote: Martin Firrell “Security is no replacement for liberty.”
Quote: William Shakespeare “Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”
Quote: William Shakespeare “Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”
Quote: Theodore Forstmann “The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.”
"The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks."Theodore Forstmann Privacy Breaches, Data Breaches, Hacked, Insiders, Poor Data Handling, Australian OnlyAustralian Only - Reported adverse audit findings reported in...
Quote: Data Security Quote Mashup
Data Security Mashup: Most organisations look at data as an asset, not a liability. If you don’t store it you can’t loose it.
Quote: Susan Jeffers “.. security is not having things; it’s handling things.”
".. security is not having things; it’s handling things.”" - Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Quote: Mark Gough “Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.”
"Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel." - Mark Gough
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