
Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 11 2016 A local council in...
Read MoreSelect Page
Home » Australian InfoSec Incident » Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016
by Steven Kirby | Nov 11, 2016 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Local Government, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, User Error, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 11 2016 A local council in...
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Oct 22, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Hacked, New South Wales, The Daily Telegraph | 0 |
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 22 2016 A series of beach mounted...
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jul 20, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, iTnews, Ransomware, Vulnerability, Website Compromise | 0 |
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 20 2016 Dunlop’s site compromised,...
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jul 7, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Denial of Service, Hacked, Real Estate and Property Management, Victoria | 0 |
July 7, 2016. POLICE have launched an investigation into an unprecedented cyber attack against a booming digital real estate firm. The company attacked — Box+Dice — is suggesting it could have been launched by vested interests in the state’s multi-billion dollar housing industry.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 21, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Local Government, Politician and Politics, Queensland, Social Media Incident | 0 |
March 21, 2016. Toowoomba Regional Council candidate, Diane Warr was left dumbfounded after a hacker posted sexually explicit photographs on her personal Facebook page.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 7, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Hacked, Retail, Victoria, Vulnerability, Website Compromise | 0 |
March 7, 2016. HACKERS have replaced the Dandenong Plaza website home page with a disturbing image of a Christmas-themed clown.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Feb 19, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Business Continuity, iTnews, State Government, Virus Incident, Western Australia | 0 |
February 19, 2016. A cybersecurity breach that led to a shut down of communications in the West Australian parliament on Tuesday night has been blamed on an undiscovered virus.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Feb 4, 2016 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Cyber Attack Incident, External Penetration Attack, Government Incident, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |
February 4, 2016.. The NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy has revealed that it was the target of a cyber attack in December 2015, during the time several major projects were being considered. This includes the $1.2 billion Shenhua Watermark coal mine, indirectly controlled by the Chinese government — which experts say is a possible source of the attack.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 19, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Privacy Breach, The Guardian, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |
Jan 19, 2016. The Australian federal police accidentally revealed the personal details of an assault victim to the alleged perpetrator, risking the safety of the complainant and his family, according to an AFP risk assessment.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 19, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, In the Press, iTnews, Malware, Medical and Health Care, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 19 2016 One of Victoria’s largest...
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 17, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Information Redaction, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, The Register, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |
Jan 17, 2016. Australian public sector agencies have a persistent problem trying to redact PDFs: this time, the guilty party is the Medical Council of NSW.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2016 | Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, The Canberra Times, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |
Jan 15, 2016. A Canberra psychology clinic has apologised after it accidentally shared personal details of hundreds of patients in a group email.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2016 | Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Credit Card, Hacked, Malware, New South Wales, Travel and Accommodation, Victoria, Western Australia | 0 |
January 15, 2016. Hyatt Hotels is the latest hotel chain to fall victim to hackers stealing sensitive credit card information from guests around the world, including flagship properties in Australia.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 13, 2016 | Account Compromise Incident, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, In the Press, Politician and Politics, Social Media Incident, Twitter Incident, Victoria | 0 |
Jan 12, 2016. Victorian Creative Industries Minister Martin Foley says someone hacked his Twitter account and liked tweets of pornographic images.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jan 9, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Breach, Data Loss, Insider Threat, Manufacturing, Stuff.co.nz | 0 |
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 9 2016 Former BlueScope employee has...
Read MoreHome » Australian InfoSec Incident » Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016
The Home Affairs department is experimenting with using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool under supervision in several of its divisions, …
Doctors in Perth have been ordered not to use AI bot technology, with authorities concerned about patient confidentiality. In an email obtained by the …
When Anna* received a letter from Victoria's fire service advising her personal information may have been stolen in a cyber attack, she wasn't too …
Australian Info and Cyber Security Last Week 22nd May 2023 Very late this week, safety safe for your next meeting “Wear eye protection when prodding …
Latitude Financial is forecasting a first-half statutory loss of between $95 million and $105 million after a cyber attack “closed or severely …
Source: Unsplash/Jefferson Santos. Something as simple as including holiday details in your out-of-office email could give cyber criminals an edge …
Australian Medical Data Handling Incident, 25 May 2023 Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based …
Warnings about keeping people's information safe when using artificial intelligence have been published by the Privacy Commissioner, directed at both …
Companies should consider their internal documentation to avoid regulatory action against greenwashing or poor cyber-risk policies and ensure their …
Opinion: “As the world becomes more interconnected and technology-dependent, settlement agents find themselves facing a growing risk of cyber attacks …
No advertisements, marketing, sales, or unsolicited emails. Your email address is ONLY used to send the publications listed above.