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Quotes and Memes: Home is where the Heart is. Don’t let damage to your home wipe out your hard earned savings. Protect your home, secure your assets- Meera Srinivasan
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by Steven Kirby | Sep 17, 2023 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: Home is where the Heart is. Don’t let damage to your home wipe out your hard earned savings. Protect your home, secure your assets- Meera Srinivasan
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jul 30, 2023 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: “When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.” – Chinese Proverb
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured, Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Info and Cyber Security Last Week 26th June 2023: Efos machine provider Smartpay impacted OZ and NZ customers. Libraries Tasmania had an old-school data handling incident, placing PII on this public website. The HWL Ebsworth Lawyers breach is continuing to expose clients with the Big 4 banks and the Department of Defence joining the growing list. And to finish off we welcome our new National Cybersecurity Co-Ordinator, Air Marshal Darren Goldie.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jun 12, 2023 | Featured, Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Info and Cyber Security Last Week 12th June 2023: The ACT Government has been caught up in the Barracuda email gateway vulnerability. Investigations are continuing, I suspect there will be more organisations caught in this one. An update to the HWL Ebsworth with the Tasmanian Government caught up as one of their clients. The firm a many high-profile and government clients. More to play out here as well.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Info and Cyber Security Last Week 5th June 2023: The Department of Defence made headlines by initially claiming they had only a few Chinese surveillance devices on their network, but an internal audit revealed over 400. Toyota finally revealed that Australian users were caught up in the overseas breach. Access key allowing access to databases was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 29, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week 22 – 28 May: Only one published data handling breach in the media last week. An interesting trend with data handling and internal data disclosure (via poor access control) being reported.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 28, 2023 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: “In the battle of real world vs. textbook, the real world will win every time.” – Elijah Shaw
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 27, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week Ending 15 May: No publicly disclosed incidents this week, but a lost of coverage of the budget and discussions around the upcoming changes to the Privacy Act from the OAIC. A great resource that I have subscribed to (its free) is Lexology https://www.lexology.com/ , I have it provided a filtered feed of Australian legal and legislative news..
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 15, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week 15 – 21 May: Three new breaches, Ambulance Victoria internally exposing private medical results, TechnologyOne had its Microsoft 365 environment compromised, then the Medusa ransomware group demanded $100k with 7 days to pay from the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre. Fire Rescue Victoria dispatch system five months later trying to get the system fixed…. The federal budget cyber new and a boost for privacy. review of the Privacy Act released, and joint AU/ZN privacy investigation into Latitude breach.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 8, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week 01 – 07 May: Two incidents were reported in the press this week. Amnesty International Australia’s report on a breach from December has some interesting notes surrounding the “serious harm” clause of the Australian Breach Notifications rules. HWL Ebsworth Lawyers is a good reminder for Privacy Week about excessive storage and encryption of PII data.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | May 1, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week 24 – 30 April: With the extra free time I’ve rummaged through state government audit agencies sites looking for recent audits. I’ve added two from Western Australia and once from the best state Queensland. They are worth reading to remind us that independent audits are a valuable tool (ISO 27002 5.35 Independent review of information security). Have a great Privacy Awareness Week.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Apr 24, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Reports from 17th April – 24th April: Last week TAFE SA incident where police in an unrelated investigation “found” a USB stick full of student registration and identity documents. A report from ASIC “ASIC’s report flagged inconsistencies in dealing with scams between Australia’s big four banks as a major issue” and the banking industries response makes good reading. Hopefully, it will drive a few changes.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Apr 17, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Reports from 10th April – 17th April: Last week the deeps of the Latitude (Coles and GEMoney) and Tasmanian Government (GoAnywhere) breaches kept the news feeds busy. Another insider unauthorised access incident led to criminal charges relating to kidnapping. The general themes of stories we third-party risk management and unnecessary retention of data.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Apr 10, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Reports from 3rd April – 9th April: More publicly reported breaches increasing the trend we are seeing this year now that the general media sees some new value in these stories. Canberra Health Services and Australian National Maritime Museum were both Insider Threat jobs (one fraud, the other unauthorised access and disclosure). Both are good reminders to tighten up your related internal controls. Tik Tok ban, Operation Cookie Monster and GoAnywhere are among the stories of the week.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Apr 3, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Very busy week on the breach reporting front and generally more press coverage of all things cyber. The Latitude breach’s extent revealed over 14 million records stolen. It is still to be revealed if the Tasmanian Government File-Sharing breach was part of the GoAnywhere series
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 27, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
AU Info and Cyber Security News Last Week 2023-03-27 Fallout from the Latitiue incident continues, Rio Tinto and QIRM join the list. Government considering Tech sector liability for cyber. More videos this week.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 26, 2023 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quote: Kirsten Manthorne “You are an essential ingredient in our ongoing effort to reduce Security Risk.”
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 20, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
It was hard to miss the coverage of the Latitude Finance incident during the week. There were a lot more minor breaches and ransomware attacks reported which I have yet to cover. Coverage around scams had a bit more air time, and whether to ban TikToc or not.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Mar 13, 2023 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Well a bit of a change to a weekly format, monthly was too far out of date to be useful. The main news was the Federal Government with all things cyber and privacy policy, it will be interesting to see the scope of any changes. A few minor breaches and outages, ANZ forgot to shred customer information before they put it in the bin (score one for information security).
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Dec 11, 2022 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: “The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.” – H. Stanley Judd
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