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by 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 | Featured, 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 | Featured, Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Last Week 08 – 14 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 | Featured, 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
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Nov 13, 2022 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: Gilda Radner “There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.”
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Aug 28, 2022 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: Germaine Greer “Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.”
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Aug 1, 2022 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Cyber News Summary July 2022: GrainCorp’s ransomware attack, Victoria privacy commissioner third-party controls weakness, Melbourne Port Phillip Prison hacked, Woolworths everyday rewards users bad password habits, Aus trading company ACY 60gb data breach, Deakin Uni privacy breach 47k student details, WA local governments audit concerns.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jul 16, 2022 | Awareness, Quotes | 0 |
Quotes and Memes: Chinese proverb “When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.”
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Jun 30, 2022 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Cyber News Summary June 2020: Post election cyber reporting continues with the number of news stories and incidents reports increasing again. Public outcry over facial recognition at Good Guys, Bunnings and KMart. Also 2 Incidents reports and 3 audit findings.
Read Moreby Steven Kirby | Apr 2, 2022 | Monthly Australian News | 0 |
Australian Cyber News Summary March 2020: Federal Budget, Cyber Tax Breaks, Service NSW, Australian Federal Police, Telstra.
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