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Read MoreWell a bit of a change to a weekly format, monthly was too far out of date to be useful.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).
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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.
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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.
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Australian Cyber News Summary March 2020: Federal Budget, Cyber Tax Breaks, Service NSW, Australian Federal Police, Telstra.
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Australian Cyber News Summary February 2020: NZ Post, Defence, NBN, Privacy, Incident, Ransomware, Telco, NSW, Police, News Corp, Scam, Audit. InfoSec, Information Security, Cyber Security, CyberSec
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Australian Cyber News Summary January 2020: Australian Red Cross, Home Affairs, Hacking, Privacy, Incident, Ransomware, ABC Australia, NSW, Encryption, Vodafone, NBN. InfoSec, Information Security, Cyber Security, CyberSec
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