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Australian Information Cybersecurity Incident May 2020: Geelong Council has taken the Geelong Australia website offline on Wednesday afternoon following a cyber-security incident.
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February 2020 Australian Information and Cyber Security News
Security Incidents, Privacy Breaches, Malware/Ransomware Attacks, Data Breaches, Audit Findings and more….
Minister for Defence, Marise Payne, says there was no significant exploitation from Russian hackers, who tapped into an estimated 400 Australian business’ networks last year. The US and UK were also affected. Source:...
Read MoreThe Commonwealth Bank has been accused of giving falsified evidence to the Privacy Commissioner over a contractor’s repeated unlawful accessing of a customer’s account. Source: Commonwealth Bank accused of misleading...
Read MoreFinancial firms and their customers stand to gain significant benefits from Australia’s planned open banking ecosystem. However, before those benefits can be realised, there are key security issues that need to be...
Read MoreTroy Hunt has collected a trove of 4.8 billion stolen identity records pulled from the darkest corners of the internet — but he isn’t a hacker. Working barefoot and in beachwear from his home office on...
Read MoreThe PM says everyone should change their password regularly. Source: Malcolm Turnbull reveals his iTunes account was hacked once | The West Australian
Read MoreForeign-backed saboteurs who plant sleeper bugs in critical infrastructure that could be mobilised to wreak havoc will face up to 15 years’ jail. Source: New sabotage laws for cyber attacks on Australia’s critical...
Read MoreResearchers from the University of Melbourne have been able to easily re-identify patients from confidential data released by the federal Health department, without using decryption methods. Privacy commissioner investigating....
Read MoreThe Australian Federal Police disclosed the telecommunications metadata of 13 people – including two Australian citizens – to foreign law enforcement agencies in the most recent financial year. Source: AFP’s...
Read MorePrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has reshuffled his ministry to give justice minister Michael Keenan responsibility for the Commonwealth’s digital transformation agenda and Angus Taylor the remit of the cyber security...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 19 2017 Sydney (AFP) –...
Read MoreThe number of data breaches reported by Australian companies could almost double next year under new privacy rules that start in February. Source: Data breaches likely to soar | afr.com
Read MoreWHILE most people consider Christmas to be a time of celebration and giving, there are people out there looking to exploit the holiday. Sadly, we’re not just talking about your boss forcing you to come into work the day after...
Read MoreDefence think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ranked Australia equal second with Japan out of 25 nations for cyber policies in a report released on Tuesday that said the region’s nations had grown more...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 11 2017 A skilled hacker in Vietnam...
Read MoreAustralia is expected to spend $3.8 billion on cybersecurity in 2018, up 6.5 percent from 2017, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts that spending will be driven by regulations, shifting buyer mindset, awareness of...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 5 2017 One of Australia’s...
Read MoreHigh-profile former Telstra chief information security officer Mike Burgess has been appointed the new director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate. Source: Mike Burgess returns to ASD – Strategy –...
Read MoreNEARLY half of South Australia’s SMEs limit their online presence in order to protect themselves from the threat of cybercrime, a survey has found. Source: Survey finds close to half of South Australia’s SMEs limit their online...
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Highly active cyber extortion group claims hack of Australian HBS Group, data to be published within seven days. • Mon, 27 Jul 2026 • … [...]
The maker of unmanned guidance hardware supplied to Ukraine says some systems have been taken offline, and the incident is under investigation. • Mon, … [...]
The Deadlock ransomware gang is claiming to have stolen company data from an Aussie company with projects throughout the African nation of Burkina … [...]
In brief As many as 4.8 million Origin Energy customers could be affected by a cyber attack that exposed personal data. • Experts have warned the fallout … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed that unauthorised access to customer information has occurred, marking what is believed to be the largest publicly known … [...]
What should I do? It should not take the emergence of frontier AI models to motivate a revisit of your organisation’s current cyber posture. It’s … [...]
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released its findings after investigating last year’s Qantas cyber attack. • Thu, 16 … [...]
Insider security risks: a frequently overlooked threat Cyber security and privacy controls are usually thought of as ways to protect from external … [...]
The AICD, in partnership with the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at the University of Technology Sydney, has updated its key artificial … [...]
Energy company Origin has confirmed there has been unauthorised access to and disclosure of some customers' data. In a statement released via the ASX, … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed the personal information of some of its customers has been stolen in a suspected cyber hack. The energy giant said in a … [...]
The Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre has warned that criminals are using artificial intelligence to create highly convincing investment … [...]