Category: Data Breach

Australian InfoSec and Cyber News

• Facial recognition technology is expanding rapidly across Australia. Are our laws keeping pace? July 10, 2020
  Facial recognition technology is increasingly being trialled and deployed around Australia. Queensland and Western Australia are reportedly already …
• Australia's world-first anti-encryption law should be overhauled, independent monitor says July 9, 2020
  The attorney general should be stripped of the power to force tech and social media companies to help security services to potentially spy on the …
• Labor wants to ask TikTok how it approaches Australian privacy laws | ZDNet July 8, 2020
  Wants to know how the popular Chinese social media video app uses individuals' data and what its content moderation policies actually involve. Despite …
• TikTok could be BANNED in Australia over fears the Chinese app poses a risk to national security and is feeding information to the Communist Party July 8, 2020
  The Australian Government is facing calls to ban TikTok amid concerns the social media platform poses a national security threat and users' data may …
• Only 31% of Americans concerned with data security, despite 400% rise in cyberattacks July 5, 2020
  Bad actors have flooded the enterprise with coronavirus-related attacks, but professionals working from home have other worries, Unisys Security …
• How Have I Been Pwned became the keeper of the internet's biggest data breaches July 5, 2020
  When Troy Hunt launched Have I Been Pwned in late 2013, he wanted it to answer a simple question: Have you fallen victim to a data breach? Seven years …
• iTWire - Fisher & Paykel attackers release second lot of company documents on dark web July 1, 2020
  Attackers who used the Nefilim ransomware, that works on Windows systems, to attack appliance maker Fisher & Paykel have posted links to a second lot …
• AGL loses its IT security chief July 1, 2020
  CISO departs after more than two years.
• Over 82,000 Aussies' details leaked in crypto scam July 1, 2020
  Victim's details show up on the web.
• ATO systems crash in tax time refund rush July 1, 2020
  Agency urgently investigating outage.
• Cybersecurity spending gets $1.35bn boost in wake of online attacks against Australia | ABC News July 1, 2020
• Australia is experiencing the 'three Ds' of cyber crime and it's time to wake up June 30, 2020
  I'm sitting at the kitchen table, staring at my laptop screen and watching red dots pulse on a map of the world. Each represents a cyber attack …
• Monash Uni infosec staff find gaping security hole in Palo Alto Networks gear June 30, 2020
  Authentication bypass could be targeted by foreign adversaries.
• NSW govt seeks input on next cyber security strategy June 30, 2020
  The NSW government is seeking views from industry to help shape the state’s next cyber security strategy ahead of its launch later this year. Customer …
• Cybersecurity spending boosted as Australia targeted by online attacks June 30, 2020
  The Federal Government wants to create more than 500 new jobs in its highly secretive cyber intelligence agency as part of what it says is …