Western Australian Audit Report November 2020. WA registry system flaws force auditor to delay findings by 18 months. ‘Highly unusual step’ taken to protect foundational system.
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Australian Audit Report November 2020. Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems. Auditor finds at least seven agencies missing plans.
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Australian Netwalker Ransomware Attack November 2020. Australian end-to-end document and digital solutions provider to the legal industry Law In Order says it has suffered a “cyber security incident” and has had to limit access to most of its website as a precaution.
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Australian Workers Data Exposed October 2020. Orchard Tech a Melbourne company recruiting horticultural workers exposed sensitive personal data. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) instance containing thousands of sensitive personal documents left open for anyone to access for over a month.
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Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. Confirms a ‘number’ of servers ‘accessed’.
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Australian Audit Report October 2020: New South Wales government blasted for failing councils on cyber security. Audit “complete lack” of support for IT security.
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Australian Detailed Privacy Breach September 2020: Scouts Victoria data breach potentially nets 900 people’s personal details including bank details, birth certificates and court orders.
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Australian Privacy Exposure September 2020: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details. Security settings allowed broad access to files.
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Australian Financial Hack August 2020: ASIC sues Australian financial services company RI Advice Group for repeated hacks. Hacker spent 155 hours logged in without detection.
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Australian Ransomware Medical Attack: August 03 2020: Regis Healthcare loses data in Maze ransomware infection, prompts ACSC warning on broader campaign targeting aged care.
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Australian Telco Outage August 2020: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure, walks back on earlier claims of denial-of-service attack.
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Australian Audit Report June 2020: ACT Government agencies don’t understand data security and put privacy at risk, auditor-general says. Agencies lacking understanding, awareness.
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Australian Ransomware Attack June 2020: Fisher & Paykel Appliances struck by Nefilim ransomware. Manufacturing and distribution facilities shut down.
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Australian Audit Report June 2020: NSW unis taken to task over poor cyber stance. Institutions still without cyber risk policies, audit finds.
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Australian Audit Report May 2020: Australian federal agencies cop mass fail in core systems cyber review. Just one agency gets ‘essential eight’ tick for financial, HR systems.
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Australian Audit Report 2020: Western Australian agencies still vulnerable to cyber security weaknesses. Auditor identifies persistent infosec and business continuity risks.
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Australian Education Privacy Breach March 2020: Melbourne Polytechnic TAFE data breach exposes 55000 student, staff files. Sensitive financial, health data accessed.
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Australian Cyber Attack February 2020: Australian wool sales stopped by ransomware attack, major wool exchange supplier hit by a ransomware attack that encrypted its production databases.
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Australian Transport Malware Attack February 2020: Toll Group shuts IT systems after ‘cyber security incident’. Ransomware is believed to have infected as many as 1000 servers, including Active Directory
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NZ Privacy Breach 3 December 2019. SAP apologises after NZ firearms registry upgrade privacy breach. Gun buyback site shut down.
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