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Incident: Natbuild Says Mitre 10 Hacked into its Website | Power Retail
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 3 2017 Last week hardware group...
Read MoreQueensland Labor MP Mark Bailey avoids criminal charges over deleted private email account | ABC News (Australia)
Qld Labor MP Mark Bailey will not face criminal charges after a CCC investigation into his deleted private email account. Source: Queensland Labor MP Mark Bailey avoids criminal charges over deleted private email account –...
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There's a warning tonight about a rise in fake digital IDs being sold to teenagers. Cyber safety experts say it's putting vulnerable Victorians at risk of having their identities stolen. [...]
The federal government has launched a pilot scheme that will allow Australians to compare the cyber security of smart devices before buying them. • … [...]
Key points ACMA has fined Telstra $277,000 for failing to use required identity authentication processes to prevent SIM swapping fraud. • The fraud … [...]
Modernised Definitions: Casting a Wider Net The Exposure Draft Bill would amend and clarify some of the foundational definitions in the Privacy Act … [...]
Shifting the emphasis from individuals upholding privacy standards to harmful and invasive business practices is the right move. But an existing … [...]
Threat detection and reporting Internal policies and procedures What policies or procedures must organisations have in place to protect data or … [...]
When Telstra engineers embarked on a simple server chassis replacement exercise in 2020, they could barely have contemplated the complex chain of … [...]
Ransomware actor claims hack of government department, but evidence suggests no malicious activity has occurred… But patient data from multiple … [...]
Key points The Northern Territory government plans to offer digital driver's licences built to internationally recognised standards by the end of the … [...]
Key points Draft legislation would give Australian organisations 72 hours to notify the Information Commissioner of an eligible data breach, replacing … [...]
You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even … [...]