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Incident: Eagers Automotive says IT outage stems from cyber incident | iTnews
Australian Automotive Cyber Incident, 29 December 2023: Eagers Automotive says IT outage stems from cyber incident, enters trading halt. Impacting our IT systems in some operating locations across Australia and New Zealand.
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Incident: Nissan discloses cyber incident in Australia and NZ | iTnews
Australian Financial Service Data Breach, 7 December 2023: Nissan Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services discloses cyber incident. Also affecting Nissan Financial Services, Mitsubishi Motors Financial Services, Renault Financial Services, Skyline Car Finance. RAM Truck Finance and LDV Financial Services.
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Incident: Major Australian port operator shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Ports Cyber Attack, 11 November 2023: Major Australian port operator DP World Australia shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country. Operator failed to fix a critical IT vulnerability; the patch had been released over a month earlier.
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Incident: SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Patient Data, 28 October 2023: SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care. Health information of 121 patients and the names and phone numbers of about 12,000 others was deleted by an “unauthorised third party.
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Incident: Parks Victoria data breach | 7News
Australian Privacy Breach, 05 July 2023: There’s been a privacy breach on the state government’s new campsite booking system. Personal details of other campers shown to other campers
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Audit: Australian Senate Estimates reveals 435 Chinese-made surveillance devices found at defence sites
Defence Internal Audit Finding 31 May 2023: Australian Senate questioning reveals 435 Chinese-made surveillance devices found at defence sites. Defence initially claimed there was only one device.
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Incident: Isaacs Regional Council Cyber Attack Highlights Risks Local Governments Face | australiancybersecuritymagazine
Australian Local Government Ransomware Attack, 04 April 2023: Isaacs Regional Council Ransomware Attack Highlights Risks Local Governments Face. It is unknown at this stage what information has been accessed.
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Audit: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Information Security Audit 2021-22 reports 324 control weaknesses
West Australian Councils Audit Report 29 March 2023: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Information Security Audit 2021-22 reports 324 control weaknesses. Cyber security concerns as council’s network rack found in staff toilet.
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Audit: Western Australia Auditor General’s State Government Information Systems Audit 2021-22
West Australian State Government Audit Report March 2023: Auditor General’s State Government Information Systems Audit 2021-22 566 control weaknesses 34 significant. Cases: malicious insiders no MFA, outage from an unauthorised device, former employee accessing finance system one month after termination.
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Audit: Queensland Audit Office’s State Entities 2022 reports deficiencies in information systems
Queensland Audit Report 16 March 2023: Queensland Audit Office’s State Entities 2022 reports deficiencies in information systems. Only 33 per cent of departments have an effective system managing information security risks.
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Audit: Victoria audit warns of weak IT controls in council systems | iTnews
Victorian Local Government Audit Report 27 February 2023: Victoria audit reports a significant rise in IT control weaknesses in council systems. Calls for Essential Eight adoption.
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Incident: Black and White Cabs booking service offline after cyber attack | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Cyber Attack February 2023: Black and White Cabs booking service offline after cyber attack. Passengers and drivers have been left waiting as the booking system remains locked days after the breach.
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Incident: Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident | iTnews
UPDATE Australian Cyber Incident December 2022: Fire Rescue Victoria confirms cyber attack from ‘external third party’ as outage continues. Outage could last “three or four days.”
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Incident: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by cyber attack | ABC News Australia
Australian Cyber Attack November 2022: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by a cyber attack. The company says hackers have revealed a sample “of what is believed to be stolen data”
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Incident: APA, Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack | iTnews
Australian Ransomware November 2022: Infrastructure operator APA Group, and agribusiness Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack. Other previously unreported incidents, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and Workskil Australia.
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Incident: Australian strata company SSKB breached | iTnews
Australian Ransomware Attack, 28 October 2022: Gold Coast Australian: Strata management firm SSKB is the latest company to fall victim to a ransomware attack. Attackers’ posted a ransom demand and claimed to have stolen 200GB of data.
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Incident: Singtel-owned IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware | iTWire
Australian Ransomware Attack October 2022: Singtel-owned Australian-based IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware. The attack on Dialog was carried out using the Agenda ransomware that runs only on Windows systems
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Audit: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses
West Australian Audit Report August 2022: Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses. 12 of the 45 entities did not met expectations across all six control categories and 68% of the audit results were below the minimum benchmark.
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Audit: WA Auditor General tables the 2021 Financial Audit Results for Universities and TAFEs
West Australian Audit Report July 2022: Western Australia Auditor General tables the 2021 Financial Audit Results for Universities and TAFEs. OAG identified 124 information systems control weaknesses, a 20% increase 2020, 67% of the weaknesses as rated as moderate.
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Audit: Vic privacy watchdog uncovers third-party infosec risks at four agencies | iTnews
Australian Audit Report July 2022: Victorian privacy watchdog uncovers third-party infosec risks at four agencies. Agencies only partially effective at ensuring that third parties are securing public sector information.
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