Category: Availability
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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Incident: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack | MSN
Australian Jail Cyber Attack July 2022: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack. Hackers take control of the G4S operated jail’s online network.
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Audit: West Australian Local Government Information Systems Audit Report “a significant area of concern”
Australian Audit Report June 2022: West Australian Local Government Information Systems Audit Report “a significant area of concern”. None of the 12 entities where we performed capability maturity assessments met benchmark.
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Audit: Queensland Audit Office Education 2021 Report finds “all need to strengthen their security”
Australian Audit Report June 2022: Queensland Audit Office Education 2021 Report finds “all need to strengthen their security”. Deficiencies identified with user and privilege access management, audit log and user activity monitoring.
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Audit: Cyber basics still beyond fed gov as Essential Eight mandate looms | iTnews
Australian National Audit Office Report June 2022: Cyber basics still beyond fed gov as Essential Eight mandate looms. Audit finds most controls “still significantly below” requirement.
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Incident: Pivotal Homes reports ‘ransomware attack’ weeks before liquidation | news.com.au
Australian Ransomware Attack June 2022: Queensland based builder Pivotal Homes reports ‘ransomware attack’ weeks before liquidation. Up to six months of records have reportedly been lost.
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