Australian University Incident May 2021. UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack. A number of PCs and laptops have been disabled, while Citrix VA is now unavailable.
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Australian Telco Outage April 2021: Vodafone Australia hit by nationwide 4G outage. Mobile data, voice services impacted for 10 hours.
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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 Ransomware Attack June 2020: Fisher & Paykel Appliances struck by Nefilim ransomware. Manufacturing and distribution facilities shut down.
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Australian Privacy Breach April 2020: Confidential details of entire Western Australian Police Force accessed in ‘startling’ audit breach, CCC finds. An investigation has revealed a CCC staff member accessed and downloaded highly confidential information about all of the state’s 8,800 police officers.
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Australian Ransomware Attack April 2020: MyBudget blames ransomware hack for system outage affecting thousands of customers, was likely compromised as it quickly moved its employees onto work-from-home arrangements amid coronavirus.
Read MoreFallout from SAN failures continues. The Australian Taxation Office has been asked to produce a “full list” of all the IT system outages it has experienced over the past 18 months for senate scrutiny. Source: ATO asked to reveal...
Read MoreService disruption enters second day. Australia Post’s online services have been intermittently unavailable since late Sunday evening, preventing business customers from being able to label, ship, and track items. Source:...
Read MoreAustralia Post’s parcel service has been thrown into chaos after the shipping and tracking service failed on Monday. Source: Australia Post’s online parcel system is down
Read MoreNAB business customers say they have been unable to process payroll or perform other routine banking tasks due to an all-day outage of the NAB Connect business banking internet service. Source: NAB Connect suffers all-day outage...
Read MoreThousands of airline passengers face delays, including families heading out of Sydney for the start of the school holidays, following an air traffic control system failure. Source: Sydney domestic and international flights...
Read MoreAustralia’s Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security has taken a positive stance on the 2016 Census debacle that was labelled a ‘confluence of failure’, calling it the wake-up call the nation...
Read MoreMelbourne’s train operator Metro Trains has been fined $1.2 million over the IT outage that shut down the commuter network during rush hour in mid-July. Source: Metro Trains fined $1.2m over IT fail that downed network...
Read MoreBankwest suffered an IT system outage that affected customer-facing payment operations as well as undisclosed systems used by its branches for about four hours on Friday morning. Source: Bankwest suffers IT outage –...
Read MoreTelstra suffered a domain name server (DNS) outage in NSW with a wide range of users reporting connectivity issues beginning around 5am. Update, 9.57am: Telstra said the DNS issue has been resolved. Source: Telstra’s NSW...
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Highly active cyber extortion group claims hack of Australian HBS Group, data to be published within seven days. • Mon, 27 Jul 2026 • … [...]
The maker of unmanned guidance hardware supplied to Ukraine says some systems have been taken offline, and the incident is under investigation. • Mon, … [...]
The Deadlock ransomware gang is claiming to have stolen company data from an Aussie company with projects throughout the African nation of Burkina … [...]
In brief As many as 4.8 million Origin Energy customers could be affected by a cyber attack that exposed personal data. • Experts have warned the fallout … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed that unauthorised access to customer information has occurred, marking what is believed to be the largest publicly known … [...]
What should I do? It should not take the emergence of frontier AI models to motivate a revisit of your organisation’s current cyber posture. It’s … [...]
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released its findings after investigating last year’s Qantas cyber attack. • Thu, 16 … [...]
Insider security risks: a frequently overlooked threat Cyber security and privacy controls are usually thought of as ways to protect from external … [...]
The AICD, in partnership with the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at the University of Technology Sydney, has updated its key artificial … [...]
Energy company Origin has confirmed there has been unauthorised access to and disclosure of some customers' data. In a statement released via the ASX, … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed the personal information of some of its customers has been stolen in a suspected cyber hack. The energy giant said in a … [...]
The Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre has warned that criminals are using artificial intelligence to create highly convincing investment … [...]