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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Australian delivery drivers are being targeted in a sophisticated phishing scam in what the transport workers union says is already a vulnerable industry. #ABCNewsQld by Heloise Vyas Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read [...]
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