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Australian Education Access Breach, 24 June 2024: Perth, Western Australia – Year 11 students expelled for hacking schools IT systems for years undetected. Students used the teacher’s details to access their grades and other students’ personal information.
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Australian Medical Centre Breach, 04 April 2024: Diabetes WA has disclosed a data breach affecting people who engaged with its telehealth service. Breach via one compromised Diabetes WA user account.
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Australian Retail Breach, 09 January 2024: Australian retailer The Iconic, promises refunds after a spate of fraudulent transactions on customer accounts. While not directly hacked, the unauthorised third party used a technique known as ‘credential stuffing’.
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Australian Energy Utility Incident October 2022. Electricity and gas retailer EnergyAustralia has disclosed a breach of its MyAccount platform. The company says affected 323 small business and residential customers and was automated through use of a password bot.
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Australian Retail Cyber Incident July 2022: New security alert issued to all Woolworths Everyday Rewards members. Fraudsters have likely obtained members’ login credentials and account details from online scams or other sources.
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Australian Cyber Attack July 2022: Deakin University reveals privacy breach of 47,000 students’ details. Subset targeted with smish sent via officially-used SMS channel
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A Sydney man has been charged by AFP for alleged involvement in WickedGen.com.
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Early Warning Network, a NSW company providing weather, fire and other alerts to councils and others, had a login compromised and used by an unknown party to make threats about customer security.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 18 2018 The National Health Practitioner...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...
Read MoreThe message isn’t getting through: almost nine out of ten people use the same password with multiple accounts. Source: Most people have lax password habits, says ME Bank
Read MoreThe laws were sold as a further measure against child exploitation material, but the Greens worry they are being expanded to cover offences such as fraud. Source: Computer password laws being ‘sneaked’ through SA...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 24 2017 Regional internet registry for...
Read More“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different” – Bruce Schneier
Read MoreThe Australian Signals Directorate still wants people to generate ridiculous passwords that are very insecure. Source: Our spy agencies know less about cybersecurity than the Daily Mail
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: February 3 2017 The Australian Nuclear Science...
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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 … [...]
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 … [...]
Origin Energy, Australia's biggest power provider, is investigating a suspected cyber attack affecting up to 5 million Australians. A hacker calling himself John Doe claims to have stolen personal data [...]
Origin Energy says an investigation has been launched into a potential hacking incident with reports two million customers could have been affected. The company has 4.8 million customers. The nation's [...]
One of Australia's largest energy companies, Origin Energy, says it is investigating a security breach that "may have" affected customer data. "Origin … [...]
Origin Energy is investigating a potential cyber hack that may have compromised the data of some customers. In a statement, the major energy provider … [...]