Category: APP Australian Privacy Principles

UNSW has returned to the jobs market to find a chief information security officer after delaying the recruitment process last year due to the … Read more »

New Zealand Data Breach, January 10 2021 New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’ The bank issued a statement shortly … Read more »

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which yesterday disclosed it had suffered a data breach, now says it was caught up in a hack of enterprise data … Read more »

This data is based on reports provided to the ACCC by web form and over the phone. The data is published on a monthly basis. Our quality assurance … Read more »

Remote access scams try to convince you that you have a computer or internet problem and that you need to buy new software to fix the problem. How … Read more »

How do you look after your cyber security when your toaster is connected to the WiFi? Technology experts predicts there will be more than 41 billion connected IoT devices. IDCARE’s Head of Identity Security Operations, Moises Sanabria chats to ABC Queensland’s Ross Kay about what has been happening in this space. Read more »

Australians are on high alert about the threat of cyber attacks following Prime Minister Scott Morrison's warning in June that Australia was targeted … Read more »

Pitched as necessary for our own safety, Scott Morrison’s Data Availability and Transparency Bill has experts reeling over the sheer lack of … Read more »

Woolworths says there are security risks - and no benefits to be had - from disclosing the names of all technology and data partners and suppliers … Read more »

The Australian Digital Health Agency, overseer of the My Health Record, has expressed concern at the number and type of "potential" data breaches it … Read more »

Service NSW experienced an “unexpected” two-hour outage of its app on Thursday afternoon that left people unable to log their visits to hospitality … Read more »

A social engineering campaign featuring phishing emails and scam calls that impersonate the Australian Cyber Security Centre is underway at the … Read more »

Amazon Web Services has landed former longtime Australian Signals Directorate official and public cloud certifier Melissa Osborne as its new head of … Read more »

The Australian Cyber Security Centre within the Australian Signals Directorate produces the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM). … Read more »

The Australian National University says it has been able to help other unnamed universities "fend off attacks" using new capabilities it set up in … Read more »

QUT alone has been hit by 600 incidents in the past 12 months, including an attack from Iran’s cyber warfare group known by the online alias Charming … Read more »

On 14 December 2020, the ACSC issued an alert relating to the SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise. This was in response to an announcement by … Read more »

The Auditor-General has suggested ministers, their staff and bureaucrats should be banned from using encrypted communications platforms like WhatsApp … Read more »

On Christmas Eve 2003, one of the nation’s largest bank heists occurred when $150 million was stolen without the robbers ever setting a foot in the … Read more »

Australian Malware Breach, December 24 2020 NSW Health, Rio Tinto, Serco named as victims of massive global SolarWinds hack attack NSW Health appears … Read more »