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Incident: Australia’s Copyright Agency investigates cyber incident | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 22, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Federal Government, Government Agency, iTnews | 0 |

Australian Copyright Agency Cyber Incident November 2021: Agency investigates cyber incident and notifies 37,000-plus member.

Incident: Service NSW worker corrupt: ICAC | AAP

by Steven Kirby | May 11, 2021 | 09 Access Control, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Government Agency, Insider Threat, Integrity, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, State Government, The Canberra Times | 0 |

Australia Data Insider Access Incident May 2021: A Service NSW worker could face criminal charges involving accessing a restricted database. ICAC said, the agency had “misplaced confidence” in the effectiveness of its controls.

Incident: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jan 27, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Government Agency, Privacy Breach, Regulator and Authority, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.

Incident: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again | The Canberra Times

by Steven Kirby | Oct 28, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Government Agency, Privacy, The Canberra Times, User Error | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach Again October 2020: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again. The identities of Australians stranded overseas have been accidentally exposed for the third time in as many months.

Incident: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Sep 30, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Government Agency, Privacy, The Guardian, User Error | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach. Addressees were mistakenly listed in the ‘to’ field, rather than ‘bcc’, making them visible to other recipients.

NZ Incident: RC plane and drone users’ details leaked by CAA New Zealand | xjet

by Steven Kirby | Sep 30, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Email, Federal Government, Government Agency, New Zealand, Privacy, Regulator and Authority | 0 |

New Zealand Privacy Breach September 2020: RC plane and drone users’ details leaked by CAA New Zealand. CAA New Zealand violation of privacy involving people from around the world who filed complaints with them.

Audit: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Sep 25, 2020 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2020, Federal Government, Government Agency, Risk Management, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Audit Report September 2020: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT. Services Australia did not apply an appropriate framework to manage cyber security risk.

Audit: Australia Post told to improve cyber security practices | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 4, 2019 | Audit Report, Australia, Australian Audit Report 2019, Government Agency, iTnews | 0 |

July 04 2019: Australia Post told to improve cyber security practices. Auditor says risk aren’t being managed “effectively”.

Incident: ACCC blames premature TPG merger rejection reveal on unpatched CMS | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 16, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Data Handling, Federal Government, Government Agency, iTnews, Patch Management, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 16 2019 The Australian Competition and...

NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches | Stuff NZ

by Steven Kirby | Mar 5, 2019 | 🥝 NZ Incidents, Government Agency, New Zealand, Privacy Breach, Stuff.co.nz, Transport and Logistics, Uncategorized | 0 |

Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.

Incident: Cyber-security breach at Federal Parliament prompts security agency investigation | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Feb 8, 2019 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Federal Government, Government Agency, Government Incident, Hacked | 0 |

Computer passwords are reset as Australia’s security agencies investigate a cyber-security breach at Federal Parliament.

Incident: AusTender becomes latest bait for phishers | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Email, Email Phishing, Email Spear Phing and Business Email Compromise (BEC), Federal Government, Government Agency, iTnews, Scam | 0 |

Phishers are targeting would-be tenderers to the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development with an email and fake AusTender landing page.

Incident: Fisheries Qld blames bad update for password ‘fault’ | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jan 14, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Configuration, Government Agency, iTnews, Queensland, State Government | 0 |

Fisheries Queensland has blamed a software bug introduced via an update for an incident that left users of its Fishnet Secure portal exposed over the break.

NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency accused of downplaying a “massive” security breach. USB Drive Lost | Stuff NZ

by Steven Kirby | Jan 3, 2019 | Data Handling, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Government Agency, New Zealand, Privacy Breach, Stuff.co.nz, Transport and Logistics, Uncategorized | 0 |

Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.

Incident: ‘Appalling’ Victorian emergency services data breach to be investigated | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Nov 24, 2018 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Handling, Government Agency, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, State Government, Victoria, Website | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 24 2018 The Victorian state government...

Incident: Tasmanian voters’ details stolen in data breach | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Jul 1, 2018 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Breach, Government Agency, Privacy Breach, State Government, Tasmania | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 01 2018 The details of about 4,000...

Incident: Roseanne’s face appears on BoM site, but hack denied | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Jun 1, 2018 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Federal Government, Government Agency, iTWire, Website Compromise | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 01 2018 The face of disgraced American...

Report: NSW Government agency’s 49-day hack shows need for cyber security beef up: report on 2017 incident | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | May 2, 2018 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incident, Email, Government Agency, Government Incident, Hacked, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Information Security Report: May 2 2018 It took one NSW Government agency 49 days to...

Report: OAIC Quarterly Data Breach Statistics Report: January 2018 – March 2018

by Steven Kirby | Apr 11, 2018 | APP Australian Privacy Principles, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Reports, Breach Notification, Federal Government, Government Agency, OAIC Data Breach Report | 0 |

Australian Information Security Report: April 11 2018 The Office of the Australian Information...

Incident: Queensland and Australian govt sites hijacked by crypto coin miner | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 12, 2018 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Cryptocurrency - Bitcoin, Federal Government, Government Agency, Hacked, iTnews, Local Government, Queensland, South Australia, State Government, Victoria, Website Compromise | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: February 12 2018 The Queensland...

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