Category: Federal Government

Australian InfoSec and Cyber News

• Mining at high risk of cyber security threats - Australian Mining September 26, 2020
  A new survey has found that many Australian mining businesses are unprepared for and are failing to put appropriate measures in place to prevent …
• Two arrested over large-scale SMS phishing scam September 26, 2020
  Two Sydney men have been arrested over their alleged involvement in a large-scale SMS phishing scam that targeted the personal and financial …
• NAB crowdsources cyber security with bug bounty program September 26, 2020
  The National Australia Bank on Friday launched a bug bounty program in partnership with crowdsourced cyber security platform Bugcrowd to strengthen …
• Tens of thousands of NSW driver's licences exposed online in major data breach September 25, 2020
  The source of the breach is yet to be made public with calls for the responsible agency to own up. Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 38sec
• Draft legislation proposed by Federal Government would allow your personal data to be shared between government agencies September 25, 2020
  If it sometimes seems like different arms of the government don't talk to each other, it might be because they can't. There are a raft of laws …
• Only 1 in 5 Australians Say They Actually Read Their Privacy Policies September 25, 2020
  This privacy policy outlines our commitment to provide quality services and our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal …
• Incident: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students' details | iTnews - Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory September 23, 2020
  Australian Privacy Exposure: September 21 2020 Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details Security settings allowed broad …
• iTWire - Australian IT leaders spend up on security as global weekly tech spend explodes to US15 billion September 23, 2020
  An extra US15 billion a week has been spent globally on technology by IT leaders to enable safe and secure home working during the first wave of the …
• ACSC details "copy-paste compromise" attacks September 23, 2020
  The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has provided more details of the cyber attack in June called out by Prime Minister Scott Morisson that …
• Can the Cyber Taskforce achieve its goals? September 23, 2020
  Basic governance and risk management fundamentals and root causes, beyond the Taskforce’s remit, need to be addressed. The new Cyber Taskforce …
• OAIC publishes PIA guidance for agencies September 23, 2020
  The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has published guidance detailing when government agencies must complete a privacy impact …
• Why you shouldn't post a picture of a boarding pass on social media September 23, 2020
  Security experts are repeating warnings to keep pictures of documents with personal information and barcodes — such as boarding passes and tickets — …
• iTWire - How do you securely provide access to your data for the people who ought to access it? September 22, 2020
  iTWire asked a number of IT security executives for their best thoughts on secure data access in this unusual distributed world we're in. Here's what …
• Anglicare Sydney says 17GB data transmitted to 'remote location' after attack September 21, 2020
  Anglicare Sydney has revealed 17GB of its data was transmitted “to a remote location” after a ransomware attack but claims “there is no current …
• Researchers show successful myGovID code replay attack September 21, 2020
  Two security researchers are warning Australians not to use myGovID as they say the login system contains an implementation flaw that could lead to …