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Incident: Defence Housing Australia investigates third-party provider hack exposure | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 7, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Building and Construction, Defence and Military, Federal Government, iTnews, Managed Services Provider | 0 |

Australian Defence Agencies Third-Party Breach, 07 September 2023. Defence Housing Australia and Department of Veterans’ Affairs investigates third-party provider hack exposure. The breached service provider was not identified.

Audit: Australian Senate Estimates reveals 435 Chinese-made surveillance devices found at defence sites

by Steven Kirby | May 31, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australia, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Confidentiality, Defence and Military, Federal Government, Integrity, Internal Audit, YouTube | 0 |

Defence Internal Audit Finding 31 May 2023: Australian Senate questioning reveals 435 Chinese-made surveillance devices found at defence sites. Defence initially claimed there was only one device.

Incident: Australian National Maritime Museum hit by alleged ‘trusted insider’ attack | iTNews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 6, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Cyber Fraud, Federal Government, Insider Threat, Integrity, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Insider Cyber Fraud, 06 March 2023: Australian National Maritime Museum hit by alleged ‘trusted insider’ attack. Contractor allegedly accessed accounting system, changing bank account details stored to his own.

Incident: Ransomware attack on Dialog also took down defence app ForceNet | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Oct 31, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Defence and Military, Federal Government, iTWire, Managed Services Provider | 0 |

Australian Defence Ransomware Incident October 2022: Ransomware attack on Dialog also took down Australian Department of Defence service ForceNet. An Agenda ransomware attack hit a communications platform used by the Department of Defence.

Audit: Cyber basics still beyond fed gov as Essential Eight mandate looms | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 10, 2022 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australia, Australian Audit Report 2022, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Federal Government, Integrity | 0 |

Australian National Audit Office Report June 2022: Cyber basics still beyond fed gov as Essential Eight mandate looms. Audit finds most controls “still significantly below” requirement.

Incident: Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | May 30, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Email, Federal Government | 0 |

Australian Data Breach May 2022: Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols. The contractor said to have sent classified documents to his personal email address was allowed to work in another federal government department after the cybersecurity breach.

Incident: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Dec 17, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Federal Government, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, iTnews, Ransomware, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Government Payroll Outage December 2021: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack. Linked to ransomware attack on major payroll software provider Frontier Software last month.

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.

Audit: Fed govt cyber resilience unchanged since last year: auditor | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 10, 2021 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2021, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Federal Government, Integrity, iTnews | 0 |

Australian Audit Fail June 2021: Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) finds cyber resilience unchanged since last year. Only one of 18 agency audited hits Essential Eight baseline.

Incident: Double blow: new data breach hits stranded Australians as Emirates suspends flights out of UK | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Jan 29, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Privacy, Privacy Breach, The Guardian | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach January 2021: Double blow: new data breach hits stranded Australians as Emirates suspends flights out of UK. Government admits inadvertently emailing revealing sensitive details of passengers booked on a repatriation flight from London

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: Fed agencies cop mass fail in core systems cyber review | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 29, 2020 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2020, Federal Government, iTnews | 0 |

Australian Audit Report May 2020: Australian federal agencies cop mass fail in core systems cyber review. Just one agency gets ‘essential eight’ tick for financial, HR systems.

Incident: Federal court data breach sees names of protection visa applicants made public | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Mar 31, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Federal Government, Law & Legal, Privacy Breach, Website | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach February 2020: Federal court data breach sees names of protection visa applicants made public on the website of the Federal Court putting asylum seekers at risk

Incident: Updated Citrix Bug – Fears private details of Australian Defence Force members compromised in database hack | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Mar 4, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Defence and Military, Federal Government, Hacked, Privacy | 0 |

Australian Cyber Attack March 2020: A highly sensitive military database containing the personal details of tens of thousands of Australian Defence Force (ADF) members was shut down for 10 days due to fears it had been hacked.

Incident: Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office accidentally leaks talking points for MPs to journalists | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Oct 7, 2019 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Insider Threat, Politician and Politics | 0 |

Australian Email Incident 07 October 2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office accidentally leaks talking points for MPs to journalists

Incident: Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation investigating privacy breach after financial documents sent to ABC producer | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Oct 2, 2019 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Banking and Finance, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Insider Threat | 0 |

Australian Unintended Disclosure Incident 02 October 2019: Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation investigating privacy breach after financial documents sent to ABC producer.

NZ Incident: Data breach after lax New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) security | Stuff.co.nz

by Steven Kirby | Sep 9, 2019 | API Security, Configuration, Data Breach, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Federal Government, New Zealand, Stuff.co.nz | 0 |

Privacy Breach 09 September 2019: The NZ Transport Agency admits to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open.

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