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Posted by Steven Kirby | Jul 8, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |
Incident: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | May 25, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Northern Territory, Privacy Breach, State Government | 0 |
Australian Medical Data Handling Incident 25 May 2023: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach. NT Health says the onus is on individuals to check if the privacy of their medical records has been breached.
Read MoreIncident: Drug and alcohol tests of graduate paramedics revealed in Ambulance Victoria data breach | The Guardian
by Steven Kirby | May 12, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, State Government, The Guardian, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Medical Data Handling Incident 04 May 2023. Drug and alcohol tests of graduate paramedics revealed in Ambulance Victoria data breach. The documents had become accessible to all employees on Ambulance Victoria’s internal intranet.
Read MoreIncident: Woman charged with accessing private data on NSW gov computer | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Apr 13, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Government Agency, iTnews, New South Wales, Police and Law Enforcement, State Government | 0 |
Australian Unauthorised Access Incident, 13 April 2023: Woman charged with accessing private data on NSW gov computer. Personal data which was shared with others for the purpose of criminal activity (kidnapping).
Read MoreIncident: Bug briefly exposed Service NSW data to other users | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Apr 4, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Government Agency, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |
Australian State Government Cyber Incident, 04 April 2023: Bug briefly exposed Service NSW data to other users. ‘Technical issue’ may have exposed data of 3700 customers.
Read MoreIncident: Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Apr 4, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Education and Training, South Australia, State Government | 0 |
Australian Education Data Breach, 4 April 2023. Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years. SA Police “found” USB containing credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses.
Read MoreIncident: Tasmanians affected by security breach of third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Mar 31, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, SaaS - Software as a Service, State Government, Tasmania, Third Party Risk | 0 |
Updated Australian State Government Data Breach, 31 March 2023: Tasmanians affected by security breach of third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere. Tasmanian government has come under fire for providing a lack of detail.
Read MoreAudit: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Information Security Audit 2021-22 reports 324 control weaknesses
by Steven Kirby | Mar 29, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, Local Government, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |
West Australian Councils Audit Report 29 March 2023: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Information Security Audit 2021-22 reports 324 control weaknesses. Cyber security concerns as council’s network rack found in staff toilet.
Read MoreAudit: Western Australia Auditor General’s State Government Information Systems Audit 2021-22
by Steven Kirby | Mar 22, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |
West Australian State Government Audit Report March 2023: Auditor General’s State Government Information Systems Audit 2021-22 566 control weaknesses 34 significant. Cases: malicious insiders no MFA, outage from an unauthorised device, former employee accessing finance system one month after termination.
Read MoreIncident: Health worker sacked over ‘serious breach’ of patients’ privacy as ACT government investigates data misuse | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Mar 22, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Insider Threat, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, State Government | 0 |
Australian Health Privacy Breach, 22 March 2023: Health worker sacked over ‘serious breach’ of patients’ privacy as ACT government investigates data misuse. Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner.
Read MoreAudit: Queensland Audit Office’s State Entities 2022 reports deficiencies in information systems
by Steven Kirby | Mar 16, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, Queensland, State Government | 0 |
Queensland Audit Report 16 March 2023: Queensland Audit Office’s State Entities 2022 reports deficiencies in information systems. Only 33 per cent of departments have an effective system managing information security risks.
Read MoreIncident: 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.
Read MoreAudit: Victoria audit warns of weak IT controls in council systems | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Feb 27, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, iTnews, Local Government, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
Victorian Local Government Audit Report 27 February 2023: Victoria audit reports a significant rise in IT control weaknesses in council systems. Calls for Essential Eight adoption.
Read MoreIncident: Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Dec 16, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, iTnews, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
UPDATE Australian Cyber Incident December 2022: Fire Rescue Victoria confirms cyber attack from ‘external third party’ as outage continues. Outage could last “three or four days.”
Read MoreIncident: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry | ABC News Australia
by Steven Kirby | Dec 15, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Insider Threat, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, Unauthorised Access, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Privacy Incident December 2022: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, and harass women prompting calls for an inquiry. In the past five years, there have been complaints against 178 police for misusing LEAP.
Read MoreIncident: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by cyber attack | ABC News Australia
by Steven Kirby | Nov 5, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, Managed Services Provider, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Cyber Attack November 2022: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by a cyber attack. The company says hackers have revealed a sample “of what is believed to be stolen data”
Read MoreAudit: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses
by Steven Kirby | Aug 17, 2022 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2022, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |
West Australian Audit Report August 2022: Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses. 12 of the 45 entities did not met expectations across all six control categories and 68% of the audit results were below the minimum benchmark.
Read MoreAudit: WA Auditor General tables the 2021 Financial Audit Results for Universities and TAFEs
by Steven Kirby | Jul 24, 2022 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2022, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |
West Australian Audit Report July 2022: Western Australia Auditor General tables the 2021 Financial Audit Results for Universities and TAFEs. OAG identified 124 information systems control weaknesses, a 20% increase 2020, 67% of the weaknesses as rated as moderate.
Read MoreAudit: Vic privacy watchdog uncovers third-party infosec risks at four agencies | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Jul 22, 2022 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2022, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, iTnews, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Audit Report July 2022: Victorian privacy watchdog uncovers third-party infosec risks at four agencies. Agencies only partially effective at ensuring that third parties are securing public sector information.
Read MoreIncident: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack | MSN
by Steven Kirby | Jul 7, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Hacked, Integrity, iTnews, MSN Australia, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, Victoria | 0 |
Australian Jail Cyber Attack July 2022: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack. Hackers take control of the G4S operated jail’s online network.
Read MoreAudit: Queensland Audit Office Education 2021 Report finds “all need to strengthen their security”
by Steven Kirby | Jun 16, 2022 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2022, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, kirbyIDau News, Queensland, State Government | 0 |
Australian Audit Report June 2022: Queensland Audit Office Education 2021 Report finds “all need to strengthen their security”. Deficiencies identified with user and privilege access management, audit log and user activity monitoring.
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