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Incident: Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Dec 16, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, iTnews, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

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.”

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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”

Audit: Western Australia Auditor General’s Local Government Financial Audit 2020-21 reports 358 information system control weaknesses

by Steven Kirby | Aug 17, 2022 | 18.02.01 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.

Audit: WA Auditor General tables the 2021 Financial Audit Results for Universities and TAFEs

by Steven Kirby | Jul 24, 2022 | 18.02.01 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.

Audit: Vic privacy watchdog uncovers third-party infosec risks at four agencies | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 22, 2022 | 18.02.01 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.

Incident: 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.

Audit: Queensland Audit Office Education 2021 Report finds “all need to strengthen their security”

by Steven Kirby | Jun 16, 2022 | 18.02.01 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.

Incident: NSW digital driver’s licences ‘easily forgeable’ | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 18, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Integrity, iTnews, Mobile App, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Cyber Security Failure May 2022: NSW digital driver’s licences ‘easily forgeable’. Underage people allegedly go drinking with fake IDs.

Incident: TfNSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 4, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, iTnews, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, State Government, Transport and Logistics | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach May 2022: Transport for NSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months. An online application used by vehicle examiners to conduct roadworthiness inspections in NSW has been struck by a cyber attack.

Incident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia

by Steven Kirby | Feb 15, 2022 | 08.02.03 Handling of assets, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Daily Mail Australia, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, State Government, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach February 2022: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations. Address’s included Defence sites, bombing ranges and domestic violence shelters.

Incident: Charges over Victoria Police data breach | 7News

by Steven Kirby | Dec 21, 2021 | 07.01.02 Terms and conditions of employment, 07.02.02 Information security awareness, education and training, 12.04 Logging and monitoring, 7 NEWS Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Insider Threat, Law & Legal, Policing and Law Enforcement, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Insider Threat December 2021: Charges over Victoria Police data breach. Accessing police information, disclosing police information, and intentionally communicating protected information.

Incident: NSW government casual recruiter suffers ransomware hit | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Dec 17, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Incident December 2021: NSW government casual recruiter Finite Recruitment suffers Conti ransomware hit. Attackers claimed to have stolen more than 300GB of financial and personal data.

Incident: Cyber criminals force shutdown of NSW budgeting system | Australian Financial Review (AFR)

by Steven Kirby | Dec 16, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, Australian Financial Review (AFR), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, New South Wales, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, State Government | 0 |

Australian Cyber Security Incident December 2021: Cyber criminals force shutdown of New South Wales’ Prime/Oracle based budgeting system. The problem is part of a worldwide vulnerability identified in Log4j.

Incident: Personal details of up to 80,000 SA government employees accessed in cyber attack | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Dec 10, 2021 | 12.02 Protection from Malware, ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Integrity, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, South Australia, State Government, Utilities | 0 |

Australian State Government Ransomware Attack December 2021: Up to 80000 South Australian Government employee data stolen in Frontier Software ransomware attack. Data accessed include names, dates of birth, tax file numbers, addresses, bank account details and pay details (remuneration, tax withheld, superannuation contributions).

Incident: NSW iVote fails during local council elections | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Dec 6, 2021 | 12.01.03 Capacity management, 17 Information security aspects of business continuity management, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Voting Outage December 2021: New South Wales’ iVote online voting system failed on Saturday during the state’s local government elections. Update: NSWEC finds iVote system failure may have impacted three local election outcomes.

Audit: Queensland Audit Office (QAO) Water 2021 Report finds one breach and significant control weaknesses | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Nov 11, 2021 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian Audit Report 2021, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, Queensland, State Government, Utilities | 0 |

Australian Utility Audit Report November 2021: Queensland Audit Office (QAO) Water 2021 Report finds one breach and significant control weaknesses in the security of information systems. Sunwater has acknowledge it was the organisation reported breached in the report.

Incident: Queensland water supplier Sunwater targeted by hackers in months-long undetected cyber security breach | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Nov 11, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Critical Infrastructure, Hacked, Integrity, Queensland, State Government, Utilities | 0 |

Australian Water Utility Hacked November 2021: Queensland water supplier Sunwater targeted by hackers in months-long undetected cyber security breach. A Queensland Audit Office report found “threat actors” had targeted an older, more vulnerable version of the system.

Incident: SA Ambulance Service patients’ personal information stolen from consultancy firm | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Nov 10, 2021 | 08.03 Media handling, ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, South Australia, State Government | 0 |

Australian Health Services Privacy Breach November 2021: South Australia Ambulance Service patients’ personal information stolen from consultancy firm. The personal details of 28,000 patients have been lost on a stolen a storage device.

Audit: None of NSW’s lead cluster agencies have implemented all Essential Eight controls | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Nov 1, 2021 | 18.02.01 Independent review of information security, ASD Essential Eight, Australian Audit Report 2021, Compliance, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Audit Failure November 2021: None of New South Wales lead cluster agencies have implemented all Essential Eight controls – Premier and Cabinet, Communities and Justice, Customer Service, Education, Planning, Regional NSW, Health, Treasury, and Transport.

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