Australian Data Handling Incident December 2022: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online. Names, numbers and addresses of some unlisted customers released online.
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Australia Telstra Provider Breach May 2021: Telstra service provider hit by cyber attack as hackers claim SIM card information stolen. Hackers have claimed they have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards after a cyber attack against an Australian telecom firm
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Australian Telco Outage April 2021: Vodafone Australia hit by nationwide 4G outage. Mobile data, voice services impacted for 10 hours.
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Australian Telco Outage August 2020: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure, walks back on earlier claims of denial-of-service attack.
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Australian Medical Privacy Breach July 2020: ‘Unforgivable’: Privacy breach exposed sensitive details of WA’s virus fight on a public website. The breach also impacted St John Ambulance, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Department of Justice. The leak was traced back to Vodafone pager service.
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Australian DDoS Attack Arrest October 2019: Victorian man arrested over multiple DDoS attacks against a telecommunications business and a large shopping complex.
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Australian Privacy Breach Incident October 2019: Tens of thousands of Australian Optus customers have had their mobile phone numbers and addresses mistakenly published online.
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Google has suspended an email alerting system in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case, the company said on Friday.
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Early Warning Network, a NSW company providing weather, fire and other alerts to councils and others, had a login compromised and used by an unknown party to make threats about customer security.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 27 2018 Telstra customer stumbles across...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 31 2018 An onslaught of 1800 suspected...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...
Read MoreThe federal government has promised to introduce a national ‘consumer data right’ into law allowing consumers open access to their banking, energy, and telco data next year. Source: New laws will give Aussies access...
Read MoreTwo major Australian brands, Telstra and Commonwealth Bank, have been targeted by scammers in a bid to dupe users into downloading malware to their computers or giving up credit card details. Source: Telstra, CommBank targeted...
Read MoreThe Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined ISP TPG Internet $360,000 over the violation of the Spam Act 2003. Source: iTWire – ACMA hits TPG with $360,000 fine over spam
Read MoreDon’t click “View my bill” if you receive these emails from Telstra or EnergyAustralia. Source: Fake Telstra and EnergyAustralia email bills spread banking trojans – CSO | The Resource for Data Security...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 24 2017 Regional internet registry for...
Read MoreAustralia’s main telecommunications providers appear to be mostly wary of commenting on the security reforms for the industry which were passed by parliament last week. Source: iTWire – Top Australian telcos mostly...
Read MoreThe Australian parliament has officially given the stamp of approval to reforms that force the country’s telcos to inform the government of any changes they plan to make to their networks as well as their procurement...
Read MoreFollowing an international search, Telstra has landed on Craig Hancock – currently the executive director of customer service management for the telco – as its new global chief information security officer. Source:...
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