Incident: Victorian man arrested over multiple DDoS attacks | iTnews
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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Category: Vulnerability
Incident: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details | The Guardian
Australian App Privacy Breach October 2019: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details, users were able to see other customers’ data, including names, dates of birth and mobile numbers.
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Incident: Brisbane based loss assessor Australian Accident Management Commercial (AAMC) hit by cyber breach | insuranceNEWS.com.au
Australian Email Incident 07 October 2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office accidentally leaks talking points for MPs to journalists
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Incident: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software | SMH
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...
Read MoreAustralian companies face an increasing threat from domestic DDoS instigators | CSO
Australian organisations are being hit by over 450 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks every day and fully a quarter of them are coming from domestic sources, analysts have warned as figures show DDoS attacks making a...
Read MoreAustralian military drone supplier warns of ‘likely’ Chinese cyber backdoor in DJI quadcopters | SBS News
The Australian Defence Force has resumed its use of Chinese-made DJI drones after a 2-week suspension, but defence minister Marise Payne suggested they may now be relegated to ‘unclassified’ missions. Source:...
Read MoreThousands of Australians could have pacemakers being recalled in US over hacking risk | ABC News (Australia)
In Australia the Therapeutic Goods Administration said it was aware of the recall and was reviewing information “to determine what, if any, action is required in Australia and will take into account the conclusions from...
Read MoreMacGibbon warns of ‘Jenga tower’ of federal legacy cyber risk | The Mandarin
Old software that needs patching is keeping Australia’s cybertsar Alastair MacGibbon awake at night. He wants agencies to start moving to more resilient platforms before the next Wannacry floors critical infrastructure....
Read MoreCheap CCTV cameras broadcasting Australians’ private lives online | 9 News
Video: Cheap and poorly installed CCTV systems are broadcasting Australians’ private lives online. Source: Cheap CCTV cameras broadcasting Australians’ private lives online
Read MoreAussie businesses targeted in spate of router attacks | iTnews
Disable SNMP read/write and Cisco smart install. Attackers are targeting Australian organisations with routers and switches exposed to the internet to steal configuration files and infiltrate their networks, the Australian Cyber...
Read MoreAussie researchers find easy way to steal sensitive data via USB | iTnews
Australian researchers are warning that USB interfaces can be easily used to silently capture sensitive user data such as keystrokes from computers by monitoring electric crosstalk leakage. Be careful what you plug into your...
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Incident: The Medicare machine: patient details of ‘any Australian’ for sale on darknet | The Guardian
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 4 2017 A darknet trader is illegally...
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Australian InfoSec and Cyber News
- Australian health sector does not have 'cybersecurity problem', says insurer April 7, 2020Australia’s healthcare sector does not have a “broader cybersecurity problem” despite consistently reporting higher numbers of data breaches than …
- ASD says it’s mounted offensive operations against cybercrime infrastructure April 7, 2020The Australian Signals Directorate has put its offensive capability boot into a substantial escalation of cyber scams proliferating off the back of …
- Scammers targeting superannuation in COVID-19 crisis April 5, 2020Scammers are now trying to exploit Australians financially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis with new superannuation scams being reported to Scamwatch …
- ASD issues warning over cheap and nasty video conferencing April 2, 2020But carefully doesn't mention Zoom by name.
- iTWire - Overcoming objections to using multi-factor authentication April 1, 2020GUEST OPINION Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been an effective security technique for years, yet many small and mid-sized Australian …
- Cyber crime threat advice updated over coronavirus scams March 26, 2020One email purports to be from the Australian government and is titled "INSIGHTS ON CORONAVIRUS", while others have read "Latest corona-virus updates" …
- Aussie council body argues access to metadata would help thwart illegal activity | ZDNet March 26, 2020Arguing access to metadata would help in prosecuting those illegally dumping garbage or removing trees. The Australian Local Government Association …
- Over 1,000 private entities are using Australia's document verification service | ZDNet March 25, 2020The verification service matches submitted identity documentation with that provided to the federal government by state and territory governments. The …
- ANZ tries to preserve corporate VPN bandwidth for frontline use March 25, 2020ANZ Banking Group CEO Shayne Elliott has advised some of its internal users to “not use certain systems” including its corporate remote access VPN to …
- Incident: Melbourne IT services firm Geidi hit by REvil ransomware | iTWire - Australian Information Security Awareness and Advisory March 24, 2020Australian Ransomware Attack March 2020: Melbourne IT services firm Geidi hit by REvil ransomware The group behind the REvil Windows ransomware has …