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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.

ATO not compliant with cyber security standards due to IT outages: Chris Jordan | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Oct 31, 2017 | Australia, Business Continuity, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

The Australian Taxation Office is still not compliant with mandatory cyber security standards because of its repeated IT outages, Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan says. Source: ATO not compliant with cyber security standards due to...

ATO asked to reveal 1.5-year log of IT outages | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 28, 2017 | Australia, Business Continuity, Federal Government, iTnews, Outage | 0 |

Fallout from SAN failures continues. The Australian Taxation Office has been asked to produce a “full list” of all the IT system outages it has experienced over the past 18 months for senate scrutiny. Source: ATO asked to reveal...

ATO begins testing DTA’s digital identity platform | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 6, 2017 | Australia, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Identity Management, iTnews | 0 |

The Australian Taxation Office has started testing the Digital Transformation Agency’s new whole-of-government digital identity platform, Govpass. Source: ATO begins testing DTA’s digital identity platform –...

Australian Government cyber war games result mimics resilience audit | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 29, 2017 | Australia, Cyber Resilience, Cybersecurity, Cyberwar Games and Table-top Exercises, CyberWarfare, Federal Government, iTnews | 0 |

The Department of Human Services has come out on top in Canberra’s inaugural cyber war games, a result that mimics the findings of the now infamous cyber resilience audit of the federal government’s three biggest agencies....

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

ATO not compliant with cyber security standards due to IT outages: Chris Jordan | SMH

ATO asked to reveal 1.5-year log of IT outages | iTnews

ATO begins testing DTA’s digital identity platform | iTnews

Australian Government cyber war games result mimics resilience audit | iTnews

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