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Australian Audit Failure June 13 2023: NSW’s local government audit found that 47% of councils did not have a cyber security plan. IT policies and procedures were outdated or not in place at 43 councils.
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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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Australian Audit Fail May 2021<: Dozens of NSW councils still without basic cyber security controls, audit finds. Poor management of cyber security at 58 of the state’s 128 local councils, nine county councils and 13 joint organisations.
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Australian Audit Report November 2020. Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems. Auditor finds at least seven agencies missing plans.
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Australian Audit Report October 2020: New South Wales government blasted for failing councils on cyber security. Audit “complete lack” of support for IT security.
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Australian Audit Report June 2020: NSW unis taken to task over poor cyber stance. Institutions still without cyber risk policies, audit finds.
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JUNE 12 2019 Universities across NSW are exposed to cyber attacks due to significant deficiencies in IT internal controls, an audit has found.
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The Albanese government will introduce a new myGov service allowing Australians to block, unblock, and monitor the use of eligible identity documents … [...]
NSW’s Premier has announced a raft of measures to combat the facilitation of serious crimes, such as gang-related murder. • Mon, 07 Sep 2026 • … [...]
Key points Attackers exploited a critical Metabase vulnerability to breach Mathspace after the company failed to patch its self-hosted instance … [...]
Key points ACMA has fined Telstra $277,000 for failing to use required identity authentication processes to prevent SIM swapping fraud. • The fraud … [...]
Key points Vocus is grappling with a cable break on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) system between Perth and Singapore, following a shunt fault on … [...]
Key points Tabcorp has named Maxine Harrison as its new chief information security officer, following the former leader's departure in July. • Harrison … [...]
Key points 382 Australian and 56 New Zealand Exchange servers remain vulnerable to CVE-2026-62911 as of August 31, three weeks after Microsoft's … [...]
in brief Scammers are exploiting the growing use of CAPTCHAs to trick people into running malicious code outside their browser. • An expert has practical … [...]
There's a warning tonight about a rise in fake digital IDs being sold to teenagers. Cyber safety experts say it's putting vulnerable Victorians at risk of having their identities stolen. [...]
The federal government has launched a pilot scheme that will allow Australians to compare the cyber security of smart devices before buying them. • … [...]
Modernised Definitions: Casting a Wider Net The Exposure Draft Bill would amend and clarify some of the foundational definitions in the Privacy Act … [...]