Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The intruder told The New York Times they got in by sending a text message to an employee while posing as an employee from Uber’s IT department. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Follow the day’s news Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Where the parties stand So the Greens are pushing hard against new coal and gas but have not indicated they are willing to kill off the legislation. Jobless rate increase higher than economists expected.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner launches inquiry into platform’s use of marketing pixels to track people’s online habits Australia’s privacy watchdog has launched an inquiry into how TikTok harvests personal data and whether it is being done with consent.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 25, 2019

The new disclosures include a total of 240 cases that resulted in information valuable to criminal investigations and two that “may have been used in a prosecution”.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 14, 2020

Related: Covidsafe app: how Australia’s coronavirus contact tracing app works, what it does, downloads and problems Related: Australian public's confidence in 5G 'shaken' by misinformation campaign Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Related: Australian government secretly releasing sensitive medical records to police Continue reading. When the Coalition government passed mandatory data retention laws in 2015, the legislation explicitly ruled out forcing telecommunications companies to hold web-browsing histories of its users as part of the regime.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Mark Dreyfus made the comments on Monday, promising to consider European-style privacy reforms after his bill increasing penalties for companies that fail to protect customer data passed in 2022.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Hotly debated rights ‘are in fact backed by few constitutional or statutory guarantees’ Australians must be vigilant to ensure that extraordinary powers invoked during the Covid-19 pandemic are not extended beyond the crisis, the president of the Law Council has warned.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Lawyers and health privacy advocates condemn laxness of privacy provisions in guidelines The Australian government is releasing highly sensitive medical records to police through a secret regime that experts say contains fundamentally flawed privacy protections.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 27, 2023

Tencent-owned WeChat told a parliamentary committee examining foreign interference on social media that as of July 2023, the communications app favoured by Australia’s Chinese diaspora community had fewer than 500,000 daily active users in Australia. The company told the committee in 2020 that its user base was 690,000.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 7, 2023

The latest Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey, released on Tuesday by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), found three-quarters of Australians feel data breaches are one of the biggest risks to privacy they face. That is an increase of 13% since the survey was last conducted in early 2020.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 17, 2020

It is a big team Australia moment,” he said. Related: Australia's coronavirus contact tracing app: what we know so far The App we are working on to help our health workers trace people who have been in contact with coronavirus will not be mandatory.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But the telecommunications industry organisation Communications Alliance has revealed that at least 87 other state and federal organisations – including city councils, the RSPCA and the South Australian fisheries department – have accessed the data under section 280 of the Telecommunications Act.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 27, 2023

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. TikTok was banned from government devices in early April over data collection and security concerns connected to the Chinese government.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 25, 2020

But it’s an uphill battle due to a long history of secrecy and failures to live up to promises on security and privacy of Australians’ data.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Australian government has spent $1.97bn since the system was introduced as the e-health record in 2009 A decade since it was first announced, the federal government has spent close to $2bn on its troubled My Health Record system, and half of the 23m records created lie empty almost a year after the government made the system opt-out.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2018

In October the Council of Australia Governments agreed to give federal and state police real-time access to passport, visa, citizenship and driver’s licence images for a wide range of criminal investigations.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place. That’s it for this week’s round-up. We hope you found it useful.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 12, 2018

Government moves ahead with legislation despite criticism from the opposition The Australian government is pushing ahead with controversial legislation it says will create “back doors” into encrypted communication services – but still can’t say when it will introduce the bill.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 24, 2018

Australians should reject it | Julia Powles Continue reading. The parliamentary library has warned the law governing MyHealth Records represents a “significant reduction” in safeguards on police getting medical records because the operator cannot routinely require them to get a warrant.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Exclusive: Data includes employees’ names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails and system passwords The Department of Social Services has written to 8,500 current and former employees warning them their personal data held by a contractor has been breached.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 15, 2018

The people demanding these new powers have proven that they cannot be trusted with the powers they already have The good news is, the war on maths is postponed, because maths won. The government appears to have given up on its ambition of undermining the global encryption standards that underpin secure communications on the internet.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 13, 2018

Related: Australian bill to create back door into encrypted apps in 'advanced stages' Continue reading. The minister for law enforcement and cyber security, Angus Taylor, released an exposure draft of the bill on Tuesday that would extend obligations to tech giants including Facebook, Apple and Google to assist police and other agencies.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 13, 2018

Digital Rights Watch warns of ‘systematic and wilful degradation of our human rights online’ • Sign up to receive the top stories every morning Gillian Triggs, Australia’s controversial former human rights commissioner has had a personal experience of the dangers of data retention laws.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Amid the bonus payments, there are concerns patients have been signed up without their informed consent Medical clinics have been pocketing up to $50,000 a year in bonus payments to sign people up to the My Health Record scheme, amid concerns patients have been registered without their informed consent.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 25, 2018

A spokesman for the library told Guardian Australia the parliamentary librarian, Dianne Heriot, “decided to temporarily take down the post”, which contradicted the health minister’s advice, while it is reviewed after concerns were raised by the health department.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

‘Each application would be assessed on its own merits,’ senators told Pharmaceutical companies will be allowed to apply for data from the controversial My Health Record system, a Senate committee hearing has been told.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In a deal between the attorney general, Christian Porter, and his shadow, Mark Dreyfus, the government has agreed to limit the powers to investigation of “serious offences” and add new safeguards to agencies’ ability to demand tech companies build backdoors into their products.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 19, 2018

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s bullish approach to My Health Record shows it learned no lessons from the UK’s disastrous version A three-month countdown clock alerted many Australians this week to the government’s progress on a massive, mandatory health data centralisation scheme.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Australian Industry Group has responded to the call for consultation on the assistance and access bill by warning of unintended consequences from the home affairs minister’s push to force telcos and tech giants, including Apple, Samsung, Google and Facebook, to include concealed “backdoors” into devices and messaging platforms.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 6, 2018

Intelligence committee wants to know what data was shared with Chinese firms and why Malcolm Turnbull would “love to see the boss” of Facebook appear before Australia’s intelligence committee, as parliament grapples with new security threats wrought by global internet and social network giants.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Australia and the US are negotiating a deal to speed up information sharing about criminal suspects Australia and the US have begun negotiating a deal to speed up information sharing about criminal suspects between law enforcement agencies and tech giants such as Google and Facebook.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Reports of lengthy phone waits and hotline systems crash suggest many people opting out in final weeks The health minister, Greg Hunt, and the Australian Digital Health Agency have refused to give an update on how many Australians have opted out of the My Health Record system.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 26, 2018

Peak bodies want abolition of ‘loopholes’ that give access to law enforcement, Centrelink or the tax office The peak bodies for general practitioners and social services have united to call for major changes to My Health Record to ensure it can only be used for medical purposes.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 29, 2018

Australians should reject it | Julia Powles Continue reading. Related: GPs and social service providers demand My Health Record protections “I have depression, I opted out on day one" Related: There is no social license for My Health Record.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Emails produced under freedom of information reveal that the chief operating officer of the department, Matt Yannopoulos, complained that the advice by the library’s director of foreign affairs, defence and security, Nigel Brew, was “misleading and/or inaccurate”.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Majority uncomfortable with commercial platforms selling data and the government providing data to businesses A majority of Australians oppose harvesting of their personal information by apps and websites, with three-quarters reporting they are uncomfortable with the on-sale or government provision of their data to businesses.

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