IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Breached organisation: Personify Care, an online patient portal provider in Australia. There’s no evidence that the data was exfiltrated, and the data has already been restored, with new measures put in place to prevent recurrence of such an incident.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. The new Europe terms of use will apply from 15 February. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place. Fitzpatrick was arrested in March 2023. That’s it for this week’s round-up.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores. Dating sites are popular targets for cyber crime, and OkCupid wouldn’t be the first to disclose an incident. At least one victim said that the “hacker started harassing him with strange text messages”.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome to a new year! Following our Christmas break, we’re rounding up two weeks’ worth of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Australia Yes 95.19

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, has shut down its network and turned to operating manually after a cyberattack. The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria (FRV), Australia, has shut down its network after a cyber attack launched by “an external third party.” . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Investigative reports reveal pig butchering’s link to organized crime gangs in Asia that attract young job seekers with the promise of customer service jobs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Cyber crime is on the rise in every country or region. In Singapore, cybercrimes accounted for 43% of overall crimes. Ransomware attacks are the “celebrities” of cybersecurity crimes because their impact makes headline news. Referenced reports: Australia: [link] /. This is the most widely evident finding.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

Threat actors also used healthcare providers across Australia. The SEO poisoning techniques targeting the Australian healthcare industry used keywords like “hospital”, “health”, “medical”, and “enterprise agreement”, paired with Australian city names. VLC Media Player is one of the most popular pieces of software with over 3.5

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. Meanwhile, you can subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox.

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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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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Other news EDPB launches open-source website auditing tool The European Data Protection Board has launched an audit tool that can help analyse websites’ compliance with the law.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Source (New) Non-profit USA Yes 25,908.62 At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. based researchers and educators”. The attack saw 9.7

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 13, 2018

Proposed laws would also compel Facebook, Apple and Google to assist in decrypting private communications Law enforcement agencies would gain new powers to conduct covert surveillance on electronic devices and compel technology companies to assist in decrypting private communications under proposed legislation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Peter Dutton warned bid to boost government’s surveillance powers could give criminals more tools Peter Dutton’s proposed legislation to expand the government’s surveillance capabilities into telecommunication devices through the inclusion of spyware risks could create “systemic weakness or vulnerability” that would be open to exploitation, Australia’s (..)

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. CBS Evening New s: Cornell University graduate student Robert Morris was indicted today for planting a virus that infiltrated more than 6000 computers across the country.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Over to Kent and it's the Police Cyber Crime Unit's turn: #CyberSecurityawarenessmonth , Check to see if your email address has been compromised? link] pic.twitter.com/hqV8hTvnVw — Cyber Crime Unit (@kentpolicecyber) October 4, 2017.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. And there are similar ones by Western Australia and refuge in the UK. That would be something to consider. But in general, I would rule it out. there are very good science on tech abuse.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

People have this image in their mind because that's what they've been conditioned to believe: These are the images that adorn the news pieces we read and we've all seen them before. As the news broke, a "former cyber crime cop" was quoted as saying : They are claiming to be from Russia and be an Islamic cyber jihadi group.

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