It’s no accident that cyber criminals chose to cripple Australia’s major ports in the days leading up to the country’s major retail event,Black Friday.
Up to 7000 patients have been warned of a data breach at Victoria’s leading trauma hospital after a pharmacist accessed their private records.
Credit card details,driver’s licences and birth certificates could be among the personal information of Victorians that could be published on the dark web by cybercriminals,after data was stolen from law firm HWL Ebsworth.
Microsoft said the hackers were able to remain undetected for a month after gaining access to email data from about 25 organisations in mid-May.
HWL Ebsworth has obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court of NSW preventing hackers,and potentially the media,from disclosing its stolen information.
Melbourne-based Tesserent has agreed to a $176 million offer from multinational Thales.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the government was “not going to be shy” about calling out state-sponsored hacking campaigns.
The Australian Federal Police has had no response after providing detailed intelligence on those it believes were behind last year’s devastating privacy breach.
The company said the new policy is intended to protect users from security threats because accounts that had not been used for a while were more likely to be comprised.
Good news for all the password-haters out there:they are a step closer to being no more than an unpleasant memory.
The property giant contacted around 1900 staff and guests to inform them their data may have been accessed in the latest cyber incident involving an Australian company.