Apr 13, 2023 | Podcast
The Tasmanian state government has recently suffered a data breach. The hackers targeted a third-party transfer software used by the Tasmanian Department of Education, Children and Young People. Initially the Science and Technology Minister said that it appeared that...
Apr 12, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial has announced that they have received a ransom demand from the criminals behind the cyber-attack. The company disclosed last month that they had suffered a data breach which exposed 14 million customer records. The breach had originated from a...
Apr 11, 2023 | Podcast
Following the recent large Australian data breaches with Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial, the government will be summoning the nation’s largest banks and financial services companies to a series of cyber war games to test how they would respond to...
Apr 10, 2023 | Podcast
Uber has suffered yet another data breach. Affected drivers were notified that Uber “became aware” of suspicious activity in its internal information systems in late January. After investigating, the company determines that an unauthorised third party had...
Apr 7, 2023 | Podcast
Service NSW has suffered a breach which exposes personal data of thousands of its customers. Personal information such as driver’s licenses, vehicle registration details, contact information and children’s name may have been exposed to other logged in...
Apr 6, 2023 | Podcast
TikTok has been banned on all Australian government devices over fears the Chinese app could be used for spying. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed off on the ban after a security review was conducted by the Department of Home Affairs. As part of the ban, TikTok...
