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Experts comment on Aus Parliament breach

Mon, 11th Feb 2019
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Late last week, Australian security agencies reported they were looking into a security breach of the Federal Parliament's network.
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Blame culture only makes data breaches worse

Fri, 8th Feb 2019
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Australians must move away from victim-blaming culture in order to improve cybersecurity, says Palo Alto Networks.
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Expert comment: Latest NDB report shows Aus is being targeted

Thu, 7th Feb 2019
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The OIAC received 262 notifications in the three months, the highest number since the commencement of the NDB scheme.
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Penten & Cyber Security CRC to research 'advanced cyber traps'

Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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Penten teams up with the Cyber Security CRC to research AI-enhanced cyber traps for faster breach detection, aiming to bolster Australia's cyber defences.
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Experts comment on record 772mil-user data breach

Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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Largest ever database of breached login details leaked on dark web, containing over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.
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Report on SingHealth breach condemns poor security practices

Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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A report on SingHealth's 2018 data breach criticises inadequate security practices, revealing that staff missteps and system flaws left patient data exposed.
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NordVPN rounds up the worst data breaches of 2018

Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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In 2018, over a billion people were impacted by data breaches. From British Airways to Marriott, NordVPN highlights the most severe security lapses.
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Two top execs' predictions for cybersecurity in 2019

Tue, 1st Jan 2019
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One Identity and Secureworks executives Alex Tilley and Serkan Cetin have released what they see coming for cybersecurity in 2019.
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NASA got hacked (again)

Thu, 20th Dec 2018
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The compromised servers stored personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to current and former NASA employees.
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Three things that will happen in 2019 – and one that will not

Thu, 20th Dec 2018
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Commvault's Nigel Tozer reflects on the year that's been and the one ahead with three predictions of what will be and one that won't.
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Twitter suspects state-sponsored ties to support forum breach

Wed, 19th Dec 2018
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One of Twitter's support forums was hit by a data breach that may have ties to a state-sponsored attack, however users' personal data was exposed.
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Marriott sets up call centres to answer questions on data breach

Mon, 17th Dec 2018
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Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.
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The Implications of a data disaster and why effective DR is critical

Thu, 13th Dec 2018
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93 percent of companies without disaster recovery who suffer a major data disaster are out of business within one year.
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52mil users affected by Google+'s second data breach

Tue, 11th Dec 2018
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Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.
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Quora's been breached: Users, change your passwords

Wed, 5th Dec 2018
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Quora's 100 million users are the latest targets in a major data breach, but at least the company has moved quickly to contain it.
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500 million impacted by Marriott database breach

Mon, 3rd Dec 2018
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A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data.
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Dell.com customers urged to change passwords after breach

Fri, 30th Nov 2018
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Dell is asking all of its Dell.com customers to change their passwords after it detected 'unauthorised activity' on its network earlier this month.
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Uber disguised breach ransom payment as a bug bounty reward

Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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Uber fined £385,000 by UK Information Commissioner's Office for data breach that affected 2.7 million UK customers and drivers.
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Almost half of NZ businesses unprepared for data breaches

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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The HP New Zealand IT Security Study surveyed 434 New Zealand small to large businesses across the services, production, retail and hospitality.
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Amazon customers irate after 'technical error'

Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
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A 'technical error' at Amazon has exposed customer names and email addresses, leaving many irate and questioning if it was a data breach.