Industry News: Cyber | Australia (10)

‘The Greatest Threat we Face’: Cyber Security Tsar Quits with a Warning

2019-05-03

SydneyMorningHerald: Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's handpicked cybersecurity tsar Alastair MacGibbon is quitting his role and has declared cyber attacks "the greatest existential threat we face". Mr MacGibbon has been the face of cybersecurity for federal authorities for the past three years, handling the public response to the cyberattack on the national census in 2016 and the hacking earlier this year of the Parliament and the major political parties...

Morrison on Cyber Alert Through $156 Million Election Promise (Australia)

2019-04-29

TheSydneyMorningHerald: The Morrison government will scale up the cyber security teams that defend Australia’s communications networks in a $156 million election pledge that includes new scholarships and recruitment programs. On alert for attacks from foreign agencies and criminals, the government wants to expand its online security workforce across several departments while using public funds to encourage more young Australians to study computer science...

First Australian Threat Report From Cyber Security Firm Carbon Black Finds That 89% Of Australian Businesses Surveyed Have Been Breached During The Past 12 Months

2019-04-01

CSO: Carbon Black, a leader in cloud-delivered, next generation endpoint security, today released the results of its first Australian Threat Report. According to the survey research, attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, causing regular security breaches affecting 89% of organisations surveyed. The report analyses survey results from different industries, organisation sizes and IT team sizes to build a picture of the modern attack and cyber defence landscape in Australia...

More than 110,000 Australians Caught up In September's Facebook Cyber-attack

2019-03-26

TheGuardian: The detailed personal information of more than 60,000 Australians was exposed in a massive cyber-attack on Facebook last year, giving hackers the ability to access their movements, hometown, search history, email and phone number. Internal documents reveal the attack on Facebook in September last year affected an estimated 111,813 Australians, among roughly 29 million worldwide...

Police Bust Man for Allegedly Selling 1 Million Netflix, Spotify Passwords

2019-03-12

CNet: An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly raking in an estimated AU$300,000 ($211,000) selling stolen login details online. The man was allegedly behind the website WickedGen.com, which boasted that it had 120,000 users and sold Netflix, Spotify and Hulu logins stolen from almost 1 million accounts...

Cyber Attacks Could Help Trigger a War, says Marise Payne (Australian Foreign Minister)

2019-03-11

SydneyMorningHerald: Foreign Minister Marise Payne has warned that the internet and cyber security are now so central to modern nations that serious hacking incidents could escalate into war. Senator Payne, during an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney, noted that Australia had recently suffered its own serious assault on democratic institutions in the form of hack attacks on Parliament and the major political parties...

Industry News: ESG5

‘The Greatest Threat we Face’: Cyber Security Tsar Quits with a Warning

2019-05-03

Morrison on Cyber Alert Through $156 Million Election Promise (Australia)

2019-04-29

First Australian Threat Report From Cyber Security Firm Carbon Black Finds That 89% Of Australian Businesses Surveyed Have Been Breached During The Past 12 Months

2019-04-01

More than 110,000 Australians Caught up In September's Facebook Cyber-attack

2019-03-26

Police Bust Man for Allegedly Selling 1 Million Netflix, Spotify Passwords

2019-03-12

Cyber Attacks Could Help Trigger a War, says Marise Payne (Australian Foreign Minister)

2019-03-11

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