APRA has unveiled a new cyber security strategy and flagged it will step up its review of current cyber compliance, holding boards accountable for shortfalls. The prudential regulator’s cyber security strategy for 2020 to 2024 [...]
Western Australia’s auditor was so concerned about vulnerabilities in the state’s registry system last year that she took the unusual step of delaying the release of findings so the issues could be addressed. Caroline Spencer [...]
The head of the Australian Defence Force’s information warfare division has called it quits after more than three years in the role. Major General Marcus Thompson, who has led the division since it was established [...]
A South Korean agency for protecting personal information fined Facebook 6.7 billion won (A$8.23 million) and sought a criminal investigation for providing users' personal information to other operators without consent. The country's Personal Information Protection [...]
Twitter has released plans for its new policy on how people are "verified" on the site, an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue check-mark badges [...]
A handful of the NSW government’s largest agencies are still without disaster recovery plans for all their IT systems and infrastructure, the state’s auditor-general has found. In an annual review [pdf] of internal controls and [...]
Law In Order, an Australian supplier of document and digital services to law firms, suffered a ransomware infection over the weekend that is believed to be the Netwalker malware. The company confirmed the attack in [...]
CBA and NAB have reacted with alarm at a proposal that would allow a recipient of banking data under the consumer data right to pass it directly to another recipient. The data transfer proposal was [...]
Security update for two vulnerabilities rolled out.
One or more of Australia’s key intelligence and security agencies “incidentally” collected data relating to the COVIDSafe contact tracing app in its first six months of operation. But there is no evidence to suggest that [...]
