It seems like there is a steady stream of news regarding data breaches and cyber-attacks in Australia. While most of these infringements impact smaller businesses, occasionally there are “major” security issues that affect big organizations and a large number of...
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) had fallen victim to a nasty impersonation scam that targeted cybersecurity vulnerabilities through myGov website and a 2017 federal government First Home Super Saver Scheme. The issue began when Mr. Trevor Riessen — a Darwin...
AUGUST has been a smooth month for data breaches, with a rounded sum of 114 million breached records. That is nearly 10 per cent of the monthly average. But that number comes from about 95 incidents, which is the highest...
Data breaches occur almost every day, exposing the credit card numbers, social security numbers, mobile numbers, email addresses, passwords, and other sensitive data of thousands of people. Unsurprisingly, the figures from the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) latest quarterly statistics report...
The healthcare industry was hit by challenges to information security in 2018, with phishing emails, and weaponized ransomware, dominating the year. In the first half of 2019, these threats are found to continue, and cyber criminals got more productive, despite...
Healthcare data breaches happen now with an ever hefty price tag — an average mitigation cost of $6.45 million! According to a recent study on the data breach costs, organizations in the Healthcare domain were found to experience the costliest...
According to studies, almost 90% of Australian companies report that they receive around 5,000 cyber menaces a day. Australia’s banks and insurers have always been the most attractive targets for cybercriminals. As this is the case, the Australian Prudential Regulation...
Cyber-attacks continue to evolve rapidly, and even developing nations have missed staying ahead of the fraud hook. The recent hacking of the system of Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) proves this. The financial data of nearly all taxpayers in the...
What Is A Ransomware Ransomware, one of the increasing malware cyberthreat of the 21st century, endangers enterprises and public organizations throughout the world. An unusually destructive and evolving variety of malicious software, it affects mobile devices and computers, frequently expanding...
The United States, Australia, and various other countries have confirmed that they don’t want any hardware devices from the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to have any significant role in the future fifth-generation wireless networks. Just as 4G interfaces began the...