Tag: Breach
The Federal Government has released exposure draft legislation for a second tranche of reforms to the Privacy Act, targeting how businesses collect, use and trade in personal data while …
Melbourne-based ticket resale platform, Tixel, has notified users that their email addresses and mobile numbers may have been accessed after an attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability in its third-party …
A publicly accessible database containing approximately 9,042,977 facial images has been discovered by a cybersecurity researcher, raising concerns about how biometric data collected by reverse image search services is …
The CEO and Chairman of Ledger, Pascal Gauthier, has urged hardware wallet makers, exchanges and custodians to adopt shared security principles and stop engaging in public point-scoring when rivals …
The Minns’ NSW Government has introduced legislation into parliament that would expand the ability of police to compel access to and extract data from citizens’ mobile phones, extending powers …
Australian telehealth provider, Updoc, has confirmed that patient contact information may have been accessed by an unauthorised third party following a security incident affecting one of its external systems. …
Qualys has launched InstaScan, a new capability within its Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform designed to detect vulnerabilities within minutes of their public disclosure rather than waiting for scheduled …
A cybersecurity researcher has uncovered a collection of unsecured databases containing more than 666,000 records apparently linked to the Tribeca Film Festival, exposing contact details and personal information potentially …
Australian healthcare provider Partnered Health has confirmed that a malicious actor accessed its systems and stole personal information, including health records, from clinics across its national network. The company …
Nearly half of organisations still lack full visibility into the AI tools their employees are using, more than half of breached companies were told to stay quiet about it …
Half of all organisations in Australia and New Zealand are deploying AI agents with little to no formal governance, while 85 per cent of employees say deepfake content has …
Stolen healthcare data is driving a growing underground cybercrime economy, with patient records becoming valuable criminal assets that persist for years and fuel identity theft, extortion and credential abuse …
An Australian cybersecurity vendor is pitching a different approach to the growing problem of employees pasting sensitive corporate data into AI tools – one that draws on the logic …
Threat group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for a breach of edtech company Instructure, the maker of the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), allegedly compromising data belonging to …
Australia’s most exposed organisations aren’t the ones you’d expect. The majority of cyber attack victims are not large enterprises with global footprints – they are small and mid-sized businesses. …
Cyber threats facing small and mid-sized businesses are not new. What is changing is how quietly and efficiently attackers are gaining access. Barracuda’s latest SOC Threat Radar shows a …
A security research team has demonstrated how a critical vulnerability in MediaTek-powered Android smartphones can allow an attacker to extract user data – including messages, photos and crypto wallet …
Australian mines and factories are taking more than a month to detect data breaches, with some intrusions remaining hidden for more than a year, according to new research released …
Around the globe, organisations are betting big on emerging technologies like Ai. Australian and New Zealand-based companies are no exception. The numbers are striking: 73 per cent of organisations …
When attackers breached Salesloft in August, they didn’t go after staff accounts or human identities. Instead, they exploited an Ai-powered chatbot’s privileged access to systems like AWS and Slack. …
Radware has disclosed a zero-click, service-side vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Deep Research agent, warning enterprises that Ai-powered services face risks that bypass traditional security tools. The flaw, named ShadowLeak, …
Once heralded as the backbone of remote access, VPNs have increasingly become targeted focal points for cyber threats, transitioning from essential tools to significant security risks for organisations worldwide. …
Industrial networks are increasingly adopting wireless technologies, but this shift brings new security challenges. Nozomi Networks has uncovered a series of vulnerabilities in Advantech’s EKI-6333AC-2G wireless access points, exposing …
Recent data breaches have highlighted concerns about just how secure our personal information is in the hands of companies. But there’s one sector where a large-scale cybersecurity breach would …
