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A top Australian university with close ties to the country's government and security services on Tuesday said it had been the victim of a vast hack by a "sophisticated operator" who gained access...
Many of the Problems Are Also Common in the U.S.Similar to security deficiencies often found in the U.S. healthcare sector, weak security controls and practices are putting Australian patient data...
Out of 25 million? Cripes The Office of the Australian Data Information Commissioner's quarterly report has revealed that more than 10.5 million Ozzies – about 40 per cent of the lot of them – had...
Report: Hacker Could Spoof Child's Location, View Personal InformationAn Australian company that markets a smartwatch designed to let parents monitor their child has taken its service offline...
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Senate Committee Reviewing Law With an Eye to AmendTechnology organizations say Australia's anti-encryption law passed in December is already undermining trust in their local operations. The...
'No evidence that any data has been accessed time' say Australian officials as fingers pointed at foreign spies The Australian Parliament has reset all passwords on the parliamentary computing...
No Signs of Data Theft; Password Resets OrderedHackers have breached the Australian Parliament's network, although investigators say they have found no evidence that attackers stole any data. But...
Australia's parliament revealed Friday that its computer network had been compromised by an unspecified "security incident" and said an investigation was under way. read more
Restricted Data Access Required by Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism LawsMassive data brokers - Equifax, Experian, Illion and others - are leveraging Australia's electoral roll, which is a...