About half a million dollars was taken from retirement accounts in an early April cyber attack on Australia's largest superannuation funds, information first shared by an anonymous inside source that provided details to the media.
UIDAI's handling of Aadhaar is likely to be facing substantial reforms, not just due to the findings of this data management report but also due to ongoing controversy over constitutionality.
A very rough year of cyber attacks prompted quick and dramatic legislative action in Australia, and the latest development is the announcement of a new national cybersecurity plan to be funded with A$587 million.
Medibank is Australia’s largest health insurance provider with some 3.7 million customers. In some cases, medical records are among the health insurance policies and the thief had named about 1,000 high-profile or at-risk people.
A statement of claim attached to mandatory court filings reveals that the ACMA will frame the Optus data breach as a case of negligence, asserting that the company failed to address an access control coding error that it had known about for some years.
Australian Clinical Labs reportedly detected the attack not long after it occurred and was contacted by government authorities in March, and were also notified in June that some of the patient data had been found available for sale on the dark web.
The announcement has raised questions in some circles as to what the extent of the cyber task force's plans are. "Hacking back" is a very contentious concept that exists in a murky international water of cyber engagement norms and unspoken rules.
A new system of warrants grants Australian police broad powers to infiltrate and even modify the online accounts of suspected cybercriminals, in the name of combating dark web transactions and anonymization.
A rogue OpenAI agent was once again responsible, finding and taking advantage of what appeared to be a serious weakness in the government health agency's systems. The incident is believed to be the first breach of a national government system conducted independently by an AI agent.
Australia's OAIC has called for law enforcement to be blocked from accessing Covid contact tracing data to track suspects via their check-in histories, saying that it threatens to undermine public participation in the program.
