Number of customer records affected in Latitude data breach rises to 14M
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot powered by GPT-4
146b threats detected worldwide in 2022
Thousands of customer IDs ransacked in Latitude cyber attack
Fortinet Global Threat Landscape Report for second half of 2022
PC company Acer confirms 160GB of data stolen in its latest breach
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Government proposes $50m data breach fines The Australian government will introduce new legislation to increase data breach penalties, with fines of up to $50m being proposed. Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus announced on 22 October that the Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022, is set to significantly increase fines in the event of serious […]
Customers of Australian company Vinomofo are the latest victims of personal information exposure after the wine dealer suffered a major cyber-attack. Personal information including names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers are at risk of exposure. It is not yet clear if all of Vinomofo’s 500,000 customers were exposed but […]
Woolworths says 2.2 million MyDeal customers’ details exposed in data breach Millions of customers’ details have been exposed in a major data breach at an online shopping site owned by the retail giant Woolworths. In September Woolworths took an 80% stake in MyDeal, an Australian online shopping site, in a takeover worth more than $200m. MyDeal […]
Australian health insurer Medibank Private has been forced to take some of its customer-facing systems offline after being hit by a cyberattack. Health insurer Medibank Private hit by cyber attack – ABC News Medibank’s ahm and international student policy management systems are currently offline. Medibank is still seeking to confirm that no sensitive information from […]
ACSC flags Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has reported two new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Servers 2013, 2016, 2019. Microsoft published a list of the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), assigned to: CVE-2022-41082 – remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-41040 – elevation of privilege vulnerability Also noted are Historical CVEs related to ProxyShell, […]
Optus hacked; customers warned to check in with their banks after personal data exposed Last Thursday, Optus alerted its customers of the security breach and confirmed that the attack was quickly identified and shut down. However, the telco’s 11 million customers have been urged by cyber security experts to be extra vigilant of potential threats […]