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The federal opposition has raised concerns with the lack of transparency from Commonwealth entities where cybersecurity is concerned. During a hearing held by the Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit on Tuesday, representatives from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) were probed on the reasons why Commonwealth entities are continually performing low in audits […] More
Image via Wishbone website A hacker has put up for sale today the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll. The data is being advertised across multiple hacking forums and being sold for 0.85 bitcoin (~$8000), according to ads […] More
Image: Erol Ahmed, Bank of America, ZDNet Bank of America disclosed this week a security incident that impacted its online platform for processing loan requests filed by US companies for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a COVID-19 relief fund set up by the US government. The bank says that information for some companies who applied […] More
Secure instant messaging app Signal launched this week a new feature called “Signal PINs” which the company says will help users migrate account data between devices. Signal says that in the long run, this new feature is the base and the first step towards moving away from using phone numbers as profile IDs. How Signal […] More
Employees planning to leave their jobs are involved in 60% of insider cybersecurity incidents and data leaks, new research suggests. According to the Securonix 2020 Insider Threat Report, published on Wednesday, “flight risk” employees, generally deemed to be individuals on the verge of resigning or otherwise leaving a job, often change their behavioral patterns from […] More
Adobe has released an out-of-band patch to tackle a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Adobe Character Animator. On Tuesday, the company released a security advisory warning customers of CVE-2020-9586, a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to RCE attacks. Adobe Character Animator on Windows and macOS machines, versions 3.2 and earlier, are vulnerable […] More
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt has denied state health officials are unable to access COVIDSafe app data to perform coronavirus contact tracing. During a press conference on Wednesday, Hunt was asked if reports, originally from The Guardian, that New South Wales Health officials have been unable to access the data for contact tracing were true. […] More
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was commended on Tuesday by the Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit for its ability to effectively manage cybersecurity risk by implementing mitigation strategies beyond the requirements of the Essential Eight. Asked by the committee to detail its success in the cybersecurity space, RBA assistant governor of corporate […] More
