and “everyday life”. “Consumer reliance on telecommunications is far greater today than when the current code was made in 2019. The harms to consumers are also greater when services are unavailable or protections are lacking,” O’Loughlin said “Recent...

security measures. Justice Derrington declared that FIIG contravened section 912A of the Corporations Act between 13 March 2019 and 8 June 2023 across three distinct limbs: failing to have adequate financial, technological and human resources...

with major technology suppliers. A recent review found that those agreements delivered $1.6 billion in discounts between 2019 and 2024, while also strengthening legal protections and supporting more than 10,000 Australian jobs through supplier...

program” on its darknet leak site, where it is actively recruiting for affiliates. “We have been working since September 3, 2019, and we are not going to stop, no matter how much the intelligence services around the world want us to stop,” the group...

and the court found that FIIG had failed to adequately protect its customers’ data over a four-year period between March 2019 and June 2023. FIIG Securities was also ordered to pay $500,000 to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC),...

its investigation found that FIIG Securities failed to protect the data of 18,000 clients for over four years, between March 2019 and June 2023, by not having an effective cyber incident response plan and not investing enough money, resources, staff or...

FreePBX said in November. “An attacker could leverage this to obtain remote access to the system as the asterisk user.” CVE-2019-19006 is an incorrect access control vulnerability impacting Sangoma FreePBX 115.0.16.26 and below, 14.0.13.11 and below,...

its mission.” Kinetic IT has been used by the Defence’s ICT sector since its first contract for an ICT Service Desk in 2019, providing technological and digital support to “mission-critical environments”. “This agreement recognises the strength of our...

catalogue on the day of its publication. This zero-day is a security feature bypass vulnerability impacting Microsoft Office 2019 and has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8. According to Microsoft, “reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision in...

all four LHDs had plans that were “not fit-for-purpose”. With none of the LHDs implementing the NSW Cyber Security Policy (2019) that requires state bodies to “establish, implement and maintain controls” across the ICT and cyber domain, this puts NSW...

the personal information of six donors and 5,000 former students and alumni was stolen from data sets between 2010 and 2019. Gower added that the university believes no data has yet been published. “We have found no evidence of misuse but will...

used to connect point-of-sale devices, went end-of-life in August 2021, and the vulnerability was first disclosed in 2019. According to the CVE record, this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution via a specially crafted HTTP request. Cyber...

a critical issue, and it is present in the Microsoft Windows Server Update Service in Windows Server (versions 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025). “Australian organisations should review their networks for use of vulnerable instances of the Windows Server...

which the government said will aid it in identifying and preventing identity fraud and with secure service access. In 2019, both Victoria and Tasmania submitted licences and photos to a system that would later interface with the NDLFRS, with South...

of Windows Server receive patches. In place of patches, admins for older Windows products such as Windows 10 and Server 2019 receive another implicit reminder that Microsoft would strongly prefer that everyone upgrade. Remote Access Connection Manager:...

by evidence,” in paragraphs 25 and 26. However, the consent orders issued by Federal Court Justice Jennifer Davies in the 2019 case don’t actually contain a paragraph 25 or 26. Another quote was attributed to paragraph 30, but actually appeared in...

shopping searches. Google was fined €2.42 billion (roughly A$3.83 billion at the time, A$4.32 billion now). Then, in 2019, the commission once again fined Google for blocking ads displayed by competitor advertising companies on publisher search result...

Asia-Pacific regarding agreements the search giant made with Australia’s largest telcos: Optus and Telstra. Between December 2019 and March 2021, both telcos agreed to pre-install Google Search on Android devices to the exclusion of other search...

languages. It also needs to integrate with Microsoft development environments such as Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2019 and 2022. Most notably, any code processed by the AI cannot be used to train the model further, with the ATO citing privacy...

advantage.” CyberCX is one of Australia’s largest cyber security firms. Headquartered in Melbourne and established in 2019, the company boasts a workforce of about 1,400 and operates security operations centres across Australia and New Zealand. The...