Macquarie Government — which is a part of the Macquarie Telecom Group — has had the ATO cyber security contract since 2019, and will now continue to serve the agency through to 2024. As of this month, the updated contract is worth a healthy $86 million....

posted to a clear web site that any web browser can access. According to AT&T’s investigations, the data dates back to 2019 and includes both past and present customers – the dataset features approximately 7.6 million current account holders and about...

deadlines for fixing these issues. The audit was conducted as part of the NSW Cyber Security Policy, which was launched in 2019. As part of the NSW Auditor-General’s report released earlier this week (2 October), the state reviewed the cyber security...

The announcement follows the ASD’s Cryptographic Evaluation (ACE) level certification of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ models in 2019, which became the first Android devices to be approved for Australian government use at ‘Protected’ level. “Samsung devices are...

used in most messaging apps. Previously, iMessage has used Elliptic Curve cryptography, which replaced RSA encryption in 2019. But as secure as that protocol is, a quantum computer could make short work of it. No such machines exist yet, but they’re...

accident, adding that these conversations were then disclosed to advertisers to personalise marketing. The case goes back to 2019, when The Guardian in the UK reported that Apple had hired contractors to listen to private conversations captured by Siri,...

identity network from January to June. While there was 27 per cent growth year-on-year in transaction volume compared to 2019, the period saw an overall decline in global attack volume. Overall, human-initiated attacks across the digital identity...

group of the same name. Whereas the real Anonymous Sudan – which was a “loose hacking collective” – began its operations in 2019, the newer group started posting on its Telegram channel in January 2023. As far as CyberCX can confirm, the two groups do...

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,...

for world-leading international charities and organisations, including Amnesty International and UNICEF. “Between 2015 and 2019, [Kind] was an independent consultant to a number of human rights organisations, trusts and foundations, international...

legal “guard rails” for Europe’s largest defence project: FCAS. The expert panel, which was first initiated in Germany in 2019, currently includes stakeholders such as the German Ministry of Defence, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foundations,...

company by taking immediate and appropriate measures as and when needed.” Airbus is continuing to monitor the incident. In 2019, Airbus and the Thales Group signed a joint cyber security agreement to work as partners, pairing Airbus’ Orion Malware...

collaborative efforts and more. This is the second time the AFP has led the VGT, previously chairing it from 2009 to 2019. At the time, the ACCCE had not been established, and the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Other members of the VGT...

created the RAT, is facing six charges for his alleged role in creating, selling and administering the RAT between 2013 and 2019. He was scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on 29 July 2022, but the matter was adjourned until 19 August...

to increased cyber attacks, identity theft, exploitation and misinformation,” Wilson said. The lab was first established in 2019 and has already launched a number of projects, such as The Explain Project, which explores the use of AI in the criminal...

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...

Microsoft products: Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Microsoft Office 2019 One upside is that as far as the ACSC has observed, this vulnerability is not being exploited. Microsoft has mitigation advice...

of Microsoft Exchange: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013; Microsoft Exchange Server 2016; and Microsoft Exchange Server 2019. Following the news, Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie commented, “Australian organisations cannot be complacent when it...

data will be published. ACSC explains that malicious actors have been targeting Australian organisations with LockBit since 2019. “LockBit (AKA LockBit 2.0, ABCD) is a ransomware variant first detected in September 2019, used by cyber criminals...

Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has reported zero-day vulnerabilities associated with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. Microsoft has published a list of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), assigned to: CVE-2022-41082 – remote code...