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Australia beefs up cyber defences after major breachesThe federal government said it will also subject telecommunications firms to tougher cyber reporting rules which apply to critical infrastr...22 Nov, 2023, 11.17 AM IST- Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outageThe Singapore Telecommunications-owned company had recently war-gamed scenarios in which the routers that direct voice and internet data fa...17 Nov, 2023, 05.03 PM IST
- Australia Inc roiled by raft of cyber attacks since late 2022Australian firms have suffered many cyber attacks since last September, putting the spotlight on the country's understaffed cybersecurity i...20 Jun, 2023, 11.39 AM IST
- Australia may inadvertently fuel cyber crime, says data theft victim organisationIDCare said by raising the threat of massive fines, Australia would force companies to choose whether to pay A$1 million, the typical cost ...05 Apr, 2023, 04.45 PM IST
- Australia's Medibank gets second class-action lawsuit over 2022 data breachThe company breached its disclosure obligations by not revealing information regarding the alleged deficiencies in its cyber security syste...29 Mar, 2023, 06.05 PM IST
- Very much in sync with India’s decision on 5G equipment: Australia’s cyber affairs ambassadorIn November, India and Australia convened their fifth bilateral Cyber Policy Dialogue. From the Australian side, Tobias Feakin, ambassador ...07 Dec, 2022, 03.47 PM IST
- Hackers leak Australian health records on dark webThe data included names, birth dates, passport numbers and information on medical claims for hundreds of customers who were separated into ...09 Nov, 2022, 01.12 PM IST
- Ransomware hackers hit Australian defence communications platformThe ForceNet service, one of the external providers the defence department contracts to run its websites, has come under attack but so far ...31 Oct, 2022, 10.57 AM IST
- Australian health insurer Medibank says data of all customers hackedMedibank said its priority was to discover the specific data stolen in relation to each customer and to share that information with those c...26 Oct, 2022, 08.40 AM IST
- Major data breach at Australia's top health insurer MedibankThe company did not say how many of its 4 million customers were likely to have been affected but warned the number was likely to rise. The...20 Oct, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
- Singtel's second unit faces cyber attack weeks after Optus data breachThe breach at Optus, Australia's second-largest mobile operator, late last month compromised data of up to 10 million customers, triggering...10 Oct, 2022, 10.07 AM IST
- Optus hack: Australia updates telecom law to protect dataThe changes to Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and other providers to better coordinate with financial institutions and governme...06 Oct, 2022, 11.17 AM IST
- Cyberattack on Australian telco Optus affects 1.2 million customersThe breach last month by an anonymous online account, which affected 10 million customers, equivalent to around 40% of Australia's populati...03 Oct, 2022, 04.39 PM IST
- Australian government slams Optus for cybersecurity breachThe company ran a full-page apology in major Australian newspapers on Saturday for the "devastating" breach that it first reported on Sept....02 Oct, 2022, 10.50 AM IST
- Austalia's Optus says 'deeply sorry' for cyberattackThe company has agreed to pay the cost of replacing passports of compromised customers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.01 Oct, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
- Optus, Australian govt clash over cyber attack amid reports of hacker retreatAustralian media reported on Tuesday that hackers have backtracked from their ransom demand of $1 million in cryptocurrency for not releasi...27 Sep, 2022, 09.44 AM IST
- Australia mulls tougher cybersecurity laws after data breachCybersecurity Minister Clare O'Neil told Australian Broadcasting Corp. the hack was an "unprecedented theft of consumer information in Aust...26 Sep, 2022, 05.26 PM IST
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