Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack
The UK’s elections watchdog has been targeted by a cyber-attack which allowed “hostile actors” to access electoral registers.
The Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was “not able to know conclusively” what information had been accessed.
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Minister admits leak of ‘sensitive’ information after research into the Optus and Medibank hacks was ‘deeply ironic’
The home affairs department exposed the personal information of more than 50 small business survey participants who were sought for their views on cybersecurity, Guardian Australia can reveal.
The names, business names, phone numbers and emails of the participants in the survey were published on the parliament website in response to a question on notice from May’s Budget estimates hearing.
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State’s chief information security officer says information from Victorian departments and agencies was accessed
Highly sensitive legal documents from the Victorian government’s departments and agencies have been published on the dark web by cybercriminals.
The breach is connected to data that was stolen from the law firm HWL Ebsworth in April by a Russian-linked ransomware gang and posted online.
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Darren Goldie says a ransomeware gang is responsible for posting the material online
Sensitive and personal government information has been stolen from law firm HWL Ebsworth by a Russian ransomware gang and posted online, Australia’s new cybersecurity chief says.
The significant breach was confirmed by new national cybersecurity coordinator, Darren Goldie, who said he was still working with the law firm to understand how many Australians have been affected.
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Hundreds of law firm’s clients waiting on confirmation of whether they are affected by data leaked in cyberattack
Hundreds of clients of law firm HWL Ebsworth, including dozens of government agencies, have been in discussions with the firm over whether highly sensitive legal information has been exposed – while a NSW court injunction prevents those potentially affected from searching through the data posted on the dark web to check.
The Russian-linked ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware group hacked the law firm in April. Earlier this month, the group published 1.1TB of the data it claimed to have stolen, later established to be 3.6TB worth of data.
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A cybercrime group has exploited a flaw in MOVEit software, and is now demanding a ransom
British Airways, Boots and the BBC have been hit with an ultimatum to begin ransom negotiations from a cybercrime group after employees’ personal data was stolen in a hacking attack.
On Wednesday it emerged that the gang behind a piece of ransomware known as Clop had posted the demand to its darkweb site, where stolen data is typically released if payments are not made by the victims.
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Real Estate Institute of Australia president says additional layer of responsibility could force smaller agencies to close down
Real estate agents are pushing back against proposed privacy law changes, saying small businesses should not face more red tape to keep customer and tenant data safe.
The Real Estate Institute of Australia president, Hayden Groves, said that an “additional layer of responsibility is really not necessary” on top of agents’ existing duties, saying that increased regulatory risks could be “the last straw” for smaller agencies which may shut up shop.
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Privacy watchdog will be asked to investigate after information became available for all employees to view on the staff intranet
The confidential drug and alcohol test results of graduate paramedics were available for every Ambulance Victoria staff member to view under a significant breach that is set to be reported to the state’s privacy watchdog.
According to an email sent late Thursday to members of the Victorian Ambulance Union, confidential spreadsheets relating to pre-employment testing of graduate paramedics in 2017 and 2018 were available on the staff intranet until the union alerted Ambulance Victoria to the problem.
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Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read
A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.
The site’s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram’s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network.
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CMA to look at underlying systems of artificial intelligence tools amid concerns over false information
The UK competition watchdog has launched a review of the artificial intelligence market, as it warned of threats from AI tools including the distribution of false or misleading information.
In an announcement that comes as global regulators increase scrutiny of the technology, the Competition and Markets Authority said it would look at the underlying systems, or foundation models, behind AI tools such as ChatGPT.
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