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News round-up Dec 2020 – Escalation in ransomware tactics, world-first privacy settlement and more

1 December 2020

For what appears to be the first time, a privacy settlement has dictated the need for an organisation to consider gender-based privacy risks. We look at the implications of the settlement in this roundup. Believe or not, there’s been yet another escalation in ransomware extortion tactics, while we look at why the Government’s critical infrastructure security bill is causing tech companies to get hot under the collar.  

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News round-up Nov 2020 – Privacy Act review, ICO fines British Airways £20m over data breach and more

5 November 2020

Privacy is well and truly in the frame this month – not least because of the Government’s review of the Privacy Act. It’s a big deal and we’ll have a bit to say about it – starting with our summary below. As the number of COVID-19 cases ease, attention is now also shifting towards the privacy provisions of COVID-19 check-in services. And turning to cyber, if you felt ransomware wasn’t nasty enough, attackers have dug deep and found more evil to draw on.   

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News round-up Oct 2020 — Update on ServiceNSW databreach, Twitter upping its security game, and more

1 October 2020

It’s in the nature of this game that there’ll always breaches and bungles, so increasingly it matters how you respond. And in our eyes, some recent response actions are worth commending. The NSW Government opened up on how it might have prevented the Service NSW breach, while Twitter laid out how it is upping its internal security game after a hack in July. We also explore if NAB’s step into the world of bug bounties sets a new bar for security maturity.

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News round-up July 2020 — European court decision on international data transfers, software vulnerabilities, and more

31 July 2020

This month saw some big plays in the world of privacy – most notably the striking down by a European Court of a mechanism for international data transfers. We look at the implications for Australia organisations coming out of the judgement. This month we’re also reminded of the inherent vulnerability of software via stories about backdoors in Chinese tax software, a flood of critical patches released for popular enterprise software products and, of course, more yarns about ransomware.

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News round-up June 2020 — PM’s cyber strategy announcement, ransomware attacks and email scammers

30 June 2020

“Imagine if we could get the Prime Minister to yell ‘cyber’?”
Security leaders preparing to go cap-in-hand for FY21 budgets could only have dreamed of the platform their portfolios would get this month. In this month’s round-up we take a look at the PM’s announcement, and watch as ransomware and business email compromise jostle for the mantle of most damaging cyber threat.

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News round-up May 2020 — Ransomware formally registered as business risk and security report on cyber attackers

31 May 2020

In our latest round-up, we get a fresh angle on some familiar threats. The rise of ransomware over recent years has seen it elevated as a formally registered business risk, while new research seeks to explain why phishing continues to work so well. A new security report also gives us insight into what’s motivating cyber attackers, and into one of the fastest growing reasons that data breaches are occurring.

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Towards a trustworthy COVIDSafe app

1 May 2020

elevenM Principal Melanie Marks has joined other leading privacy experts in a submission to the Australian Government on what is required of new federal legislation that will govern the new

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