Australia
Facebook dragged to court by Australia over data privacy
Australian data watchdog has dragged Facebook to court for allegedly sharing personal details of more than 300,000 people with the controversial, now defunct form Cambridge Analytica. Australian Information Commissioner has given the social media a specified time frame to respond to its federal lawsuit and if Mark Zuckerberg’s led company fails to respond, there is […]
Mexico and Australian Governments tackling Cyber Attacks
Mexico’s economic ministry has made it official that it is has detected malevolent server activity on its servers on Sunday this week. But assured that no sensitive information was compromised in the incident and all security measures were beefed up to prevent such incidents in the future. Readers of Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify a […]
Google trending news posts related to Cloud Security and Cybersecurity
Cloud Security Oracle has finally decided to make its business hold strong in Cloud Security by announcing new services at the annual Open World Conference held in San Francisco this week. The latest set of service portfolio is intended to cut down the complexity in configuring cloud security by automating most of the security processes […]
Cyber Attack on Satellites could spell doom to Australia
The Australian Defense Force (ADF) is searching for ways to protect its space assets from cyber-attacks launched by adversaries and that’s because they like any other nation rely heavily on the space stations for weapons guidance, joint command, and control of military artillery and space-based intelligence. Moreover, as nations like China and Russia are emerging […]
Australia to ban mobile phone usage in schools from next year
Australia is all set to implement a nationwide ban on mobile phone usage in schools from next year and is also intending to fund the purchase of new lockers or lockable pouches on a partial note. To start with, the country has decided to first start the ban in a phase-wise manner from the state […]
Cyber attack news trending on Google
Colorado-based Regis University has reported that a cyberattack on its digital assets has led to the shut down of internet on the entire campus since Tuesday last week. And a source from the campus reports that the email accounts of the University staff and students, online programs, and class schedules remain still inaccessible. Regis University […]
Cyber Attack leaks bank details and signatures of Australian College Student Parents
Nagle Catholic College(NCC) shortly known as Nagle, an Independent Roman Catholic Co-Educational School located in Western Australia says that bank details and signatures of parents belonging to the day schools students were leaked in a highly sophisticated cyber attack. Rob Crothers, the Principal of Nagle confirmed the news and added that his school was a […]
Facebook Cyber Attack impacts 110,000 Australians
Facebook internal documents suggest that more than 110,000 Australians were impacted by a cyber attack launched in September last year on FB servers. The attack is said to have leaked personal info of more than 60,589 users from Australia giving access to details such as their movements, phone number, most recent check-ins, DOB, Education, work […]
Cyber Attack on Toyota Car Maker
A few hours ago, Toyota Australia has released an official statement stating that the digital assets of the car making company were targeted by a cyber attack recently. However, the world renowned car making company disclosed that none of its employee data or customer information was compromised in the incident. According to sources report to […]
China denies Cyber Attack on the Australian Parliament
China has strictly denied the allegations put forward by the Australian parliamentarian authorities who claimed that hackers from the said region tried to break into the computer network of their parliament last week, by targeting a federal database in Canberra. Speaking to the media, Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for Chinese Foreign affairs ministry said that […]
