Ransomware attack blocks access to health systems in Victoria
A number of hospitals and health services in Victoria have had their access to systems blocked by a ransomware attack that took place on Monday.
A number of hospitals and health services in Victoria have had their access to systems blocked by a ransomware attack that took place on Monday.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will be required to review its privacy and data retention policies under threat of court action from the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner.
Yahoo, now part of Verizon Communications Inc, said on Tuesday that an investigation showed all 3 billion of its user accounts were affected in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the largest breach in history.
Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.
EMC has squirrelled away US$81.3 million in reserve to cover the cost of customer remediation in response to the attack on RSA’s SecurID system it revealed in March.
Iranian internet users whose security may have been compromised by the forged Google.com digital certificate could number in the hundreds of thousands. An interim report (PDF) commissioned by DigiNotar, the certification authority (CA) at the centre of the hacking incident, also reveals lax security at the Dutch firm.
Telecom [ASX:TEL] has been fined $12 million by the High Court of New Zealand after the Commerce Commission alleged the telco had breached the <i>Commerce Act</i> through high-speed data pricing.