Government agencies investigated by Commonwealth Ombudsman. Australia’s Commonwealth Ombudsman has found that Government agencies have not adequately kept the records relating to agencies’ use of stored communications and telecommunications data, as needed under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (the Act). The Ombudsman can investigate complaints about actions and…
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There was no indication thus far that Singapore’s CII and Government systems have been adversely affected by the SolarWinds breach. The Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran has assured the Singapore Government that the SolarWinds attack didn’t affect any departmental or enterprise networks. According to Minister Iswaran said there…
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of Monetary Authority Singapore answers data protection questions. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of Monetary Authority Singapore answers the implications of consumer data monopoly by firms; how is the personal data of users of digital payments being protected when…
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Board directors rate cybersecurity second-highest source of risk for the enterprise. By 2025, 40 per cent of boards of directors will have a dedicated cybersecurity committee overseen by a qualified board member, up from less than 10 per cent today, according to Gartner. This is one of several organisational changes Gartner expects…
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In the region damage to critical infrastructure concerned organisations. Over the past 12 months 18 per cent of APAC organisations suffered seven or more attacks infiltrating their networks or systems over the past year, and the majority (81 per cent) suffered one or more attacks. Over two thirds (76 per…
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Orders compensation payable by Home Affairs for breaching detainees’ privacy. The Department of Home Affairs (formerly the Department of Immigration and Border Protection) has been found to have interfered with the privacy of 9,251 detainees in immigration detention by mistakenly releasing their personal information. Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner…
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Digitalisation is an integral part for its newly released, with IT supporting vital transformation. Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) has announced Olav Spiegel as its newly appointed CIO, effectively from January 2021. Spiegel joins AGCS from Allianz SE where he was responsible for developing the modern workplace strategy for…
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Australian corporate regulator acknowledges cyberattack on its servers in January. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the independent commission of the Australian Government has announced it was made aware of a cyber security incident affecting a server used by ASIC, on January 15, 2021. This incident was related to…
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Stakeholders told which of their files on the File Transfer Application were downloaded illegally during the breach. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua investigation into the malicious illegal breach of a third-party file sharing application has significantly progressed. Governor Adrian Orr said the investigation remains the…
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Sponsored content: Thursday, 12th November 2020, Asia Pacific If you were to ask any cybersecurity professional about the most alarming malware trends today, chances are ‘ransomware’ would be one of the first things they would be keen to talk about. This type of malware can aptly be described less as…
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