Breach referred to relevant state, federal authorities and ACSC The Tasmanian Government continues to investigate a compromise of a third-party file transfer service, which may have resulted in the loss of data held by the Government. Minister for Science and Technology, Madeleine Ogilvie, said the security of government information and…
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These shorter simpler domain names will end in simply ‘.au’ Anyone with an Australian presence (including businesses, organisations, and individuals) can now register a new category of domain name, known as .au direct. These shorter simpler domain names will end in simply ‘.au’ (e.g., mybusiness.au) and will complement existing namespaces such as ‘com.au’,…
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A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability has been identified. Background / What has happened? Atlassian published a security advisory regarding a critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134) in all supported versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Exploitation of this RCE vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to…
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Abigail Bradshaw head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre talks about how the cyber security defensive mission on a standing and given it prominence. In just the last four months Australia has dealt with significant malicious cyber activity associated with SolarWinds, the Acellion File Transfer compromise, and recently the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities, as…
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