Australia will have a mandatory data breach notification scheme in place within the year after several aborted attempts, following the passage of legislation through the senate today. The Labor and Liberal parties today united to pass the government's Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) … [Read more...] about Australia finally has mandatory data breach notification
An increase in online scams and frauds reported to authorities in the leadup to Christmas has reinforced the importance of safe online security practices. The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) received 2,608 reports of online scams and fraud from 1 December to 21 December … [Read more...] about Australian Government My Guide helps minimise your personal online security risk: Alert Priority Moderate
What Are They and How Do I Deal With Them? CryptoLocker and CryptoWall are examples of ransomware, a trojan than locks up your files and threatens to destroy the key unless you pay a ransom to enable the files to be unlocked again. You are given only a limited time to hand over the ransom fee, … [Read more...] about Would your business stand up to a Ransom attack?