Washup from Friday's Telstra data breach

We don't yet know why, but we sure know what was breached.  60,000 user accounts containing detailed of their accounts (including passwords) and the services used.  The Privacy Commissioner is investigating.
 

85% of Australians would stop dealing with an organisation after a data breach (maybe)

So says the latest world-wide survey by Unisys that takes a bi-annual look at the security attitudes of people around the world.
 

Have you been pwned? Now you can check

With so many breaches being reported on a better-than-daily basis, it is becoming impossible to know whether the 'lads' have our authentication details.  Here's a way to check.
 

Sony falls victim to ANOTHER simple SQL injection attack

This is becoming something of a broken record.  Did any part of Sony have a clue about protecting their on-line assets?
 

Add Dell Australia to the list of Epsilon victims

Yesterday afternoon, a very large number of Australians received an email from Dell advising them that their name and email address were lost in the same intrusion that has affected a large number of companies world wide.
 

From Epsilon to Omega in one easy step

On April 1st, US-based Epsilon Interactive (a major email marketing firm) revealed that their system had been penetrated and customer data, specifically names and email addresses had been stolen.  Is it a case of so-what? Or what-now?
 

Lush breach shows Australian privacy laws are a toothless tiger

Despite storing the personal data of its customers without informing them via its privacy statement, the Australian privacy Commissioner has no ability to impose any penalty whatsoever upon Lush Cosmetics.
 

The Lush breach - what happened?

Following a discussion with a representative of Lush Cosmetics, more information is available regarding Monday's web site breach.
 

Lush Cosmetics Australian website hacked

The Australian and New Zealand shopping site of cosmetics retailer Lush has been hacked just weeks after a similar breach occurred on the UK site.  Credit card details and other intimate information of shoppers have been exposed.
 

PCI Compliance does give protection against data breaches

Based on a sample of 200, Verizon Business determined that those organisations suffering some kind of data breach were 50% less likely to be PCI compliant.