Tag: Optus
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Optus CEO resigns following service outage debacle
The Australian telco’s CFO has taken over as interim chief, while outgoing CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin highlighted her session with the …
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Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret
Optus had argued in court that the dominant purpose of the report was to assess the legal risk to the company. It claimed Deloitte’s …
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What caused the Optus outage: Echoes of FB’s ’21 fall
Investigations into what caused the Optus outage are pointing to potential similarities with the infamous Facebook disruption from two …
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Netcraft acquires Australian online brand protection provider FraudWatch
Cybercrime detection company Netcraft Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Australian online brand protection provider FraudWatch …
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Optus data breach prompts class action
Major Australian telecommunications provider Optus has been hit with a class action lawsuit involving more than 100,000 current and former …
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Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermind
Perhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su’s name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed …
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Scammer who targeted Optus hack victims avoids jail over ‘unsophisticated’ crime
Dennis Su, 19 at the time, pleaded guilty in November to two counts of using equipment connected to a network to commit a serious offence. …
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Cybercrime in Australia has been on the rise for years, but Optus and Medibank have been wake-up calls
Experts say the recent prominence of data breaches is just companies being more forthcoming and the media more focused on reporting them …
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Optus data breach: customers yet to be reimbursed for passport replacements
The federal government has not yet finalised a process with Optus for customers affected by its recent data breach to have their passports …
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Census website struck by a billion attempted cyber-attacks, Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals
“In the event, everything ran smoothly even though there were slightly less than one billion cyber-attacks on our census digital system …
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Australia kicks off investigation into Optus data breach
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s scrutiny will focus on whether the Singtel-owned mobile operator, as well as its …
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Optus data breach prompts pincer movement of twin regulatory probes
Australian carrier Optus’s recent data breach will be investigated by two regulators, the double trouble likely an indicator of the …
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