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]]>SYDNEY: The NSW Cyber Security Innovation Node (NSWCSIN) and TAFE NSW have launched an online cyber security training program comprising nine industry-aligned online training modules designed to meet current and emerging industry needs.
Officials say it will provide new and existing workers with the specialist skills they need to succeed in the growing cyber security sector.
Each module will cost between $100 and $200 and counts towards completion of the Certificate IV in Cyber Security. TAFE NSW is taking enrolments at https://www.tafensw.edu.au/cyber-security.
TAFE NSW head of technology and business services skillspoint, Geethani Nair, said the micro-learning modules drew on TAFE NSW’s nationally accredited Certificate IV in Cyber Security qualification and had been identified in collaboration with NSWCSIN.
“These modules will provide skills across a range of topics including detecting, protecting and responding to cyber-attacks, she said. “They are perfect for those looking to retrain, upskill and set themselves apart in the workplace.”
This initiative is the second phase of the NSWCSIN Cyber Security Talent Accelerator program designed to future-proof Australia’s workforce and meet the needs of industry. – Stuart Corner
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]]>LONDON/WASHINGTON: A little-known Indian IT company has offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 e-mail accounts over seven years.
According to Reuters, New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the US.
BellTroX’s hacks in the US currently under investigation by law enforcement agencies.
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]]>“We are hitting back through the Australian Signals Directorate, who have already successfully disrupted activities from foreign criminals by disabling their infrastructure and blocking their access to stolen information,” Reynolds says.
And she adds: “Some of these cybercriminals have even posed as health officials in an attempt to exploit vulnerable Australians, by infecting their computers with malware and stealing their private information.”
ASD director-general Rachel Noble – also quoted in Reynolds’ presser – warns that she expects the cyber crims to continue targeting Australians via “COVID-19 themed malicious activities”.
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]]>Senate president Scott Ryan yesterday told a Senate estimates hearing that, after reading the “rather technical” report for the first time on Friday, he is now awaiting a “plain language briefing” from cyber security experts before providing an update to the Senate.
Ryan said, however, that it is unlikely that an unclassified version of the report will be released.
“But I will say at this point that there are obviously implications for our future security as a parliament, as well as our cooperation with various agencies,” Ryan said.
“I am not convinced that publishing the report I have received, even in a redacted form, would be helpful,” the Senate president added.
The cyberattack, which extended to the networks of the Liberal, Labor and National parties, forced more than 4000 parliamentarians and staff, as well as the Department of Parliamentary Services, to reset their passwords.
Despite claims that no data had been accessed at the time of the attack, an Australian Signals Directorate assessment has since revealed that a limited amount of non-confidential data was in fact stolen by a state-sponsored actor.
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]]>Austrade and the Defence Department’s elite Defence Science Technology Group, have both suffered significant cyber infiltrations by hackers based in China, according to Four Corners.
Four Corners has claimed that Australian satellite company Newsat, which went into administration last year, was so comprehensively infiltrated that its entire network had to be rebuilt in secret.
The Prime Minister’s cyber security adviser, Alastair MacGibbon, told the program the Government is “attacked on a daily basis” but declined to elaborate. “We don’t talk about all the breaches that occur,” he said. ”
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden, a former US National Security Agency head, said Australia and the US should harden up their defences to protect their data.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Canberra denied China had conducted any cyber espionage against Australian interests, calling such allegations “totally groundless” and “false clichés”. “Like other countries, China suffers from serious cyber attacks and is one of the major victims of hacking attacks in the world,” he said.
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]]>It that rate continues, Australia can expect to see more than 500 breaches reported across Australia by the end of the year. But that number could rise significantly as more organisations come to grips with the new regime – and discover the huge penalties for not reporting.
The 63 reports, lodged with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) contrast with just 114 breaches reported in the entire 2016–17 financial year, when reporting was voluntary.
The numbers for the first six weeks of the new regime, which began on February 22, showed that health services providers were responsible for the single largest number of notifications (15), followed by businesses that supply “legal, accounting and management services”.
Organisations in the finance, education and not-for-profit sectors were also implicated.
However not all breaches were instigated by cyber criminals, the OIAC has revealed: human error in fact was listed as the most common cause.
“The majority of data breaches reported to the OAIC involved ‘contact information’, such as an individual’s name, e-mail address, home address or phone number,” the OAIC said. “This is distinct from ‘identity information’, which refers to information used to confirm an individual’s identity, such as driver licence numbers and passport numbers.”
However, some entities also reported data breaches that involved individuals’ tax file numbers, financial details, such as bank account or credit card numbers, and even health information.
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]]>Australia’s Cyber Security minister Dan Tehan told a National Press Club luncheon meeting yesterday that plans for the reserve are well under way and will seek to enlist workers from technology outfits, universities, banks and telecommunications companies.
Like military Army Reserve members, they would receive a tax-free Army salary, and be required to work between 20-100 days a year.
This would largely follow the pattern set by the UK’s Cyber Reserve program, which launched in 2013 and now employs 500 computer specialists.
Tehan was briefed on the British program when he visited London last month.
Presenting the Australian Cyber Security Centre annual threat report, he said yesterday that “cyber espionage is alive and well and it’s something that we all need to be conscious about”.
Over the course of 2016-17, reports to the ACSC indicated losses of more than $20 million related to business e-mail trickery, more than double the $8.6 million nicked in 2015-16, Tehan said.
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