Hi there,

A security breach impacting up to one million people is always going to be serious. When it’s in a country with a population of less than five million– yes, we’re looking at you New Zealand – well, that’s more than 20 percent of the population potentially affected. And when it affects a health organisation (albeit, not actual health records) the alarm bells ring even louder.

The breach of Tū Ora Compass Health Primary Health Organisation, which also affects PHOs it has relationships with, is yet another reminder of the value of data and its protection.

The 'stress testing' that is now being conducted around other data sets may help others avoid the stress that Tū Ora has suffered.

In other news:

Fujitsu brings tech, business and academia together at Syd DX centre
"Your Password Has Been Hacked": Chrome’s new hack monitor
ANU whodunnit? We still don’t know
Tech titans big buy up of AI startups

And carrying on the theme of data protection, we take a look at the misconceptions around who is actually responsible for securing your data in this cloud-first world. A senior practitioner gives some free practical advice on what protections you need to put in place. Tū Ora (et al) take note!

Enjoy the read,

Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.com.au

CYBERSECURITY

NZ health sector on notice after major data breach

Stress testing after one million records exposed…

Monitoring of the security of NZ health organisation’s systems has been stepped up with cyber ‘stress testing’ underway after data for up to one million people was exposed in a massive breach.

“It was our responsibility to keep people’s data safe and we’ve failed to do that.”

[Read more]

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Fujitsu launches ‘Digital Transformation Centre’ in Sydney

Tokyo, Osaka, Munich, London, New York and now Sydney. Fujitsu doubles down on its collaboration projects…

Fujitsu has launched a Sydney Digital Transformation Centre, with promises of inspiration, innovation, and hopefully, commercialisation, for Aussie businesses' unsolvable business problems.

There’s lots to be gained from bringing technology, business, and academia together.

[Read more]

PASSWORD SECURITY

New Chrome extension reveals all your compromised passwords

Google aims to plug password leaks with browser-based hacked credential checker…

In the age of the data breach, it seems that everybody, everywhere has had their credentials accessed by a nefarious third party at some point.

Be horrified, then spend the day updating compromised passwords.

[Read more]

EMAIL BREACH

ANU outlines methods behind latest attack

Interaction not required in ANU spearphishing attack…

A ‘sophisticated spearphishing email’ which didn’t require user interaction was behind the ANU breach, but the university still can't say which records were stolen, or by whom.

Despite only being previewed, the interaction-less attack email garnered credentials.

[Read more]

STARTUPS

AI startups in acquisition frenzy

Big-tech targets the next big thing in AI…

The tech titans are splashing the cash when it comes to the industry’s latest fancy, AI, with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon gobbling up startups at a record pace.

“AI is more profound than electricity or fire.”

[Read more]

CLOUD SECURITY

Data is your digital lifeblood. But who is responsible for securing it?

There’s a big misconception around security that threatens to trip up many companies moving to the cloud…

Cloud providers pour resource into security, but responsibility for protecting the virtual machines on those servers and the applications they host, lies with the individual customer.

If you don’t protect your own users, applications and network infrastructure, you are setting yourself up for a meltdown in the cloud.

[Read more]

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