The Cyber Capabilities Of Some Cyber Criminals Are Pretty Impressive And Really Worrying.

As a really great public service the Australian National University has made public its review of a major data breach is suffered beginning about a year ago.Here is some coverage of the findings:ANU cyber attack began with email to senior staff memberAndrew Tillett Political CorrespondentOct 2, 2019 — 4.15pmThe Australian National University's investigation into the hacking of students' personal data has failed to identify a culprit or exonerate suspects but the nature of the data stolen suggests fraud may have been a motive.While some in the security community believed China was behind the c yber attack, given past form and ANU's rich trove of sensitive data and research, the university will only describe the perpetrator as a "sophisticated actor"."It's very difficult to come up with any definitive conclusion, and speculation I think is potentially harmful," vice-chancellor Brian Schmid t said.The hackers got away with only 700 megabytes of staff and student data – a compact disc's...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs