{"id":3675,"date":"2021-01-26T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:30:28","slug":"australias-securities-regulator-says-server-hit-by-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2021\/01\/26\/australias-securities-regulator-says-server-hit-by-cybersecurity-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s securities regulator says server hit by cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Australia\u2019s securities regulator has confirmed a cybersecurity breach at a server it used to transfer files including credit licence applications where some information may have been viewed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s securities regulator has confirmed a cybersecurity breach at a server it used to transfer files including credit licence applications where some information may have been viewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) said it became aware of the incident although it does not appear the credit licence forms or attachments were downloaded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the regulator said: \u201cWhile the investigation is ongoing, it appears that there is some risk that some limited information may have been viewed by the threat actor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, said<strong>: <\/strong>&#8220;The breach is a good reminder that all organisations need to have good monitoring and threat detection controls in place so that any intrusion can be quickly detected and responded to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving strong security controls is not optional for any organisation, regardless of size, vertical, or type of data. If any system is accessible, it will be targeted. Therefore, it&#8217;s important that cybersecurity is embedded within the culture of an organisation through all systems, processes, and employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer, Cybereason, said: &#8220;Discovery of the breach at ASIC is a reminder that there is no such thing as anyone being above an attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDetails matter. Transparency matters. Process, clarity and putting those at risk first matter the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s securities regulator has confirmed a cybersecurity breach at a server it used to transfer files including credit licence applications where some information may have been viewed. Australia\u2019s securities regulator has confirmed a cybersecurity breach at a server it used to transfer files including credit licence applications where some information may have been viewed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,55,53,44,54],"tags":[76,368,174,1550,1552,1551],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-industry-verticals-government","category-oceania","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-australia","tag-cybereason","tag-cybersecurity","tag-knowbe4","tag-securities-regulator","tag-server"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}