In Golden Taste Investment Pty Ltd v Laurence & Ors [2016] VSC 250 Derham AsJ considered the plaintiff’s application for summary judgment under section 63 of the Civil Procedure Act 2010.

FACTS

The plaintiff is the master franchisee for the Cacao Green and Red Mango franchises for Australia and operates retail stores in Victoria selling frozen yogurt and coffee products [2].

The first defendant (‘Daniel’) was a director and Read the rest of this entry »

Cabcharge has had a data breach.  This was identified by Riskbased Security, a cyber security company based in Virginia, USA, while doing some research.  The researchers notified Cabcharge who took action to remedy the problem but did not reply to the notification and did not notify its customers of the exposure of data.  That data identified by Riskbased security included Read the rest of this entry »

The Privacy Commissioner has done what he does best.  Another speech.  This time for the launch of Privacy Awareness Week.

The speech Read the rest of this entry »

Data breaches are equal opportunity problems, they affect both the private sector and government agencies. With data breaches of government sites the problem is not so much economic as economic and, often times, political.  In the United States cyber breaches at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that safeguards bank deposits, has caused both political and economic problems for the agency and raised the ire of Congress. In April it was reported that a cyber breach affected 44,000 of the FDIC’s customers which revealed inadequate security controls.  Even though the breach was Read the rest of this entry »

Cyber attacks on banks are nothing new. Banks not surprisingly generally have better cybersecurity systems than most organisations, though not universally so.  One form of attack against banks (and here) is by means of malicious software, also known as malware. Malware is a regularly occurring problem with businesses and organisations of all types such as accountants, American Dental Association, government bodies, hotels and small businesses.

The global financial network SWIFT has issued a warning about a new very sophisticated malware threat which is obviously designed to exploit a vulnerability but has Read the rest of this entry »

The Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has imposed another swingeing fine for a breach of the Data Protection Act, on this occasion an NHS Trust publishing the national insurance numbers, dates of birth, religious beliefs and sexual orientation of 6,574 members of its staff on its web site.  As a result the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £185,000.  While the breach was egregious it was inadvertent. Even so, the distinction between inadvertent and deliberate goes more to penalty rather than Read the rest of this entry »

The former High Court justice Michael Kirby has had a very long history with privacy and data protection issues.  He was Read the rest of this entry »

Gumtree has had a data breach of indeterminate proportions last week according to the Hackers steal Gumtree users’ personal details, Gumtree ‘fesses up to breach and personal information leak and Australian Gumtree users targeted in hacking attack, with personal details stolen.

The Government website, Staysmartonline has also highlighted the potential of phishing attacks now Read the rest of this entry »

One of the biggest challenges in privacy and data protection is having staff who use the data being properly trained and applying that training properly.  Having Read the rest of this entry »

The Information Commissioner has fined Kent Police £80,000 for providing the data contained in a woman’s mobile phone to her ex partner’s solicitor.  The solicitor disclosed that information to his client, the woman’s ex partner.  That person happened to be a member of the Kent Police.

On the technical side the case highlights Read the rest of this entry »