The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (the “NTIA”) has since February 15 2015 been involved in considering the privacy, transparency and accountability issues regarding the use of drones.  Through its processes it has released an Read the rest of this entry »

Linked In’s problems since its database was breached and personal information stolen in 2012 continues at a pace.  In January affected Linked In users settled their claim for $13 million.  The BBC, amongst others (eg see  Hackers selling 117 million LinkedIn passwords, Change your LinkedIn password right now), reports that Linked In IDs are now being advertised for sale. That has Read the rest of this entry »

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The Privacy Commissioner has issued a draft guide to big data and the Australian Privacy Principles.  The closing dates for submissions is 26 July 2016.

It relevantly provides Read the rest of this entry »

In Complete Equipment Solutions Pty Ltd v Tesab Engineering Limited (A Company Registered in the United Kingdom, Company No. NI026214) [2016] VSC 253  Associate Justice Randall considered the question of service. This is not a common issue in modern day jurisprudence relating to statutory demands. In this case a failure to comply with the service requirements resulted in the plaintiff’s application being dismissed.

FACTS

The plaintiff, by originating process dated 9 November 2015,  made an application under s 459G of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) to set aside a statutory demand dated 14 October 2015 [1]. The court noted, with some annoyance, that the Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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 »