It's been an interesting week in the cyber security world with a number of serious security breaches, these are the 3 security breaches from this week that you should know about.
1. Superannuation Identity Theft Fraud
The Australian Federal Police are urging people to check thier superannuation as soon as possible as an identity theft fraud syndicate operating in Australia was able to change the age on people's superannuation funds to the age of retirement and start withdrawing money.
A Melbourne woman has now been charged with 53 offended for her involvement in the syndicate.
2. PayID Data breaches
PayID is a easy and convenient way to pay other people, just pop in thier mobile number and send money (if they have PayID setup) however a lack of security from the banks mean that just typing in a random number will reveal the name of the person who owns it if the number is valid.
It therefore wouldn't be hard for someone to create a script to keep trying random numbers and recording people's names and numbers into a database.
This is what needed up happening in June with a leak of 98,000 PayID details, and in August a further 92,000 PayID details were leaked with the banks dismissing users concerns.
3. Australians Sensitive medical images left openly accessible on the internet
German security researchers who were scanning the internet have discovered millions of unprotected and openly accessible servers containing sensitive medical images including patient names and DOB.
The researchers discovered over 2 million unprotected servers in Australia alone, and no coding or tools were required to access these servers.
The worst part about these breaches is that the issues are still present, you can still use random numbers to find people's names in PayID, you can still access over 2 million unsecured servers, how long will it be before more identity theft syndicates start mining that data and stealing more people's money.
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