The Australian government is close to introducing standards to shore up the security of the down under country’s fast-growing solar market amid reports that Chinese state-sponsored hackers might target internet-connected solar inverters and cause blackouts. Government and private sector researchers have raised concerns about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of rooftop inverters, which convert the energy collected […]
Described as insecure direct object reference (IDOR) issues, they allow threat actors to read or tamper with sensitive data via application programming interface (API) requests that include the identifier of a valid user. These requests are successful because the authentication or authorization of the user submitting the request is not properly validated, the three agencies […]
Australia has been the victim of damaging cyberattacks in the latter half of this year, with high-profile incidents impacting businesses across critical sectors such as telecoms, healthcare, and government. The impacts of some of these attacks have been rolling on for months, with new details and further information about data breached from the incidents suffered […]
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