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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2022
> Well-known independent telecommunications consultant Paul Budde says while Optus has bear a lion's share of the blame for the recent massive data breach, the government was not totally off the hook.
> "As with so many policies there has been a serious lack of vision from the government and therefore also no clear strategy attached to it," he told iTWire on Tuesday. "There are a dozen or so initiatives that are not aligned and sometimes conflicting with each other."
> Optus announced the breach on 22 September. However, only last evening did the company specify the numbers affected, with a total of 2.1 million taking a hit.
> An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians (but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent).
> It’s a weird story, and the FBI affidavit raises more questions than it answers. The employee only worked for the NSA for three weeks—which is weird in itself. I can’t figure out how he linked up with the undercover FBI agent.
> Telstra has reported a data breach, with the names and addresses of 30,000 current and former staff being posted online.
> Australia's biggest telco was in a rush to play down the leak, saying on LinkedIn that this was not due to a breach of any Telstra system.
> It appears the data was filched from workforce management software company, Pegasus, which was providing a rewards program for Telstra staff.
> Security updates have been issued by Debian (barbican), Fedora (libdxfrw, librecad, and python-oauthlib), Oracle (bind), Red Hat (bind and rh-python38-python), SUSE (bind, chromium, colord, libcroco, libgit2, lighttpd, nodejs12, python, python3, slurm, slurm_20_02, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, python-django, strongswan, and wayland).
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