Malware presents as one of the biggest threats to Australia, with cybercrime costing roughly one billion dollars per years. This is projected to rise still with cybercrime being increasingly endorsed on criminal market platforms and becoming increasingly complex.
A poultry worker, recently fired for being intoxicated at work, has won an unfair dismissal case against her former employer. Despite being seemingly intoxicated at work, sleeping on shift, and unintentionally causing the death of up to 50 chickens, Heidi Cannon successfully won her case against the poultry company who were ordered to pay her compensation and superannuation in recompense for the decidedly unfair termination of her employment.
A common misconception amongst Australian Food and Beverage businesses, who don’t consider themselves to be online organisations, is that they are immune to cyber-attacks. However, the 2014 Trustwave Global Security Report found that 18% of all cyber-attacks in 2013 involved Food and Beverage companies, second only to retail merchants (at 35%). Our digital business landscape is rapidly changing. The vast…
A suspected outbreak of salmonella has left 250 Brisbane conference-goers ill.
Michael Nickols, the former operator of The Champion Bakery located at Beverley in Adelaide has been fined $160,000 for numerous food safety breaches.
The Copa Brazilian Churrasco Restaurant has been ordered to pay out two children over a mass food poisoning incident last year on top of an estimated $1m in payouts to other victims.
World’s largest companies say water problems will result in a substantive change in their business, operations.
Bera Foods has paid a penalty of $10,200 following the issue of an infringement notice by the ACCC.
Eggs produced in NSW must now be stamped with a unique identifying mark to improve traceability.
If the catastrophe that has rocked Patties Foods over the past few weeks doesn’t prompt every company in the food and beverage industry to seriously consider their exposure to risk, then I’m inclined to say that nothing will. That is, of course, until a disaster strikes in home territory; but by then it will be too late. The outbreak of Hepatitis A,…
