We deliver Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support payments and services.
Social Security provides financial protection for our nation’s people, supporting more than 64 million individuals and families. With retirement, disability, and survivors benefits, Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in our nation's history. We are there throughout life’s journey, helping secure today and tomorrow. We are one of the largest independent agencies in government, with over 58,000 team members throughout the country. Our talented workforce includes employees who serve customers directly, as well as those who support their work in diverse fields. Through compassion and dedication, our team members help promote the economic security of the country. They are the heart of our agency, providing high-quality, personalized service to people in their communities, nationwide, and even living abroad. Our workforce is our greatest strength at SSA. We place high priority on developing, engaging, and empowering our team members. Through career development programs, our team members have access to a wide range of training and professional development opportunities. We rely on our team members’ feedback to improve how we administer our programs and to create an environment of trust and cooperation across our organization. We also offer an excellent benefits package to our team members. To learn more about a career with SSA, visit SSA.gov/careers.
Security & Compliance Standards Overview
Services Australia has 53.85% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.
Social Security Administration has 53.85% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.
Services Australia cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries
Social Security Administration cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries
WeGIA is an open source Web Manager for Institutions with a focus on Portuguese language users. Versions 3.5.4 and below contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the /WeGIA/html/geral/configurar_senhas.php endpoint. The application does not sanitize user-controlled data before rendering it inside the employee selection dropdown. The application retrieves employee names from the database and injects them directly into HTML <option> elements without proper escaping. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.5.
ZITADEL is an open-source identity infrastructure tool. Versions 4.0.0-rc.1 through 4.7.0 are vulnerable to DOM-Based XSS through the Zitadel V2 logout endpoint. The /logout endpoint insecurely routes to a value that is supplied in the post_logout_redirect GET parameter. As a result, unauthenticated remote attacker can execute malicious JS code on Zitadel users’ browsers. To carry out an attack, multiple user sessions need to be active in the same browser, however, account takeover is mitigated when using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Passwordless authentication. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.1.
ZITADEL is an open-source identity infrastructure tool. Versions 4.7.0 and below are vulnerable to an unauthenticated, full-read SSRF vulnerability. The ZITADEL Login UI (V2) treats the x-zitadel-forward-host header as a trusted fallback for all deployments, including self-hosted instances. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to force the server to make HTTP requests to arbitrary domains, such as internal addresses, and read the responses, enabling data exfiltration and bypassing network-segmentation controls. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.1.
NiceGUI is a Python-based UI framework. Versions 3.3.1 and below are vulnerable to directory traversal through the App.add_media_files() function, which allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the server filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.0.
FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions are vulnerable to authentication bypass when the authentication type is set to "webserver." When providing an Authorization header with an arbitrary value, a session is associated with the target user regardless of valid credentials. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.44 and 17.0.23.
