Australia’s Largest Telco Suffers Privacy Breach

Telstra just announced that it suffered a privacy breach which impacted 132,000 customers. The company is Australia’s largest telecommunication provider and has 18.8 million customer accounts, which is the equivalent to 3/4 of the country’s population....

Medibank system wide shutdown over weekend

Even though the hackers have moved on, the cost of the data breach is still accumulating for Medibank as they are set to shut down their IT systems, retail stores and customer contact centres this weekend to overhaul their online security. This will result in millions...

Third major Australian data breach in three months

In what looks like Australia’s third major data breach in three months, 375 gigabytes worth of employee and customer data have been stolen from Australian real estate giant LJ Hooker. The stolen information included passport scans, credit card details and loans...

AirAsia Poor Network Organisation spared it from future attacks

What’s worse? Being hit by a ransomware attack? or being hit by a ransonware attack with the hacker group telling the world that your network organisation is too chaotic that they did not do as much as they normally do. And that they are completely unwilling to...

Compromised Android Platform Certificates Used to Sign Malware

Google recently made public that a number of digital certificates used by device manufactures were recently compromised and used to sign malicious Android apps. This would allow the malicious apps to be granted with software permissions that it shouldn’t have,...

Eufy Doorbell camera Leaking User Content to Cloud

The popular Eufy video doorbell has been caught uploading video capture thumbnails to their cloud server even when cloud storage is disabled and local only storage settings are turned on. Security consultant, Paul Moore, recently published a video showcasing the...