Complete Lock Screen Bypass on Google Pixel devices

If you own a Google Pixel, make sure you have installed the November security updates. Otherwise your device is exposed to a Lock Screen bypass vulnerability. Here’s how you can reproduce that vulnerability. Step 1, lock the device. You can do this by entering...

Medibank Hackers Mysteriously Disappears

Early this week, the site on the dark web that were used to post the Medibank breaches has mysteriously disappeared. The hackers had so far made 5 sets of data releases, exposing 2700 customer records. With the site going offline, it has disrupted the release and...

Should you pay the data breach ransom?

When an organisation suffers a data breach, should they pay the ransom demands? This has been a hot topic in recent weeks with the Medibank breach. That breach affected 9.7 million customers and is the worst hack in Australian corporate history. The company had...

Mastodon users vulnerable to password-stealing attacks

Since Twitter’s recent acquisition, many users have been looking for a Twitter replacement. This has resulted in a growing popularity in the decentralised micro-blogging platform Mastodon. With its increase popularity, it is also getting more scrutiny. Port...