Jan 2, 2023 | Podcast
The popular python package, PyTorch, has been hit by a dependency confusion attack. Admins for the machine learning framework identified the attacks and determined that the window of attack is between December 25th to 30th 2022. Their recommendation for users who...
Dec 30, 2022 | Podcast
Parental control apps aren’t the answer to protecting your kids online and there might be a hidden cost to using them. Researchers from the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab recently discovered server vulnerabilities in popular parental control apps for the Android...
Dec 29, 2022 | Podcast
Australia’s second largest university in the state of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology, has been hit with a ransomware attack. The malware is believed to be the newer Royal ransomware and it is causing the university campus printers to spit...
Dec 28, 2022 | Podcast
The Guardian newspaper has self reported that they have been hit by a serious IT incident which they believe is a ransomware attack. The impact is mostly with disruptions to behind the scene services and they believe that online and print publishing is largely...
Dec 27, 2022 | Podcast
In a move to help strengthen the open source third party supply chain, GitHub will be mandating all users who contribute code on the platform to enable two factor authentication by the end of 2023. This helps increase the security of the accounts by requiring an...
Dec 26, 2022 | Podcast
LastPass revealed that attackers had stolen customer vault data. Fortunately the stolen vaults had been encrypted using the customer’s master key, which is never known to LastPass. However the attackers might attempt to brute force the passwords to gain access...
