Apr 19, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) says Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022. This is an 80% increase over the total losses recorded in 2021. Investment scams accounted for the most losses, at $1.5 billion. This is followed...
Apr 18, 2023 | Podcast
Four corners from the ABC news just published an article about their conversation with one of the hackers who’s worked for the cyber criminal gangs behind some of Australia’s largest data breaches. When asked whether he see Australia as an attractive...
Apr 17, 2023 | Podcast
Google has just released an emergency Chrome security update to address a zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is assigned CVE-2023-2033 and is a type confusion weakness in the Chrome JavaScript Engine. It affects the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The...
Apr 14, 2023 | Podcast
With web applications being a target of numerous cyber attacks, the SANS Internet Storm Center has released an article sharing the three must have security HTTP headers for controlling many easily preventable vulnerabilities. The first is HTTP Strict Transport...
Apr 13, 2023 | Podcast
The Tasmanian state government has recently suffered a data breach. The hackers targeted a third-party transfer software used by the Tasmanian Department of Education, Children and Young People. Initially the Science and Technology Minister said that it appeared that...
Apr 12, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial has announced that they have received a ransom demand from the criminals behind the cyber-attack. The company disclosed last month that they had suffered a data breach which exposed 14 million customer records. The breach had originated from a...
