Oct 17, 2023 | Podcast
Equifax has been fined £11 million by Britian’s financial watchdog for the 2017 cyber security breach. Equifax suffered one of the largest cyber security breach in 2017 which affected 147.9 million US consumers. The UK arm of the credit reporting firm, Equifax...
Oct 16, 2023 | Podcast
The Queensland government has introduced legislation for data breach notification, joining NSW as the only other state to introduce such a scheme. There was a review done over a year ago into the culture and accountability of the Queensland government. One of the...
Oct 13, 2023 | Podcast
Patches have been released for two security vulnerabilities affecting the curl data transfer library, one of which could potentially result in code execution. Earlier this week, the maintainers of curl announced that two vulnerabilities would be announced later during...
Oct 12, 2023 | Podcast
Thousands of WordPress websites have been compromised by attackers exploiting a vulnerability in a popular plugin. More than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised and infected by multiple Balada Injector campaigns. The campaign exploited a known...
Oct 11, 2023 | Podcast
A popular D-Link Wi-Fi range extender device is susceptible to remote command injection and there is currently no fix available. Security researchers have discovered that DAP-X1860 Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Range Extender device from D-Link is vulnerable to a command injection...
Oct 10, 2023 | Podcast
A new Linux vulnerability, known as the Looney Tunables impacts most Linux distributions and allows attackers to gain administrative root privileges. The vulnerability, discovered by security researchers, is due to a weakness in the GNU C Library’s ld.so dynamic...
