Parental Control Apps Come Packaged with Malware

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...

Cyber Attack on Australian Universities

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...

Guardian Newspaper Hit by Ransomware Attack

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...

GitHub to require 2FA for all user by end of 2023

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...

LastPass suffers second data breach this year

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...

Behind the scenes of Optus response’s to their data breach

The Australian Financial Review wrote an article providing a behind the scenes look at how the Optus data breach unfolded for the company and their CEO. This was the first of a number of major data breaches which eventually lead to changes to the Australian Privacy...