May 11, 2023 | Podcast
Twitter has disclosed that a security incident is causing private tweets sent to Twitter Circles to leak and be shown publicly to users outside of the Circle. Twitter Circle is a feature that was released in August 2022 and is a way for users to send tweets to a...
May 10, 2023 | Podcast
The Crown Prince Mary Cancer Center, which is part of Westmead hospital has suffered a data breach with the hackers demanding a ransom. The group claiming to be behind the attack is called Medusa and is known to be actively targeting Australian and New Zealand...
May 9, 2023 | Podcast
The ABC news recently interviewed the CEO of the Cyber Security Research Center on whether companies should consider paying ransom to hackers. Her view is that we should not as it normalised the criminal behaviour. She said that once you receive the ransomware note,...
May 8, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian federal government has announced that a standalone privacy commissioner will be appointed to deal with the growing threats to data security and to protect the personal information of millions of Australians. The federal Attorney-General had declared...
May 5, 2023 | Podcast
Google has started rolling out passkey support for Google Accounts across all services and platforms. Users using passkeys will be able to sign into their Google accounts without needing to enter a password or using 2-Step verification. The Passkeys are linked to each...
May 4, 2023 | Podcast
Google recently announced that the lock icon that is used to indicate that the website connection is using https will be removed from the Chrome browser. They said that it is no longer needed as more than 99% of all web pages loaded on Chrome are over HTTPS. They also...
