Aug 7, 2023 | Podcast
Cyber criminals have scammed the Australian Tax Office of more than half a billion dollars. They have done so by exploiting a weakness in the identification system used by the myGov online portal. The weakness allows them to redirect other people’s tax refund to...
Aug 4, 2023 | Podcast
A senate committee investigating interference in Australia by foreign powers through social media have released a report this week which found that TikTok and WeChat could be the country’s biggest security risks. The report made 17 recommendations, including...
Aug 3, 2023 | Podcast
Canon recently released a security advisory stating the wifi connection information do not get wiped on some of their inkjet printers during initialisation. The wifi connection information includes wifi network SSID, password, network type (such as whether it is WPA3...
Aug 2, 2023 | Podcast
The home affairs department had suffered a data leak when they accidentally published personal information of more 50 small businesses who participated in a cybersecurity survey. This survey was part of a research report being put together for a government program...
Aug 1, 2023 | Podcast
Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group released a review report of 0-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild in 2022. A total of 41 in the wild zero-day vulnerabilities were detected and disclosed that year. This is a 40% decrease from the...
Jul 31, 2023 | Podcast
40% of Ubuntu Cloud Workloads are affected by two easy to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Ubuntu is one of the most widely used Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. It has an approximate user base of...
