CircleCI security incident immediate actions

CircleCI recently announced that they are investigating a security incident. While they haven’t yet provided any details of the incident or their responses, they have requested two immediate actions to be taken by their customers. The first is to rotate any and all...

Queensland University of Technology suffers Ransomware Attack

The Queensland University of Technology has disclosed that it had suffered a cyberattack. The University had to shut down their IT systems in response and they expect some of those systems to be disrupted for some weeks. Students who are currently enrolled will be...

Google Home Smart Speaker Wiretap vulnerability

Matt from down right niffy dot me recently released an article detailing how he discovered an interesting vulnerability in Google’s Home smart speaker. He discovered that you can link a google account to a smart speaker without any authentication. The vulnerability...

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...