Sep 25, 2023 | Podcast
Beware of what you download! A malicious actor has attempted to disguise a malware as a proof of concept exploit for the recently released WinRAR vulnerability. WinRAR was recently discovered to suffer from an improper validation issue which can be exploited to...
Sep 22, 2023 | Podcast
Pizza Hut Australia notified 193,000 customers that the company had suffered a data breach. Pizza Hut Australia became aware of the cyber security incident earlier this month that an unauthorised third party had accessed its data. The company investigated and believes...
Sep 21, 2023 | Podcast
In an effort to reduce cyber-crime, the Australian Federal Government has introduced digital identity legislation to parliament. With the growing number of Australian data breaches in the last year, there has been a consensus by industry in favour of a government...
Sep 20, 2023 | Podcast
Microsoft’s AI Research Division has been leaking 38TB worth of sensitive data for over three years! Discovered by a security researcher, the leak started back in July 2020 and was due a Microsoft employee inadvertently sharing the URL for a misconfigured Azure...
Sep 19, 2023 | Podcast
As part of a co-ordinated national action plan, the Australian Government will release a revised cyber security strategy later this year around six cyber shields. It’s been almost a year since the Optus Breach, which at the time was the largest cyber security...
Sep 18, 2023 | Posts
The Auckland Transport authority in New Zealand has suffered a cyber security incident that is impacting a wide range of customer services. Auckland Transport is the transportation authority in the Auckland region. They look after transport infrastructure and are...
Sep 15, 2023 | Podcast
Spyware masquerading as Telegram applications have been spotted in the Google Play Store and has been downloaded over 60,000 times. According to security researchers, the app appears visually identical to the official telegram application, it contains additional...
Sep 14, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian federal government is now mandating that non-corporate commonwealth entities appoint a CISO to be responsible for cyber security leadership in the entity. The government recently approved amendments to the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF)...
Sep 14, 2023 | Speaking
Had the opportunity to speak at the OWASP Lago chapter this evening. The audience are graduate engineers wanting to learn more about security. I had the great pleasure of doing the seminar with Josh Grossman who is a key member of the OWASP Application Security...
Sep 13, 2023 | Podcast
In an effort to promote cybersecurity, staff and students from three university and across three states attended an Annual Australian Music festival to run daily cyber security tune ups for festival goers. Generation TikTok are cyber-savvy, they know there is danger...
