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...
Jul 28, 2023 | Podcast
Call of Duty Game Players are getting infected by a self-spreading Malware. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first person shooter game published by Activision and released in November 2009. Although it is an old game, its still played by around 600 people on the...
Jul 27, 2023 | Speaking
I had the privilege of being a judge on the 5th episode of Australia’s Got Tech Talent. The event was hosted by Yana Martens and it was live streamed on Facebook and LinkedIn. Each episode has a tech entrepreneur presenting and we had a pitch by Shantanu...
Jul 27, 2023 | Podcast
Microsoft is expanding access to cloud logging to all customers for free, with more becoming available in September 2023. This came after they received strong criticisms as a result of the Storm-0558 breach. On July 11, Microsoft reported having quelled a...
Jul 26, 2023 | Podcast
VirusTotal has suffered a data leak. The popular online service was launched in 2004 and is used to analyse suspicious files and URLs to detect malicious content or malware. The data leak involved a database with 5,600 registered customers names and email addresses....
Jul 25, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is urging all Australian to report Cybercrimes using their easy online service. The reporting can be done anonymously and reports by individuals will be referred directly to the relevant state or territory law enforcement...
