Nov 7, 2023 | Podcast
Okta has suffered yet another data breach. This one affecting their employees’ personal information. The cloud identity and access management solutions provider has suffered a series of data breaches in recent years with the most recent being in October 2023 where...
Nov 6, 2023 | Podcast
The Canadian government has announced a ban on the use of WeChat and Kaspersky Apps on government issued mobile devices. The Canadian government banned TikTok in February 2023 and is now adding Tencent’s WeChat and Kaspersky to the list. This follows a disclosure by...
Nov 3, 2023 | Podcast
Who should bear the cost of invoice scam? The victim, the company the money was meant to be sent to, or the bank? Invoice scamming is on the rise in Australia and between January to September this year over 28,000 false billing scam were reported to the Australian...
Nov 2, 2023 | Podcast
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against SolarWinds Corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for fraud and internal control failures relating to allegedly known cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities. SolarWinds...
Nov 2, 2023 | Speaking
I participated at this year’s SekuroKon event. It was held at Luna park and I spoke at a fireside chat event on securing and protecting our financial crown jewels. The event was moderated by Alicia and the other participants included Dale and Phil. I shared the...
Nov 1, 2023 | Podcast
A malware that was initially thought to be crypto miner has been discovered to be a sophisticated spy platform. The malware framework platform is named StripFly and it has flown under the radar of security researchers for over 5 years. First detected in 2017, it was...
Oct 31, 2023 | Podcast
Casio has suffered a data breach that has affected over 120,000 customers in 149 countries. The Japanese electronics manufacturer said that the data breach occurred in ClassPad.net, which is one of its software subsidiaries. ClassPad is Casio’s education web app...
Oct 30, 2023 | Podcast
Since the Israel-Hamas War, there’s been numerous crypto donation scam site appearing online. Scammers have been capitalising on the horrific events of the Israel-Hamas conflict by pretending to be legitimate charities and collecting donations. These websites...
Oct 27, 2023 | Podcast
Hundreds of millions of users accounts that use cross-platform authentication were at risk of having their accounts taken over by threat actors. Security researchers had discovered critical misconfiguration flaws in the implementation of the Open Authorization (OAuth)...
Oct 26, 2023 | Podcast
1Password has confirmed that it was attacked by cyber criminals using session information that was stolen in the recent Okta breach. 1Password is a popular password management platform used by over 100,000 businesses. A member of their IT team detected suspicious...
