Jun 27, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority (APRA) has imposed an extra $250m requirement in Medibank’s capital adequacy requirement. Medibank Private, a health insurance provider, suffered a data breach in October 2022 which resulted in the compromise of...
Jun 26, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Federal Cabinet signed off on the appointment of the government’s first co-ordinator of cybersecurity. Following the major cyber-attacks against Optus and Medibank, the Home Affairs Minister had raised concerns that there was no functional cyber...
Jun 23, 2023 | Podcast
Over the past year, more than 101,000 stolen ChatGPT accounts are being sold on dark web marketplaces. Leaked ChatGPT credentials peaked in May 2023, with threat actors posting roughly 26,800 new accounts. Countries with the most number of compromised...
Jun 22, 2023 | Podcast
Apple has just released a patch which addresses three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks installing the triangulation spyware. It’s a zero-interaction vulnerability that is delivered by iMessage which allows attacks to steal data from your device....
Jun 21, 2023 | Podcast
Major Australian law firm, HWL Ebsworth, recently acknowledged that they had suffered a data breach of over 4 terabytes of data, including documents describing client and staff. The firm became aware of breach on April 28 when a threat actor made a post to the dark...
Jun 20, 2023 | Podcast
Medibank has suffered another data breach. The Australian private health insurer suffered a major cyber-attack in October last year affecting 9.7 million customers. It was one of Australia’s worst data breach. This time its staff’s private details were impacted...
Jun 19, 2023 | Podcast
When fixing zero day vulnerabilities, you might download a proof of concept script to determine if the vulnerability has been properly addressed. You might do a web search to find that proof of concept and most probably download the program from a GitHub repository....
Jun 16, 2023 | Podcast
Sextortion is a form of blackmail where malicious actors threaten to publicly leak explicit images and videos of their targets. This scheme is resulting in millions of dollars in losses and normally involves the threat actor coercing or stealing the digital materials...
Jun 15, 2023 | Podcast
Early this week, there was a tragic bus accident in NSW’s Hunter Valley region. A bus, which was returning from a local wedding, overturned, killing 10 people and injuring a further 14. Following the accident, scammers wasted no time in targeting unsuspecting...
Jun 14, 2023 | Podcast
Hamza from Security Dimension recently ran an experiment to determine if ChatGPT is up to the challenge of tackling security vulnerabilities in code. He tried to get solve a secure programming challenge in Cross Site Scripting in both Python and JavaScript. His...
