May 17, 2023 | Podcast
WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature which allows users to block others from accessing their most personal conversations. The feature is called Chat Lock and it creates a new folder that can be locked with a password or biometrics methods like fingerprint. It...
May 16, 2023 | Podcast
Scammers are getting more creative and using fraudulent QR codes to access victims’ bank accounts. A woman in Singapore reportedly lost $20,000 from her bank account after scanning a fraudulent QR code to do a survey outside of a bubble tea shop. The QR code was...
May 15, 2023 | Podcast
WeLiveSecurity has published an article sharing 5 simple strategies for maintaining your online privacy. The first is to not provide your primary email address to services which you don’t really care that much about. These could be websites that require you to...
May 12, 2023 | Podcast
Google announced that it will be bringing dark web monitoring to All Users in the United States. The feature was first released in March 2023 and made available to only to their US based Google One subscribers. Once enabled, users will be able to scan the dark...
May 11, 2023 | Podcast
Twitter has disclosed that a security incident is causing private tweets sent to Twitter Circles to leak and be shown publicly to users outside of the Circle. Twitter Circle is a feature that was released in August 2022 and is a way for users to send tweets to a...
May 10, 2023 | Podcast
The Crown Prince Mary Cancer Center, which is part of Westmead hospital has suffered a data breach with the hackers demanding a ransom. The group claiming to be behind the attack is called Medusa and is known to be actively targeting Australian and New Zealand...
May 9, 2023 | Podcast
The ABC news recently interviewed the CEO of the Cyber Security Research Center on whether companies should consider paying ransom to hackers. Her view is that we should not as it normalised the criminal behaviour. She said that once you receive the ransomware note,...
May 8, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian federal government has announced that a standalone privacy commissioner will be appointed to deal with the growing threats to data security and to protect the personal information of millions of Australians. The federal Attorney-General had declared...
May 5, 2023 | Podcast
Google has started rolling out passkey support for Google Accounts across all services and platforms. Users using passkeys will be able to sign into their Google accounts without needing to enter a password or using 2-Step verification. The Passkeys are linked to each...
May 4, 2023 | Speaking
I had the privileged to be invited to speak at the DevSecOps Leadership Forum in Auckland. It rained heavily on the day but that didn’t deter the attendees, as it was still a full house at the event. I spoke about open source security, why we need to do more due...
