Apr 20, 2023 | Podcast
March 2023 has been the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts, with 459 recorded ransomware. This is up 91% from the previous month. According to NCC group, the reason for the record-breaking attack is due to a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s...
Apr 19, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) says Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022. This is an 80% increase over the total losses recorded in 2021. Investment scams accounted for the most losses, at $1.5 billion. This is followed...
Apr 18, 2023 | Podcast
Four corners from the ABC news just published an article about their conversation with one of the hackers who’s worked for the cyber criminal gangs behind some of Australia’s largest data breaches. When asked whether he see Australia as an attractive...
Apr 17, 2023 | Podcast
Google has just released an emergency Chrome security update to address a zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is assigned CVE-2023-2033 and is a type confusion weakness in the Chrome JavaScript Engine. It affects the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The...
Apr 14, 2023 | Podcast
With web applications being a target of numerous cyber attacks, the SANS Internet Storm Center has released an article sharing the three must have security HTTP headers for controlling many easily preventable vulnerabilities. The first is HTTP Strict Transport...
Apr 13, 2023 | Podcast
The Tasmanian state government has recently suffered a data breach. The hackers targeted a third-party transfer software used by the Tasmanian Department of Education, Children and Young People. Initially the Science and Technology Minister said that it appeared that...
Apr 12, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial has announced that they have received a ransom demand from the criminals behind the cyber-attack. The company disclosed last month that they had suffered a data breach which exposed 14 million customer records. The breach had originated from a...
Apr 11, 2023 | Podcast
Following the recent large Australian data breaches with Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial, the government will be summoning the nation’s largest banks and financial services companies to a series of cyber war games to test how they would respond to...
Apr 10, 2023 | Podcast
Uber has suffered yet another data breach. Affected drivers were notified that Uber “became aware” of suspicious activity in its internal information systems in late January. After investigating, the company determines that an unauthorised third party had...
Apr 7, 2023 | Podcast
Service NSW has suffered a breach which exposes personal data of thousands of its customers. Personal information such as driver’s licenses, vehicle registration details, contact information and children’s name may have been exposed to other logged in...
