Chatting with a Hacker

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...

Google Chrome Security Update for Zero-Day Vulnerability

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...

Security Headers to Secure Your Web Application

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...

Tasmanian Government Suffers Data Breach

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...

Latitude Financial Received Ransom Demand

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...

Uber Suffered Supply Chain Attack

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...

Personal Information Exposed in Service NSW Breach

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...

TikTok to be Banned on Australian Government Devices

TikTok has been banned on all Australian government devices over fears the Chinese app could be used for spying. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed off on the ban after a security review was conducted by the Department of Home Affairs. As part of the ban, TikTok...

Employees Feeding Sensitive Business Data to ChatGPT

Data security service, Cyberhaven, recently release a report stating  that sensitive data makes up 11% of what employees paste into ChatGPT and that the average company leaks sensitive data to ChatGPT hundreds of times each week. In one case, an executive copied...