Apr 4, 2023 | Podcast
Australian property giant, Meriton Suites has recently disclosed that it had suffered a significant data breach. The developer and construction company, known for its serviced apartments, has warned staff and guest that personal information may have been accessed by...
Apr 3, 2023 | Podcast
Microsoft OneNote will soon be blocking the opening of 120 dangerous file extensions to help address the ongoing phishing attacks pushing malware. Word and Excel documents with malicious macros were the attack vector of choice until mid December 2022, when Microsoft...
Mar 31, 2023 | Podcast
OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT had recently suffered a data breach. The breach was due to a vulnerability in an open-source library Redis-py, which is used by the chatbot’s developer to cache user information on their server. The vulnerability allowed some...
Mar 30, 2023 | Podcast
Superannuation fund NGS Super has reported that it suffered a data breach earlier this month. This has resulted in “some limited data” being taken from its system. The company emailed its members saying that it became aware of the breach on March 17. It...
Mar 29, 2023 | Podcast
Bill Toulas from Bleeping computer has reported that Crown Resort, which is Australia’s largest gambling and entertainment company, has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after its GoAnywhere secure file-sharing server was breached using a zero-day...
Mar 28, 2023 | Podcast
Twitter’s internal source code for its platform and tools has been taken down from GitHub and is no longer accessible. It is believed that the code has been leaked on GitHub for several months and Twitter issued a DMCA infringement notice to GitHub for its...
Mar 27, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial Services, which is Australia’s largest personal loans provider and the country’s largest non-bank consumer credit lender recently suffered a data breach. In its initial disclosure, it had initially estimated 225,000 customer records were...
Mar 24, 2023 | Podcast
The Australian Financial Review has released an article revealing the tech giant that hackers used to get inside Latitude Financial. They revealed that the breach originated from US outsourcer DXC Technology. Routine security scans that were looking for anomalous...
Mar 23, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial first revealed last week that it had suffered a data breach. The breach impacted approximately 225,000 customers including over 100,000 driver licenses. It has now warned that the number of affected customers is going to continue rising as the...
Mar 22, 2023 | Podcast
Security researchers recently disclosed a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel’s inbuilt screenshot editor tool. The editor tool allows users to redact, crop and change images on a Google Pixel device. The discovered vulnerability shows that it is...
