Jan 17, 2023 | Podcast
Johannes Ullrich released a public service announcement today on why you must run an adblocker when using the internet. He claims that ad networks are not doing enough due diligence on the ads that they run on their networks. He provided examples of Google search...
Jan 16, 2023 | Podcast
NortonLifeLock sent data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks. The company observed unusually high volumes of fail login attempts in December with...
Jan 13, 2023 | Podcast
The ransomware attack against Queensland’s second largest university in late December has caused financial impact to some university students. The attack saw the Queensland University of Technology shutting down several computer systems . Because of the attack,...
Jan 12, 2023 | Podcast
Henrik from Endor Labs recently created a small prototype Go application for detecting malicious packages early. The article shares what his application found, his view on the evolution of malicious packages and what we should be doing to protect ourselves from it....
Jan 11, 2023 | Podcast
Smart cars are great. They allow you to remotely lock and unlock your car, start or stop the engine, provide the car’s gps location, flash the headlights and honk the horn from any location. It could be using the manufacturer’s provided mobile app or via...
Jan 10, 2023 | Podcast
An Australian cybersecurity firm has recently uncovered a database of 14 million username and passwords. A portion of them, over 100,000 records belong to multiple government entities in Australia, that is domains ending with .gov.au This is currently being...
Jan 9, 2023 | Podcast
We’ve been seeing a lot of python related security issues of late, including the leaking of secrets. When python developer Tom Forbes of London heard that Infosys had leaked their AWS keys, he got intrigued. The key that was leaked was not just any AWS key, it...
Jan 6, 2023 | Podcast
Slack recently disclosed that it had a security incident involving unauthorised access to a subset of their code repository. They have observed suspicious activities on their GitHub code repository account, and upon investigation, discovered that a limited number of...
Jan 5, 2023 | Podcast
CircleCI recently announced that they are investigating a security incident. While they haven’t yet provided any details of the incident or their responses, they have requested two immediate actions to be taken by their customers. The first is to rotate any and all...
Jan 4, 2023 | Podcast
The Queensland University of Technology has disclosed that it had suffered a cyberattack. The University had to shut down their IT systems in response and they expect some of those systems to be disrupted for some weeks. Students who are currently enrolled will be...
