Mar 21, 2023 | Podcast
ABC news just released an article saying that Australia’s biggest skin cancer study has been hit by an unpublicised data breach, with the personal details of more than 1,000 people feared to have been accessed by hackers. The study participant’s name,...
Mar 20, 2023 | Podcast
Latitude Financial Services, which is Australia’s largest personal loans provider and the country’s largest non-bank consumer credit lender has suffered a data breach. The breach impacted over 225,000 customers with around 100,000 driver’s license...
Mar 17, 2023 | Podcast
Beware of Silicon Valley Bank Scams. Any big news story tends to attract its set of scams, so its no surprise that last week’s failure of Silicon Valley Bank is starting to get some traction. Johannes Ullrich from the SANS Internet Storm Center has written an...
Mar 16, 2023 | Podcast
A ransomware group has claimed to have breached Amazon’s security camera company Ring. Ring however has said that it does not have any evidence of a breach of its own systems. It is however aware of a third party that has experienced a ransomware event. It is...
Mar 15, 2023 | Podcast
Patch your Firefox browser. Security advisories have just been released for Mozilla Firefox about a number of vulnerabilities that could allow for arbitrary code execution. Some of those security issues include Firefox for Android may open third-party apps without a...
Mar 14, 2023 | Podcast
GitHub has begun a gradual roll out of requiring active developers to enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. This is part of the company’s move towards securing the supply chain by moving away from basic password-based authentication. In addition to...
Mar 13, 2023 | Podcast
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a brute force botnet malware that are targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP and Postgres services. The Golang based botnet will attempt to brute force accounts with weak or default passwords. Once it has...
Mar 10, 2023 | Podcast
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the chief executive of Optus has maintained that the cyberattack on her organisation in September last year was perpetrated by a skilled cybercriminal. She said that the attacker had knowledge of Optus’ systems and cycled...
Mar 9, 2023 | Podcast
Endor Labs, in collaboration with 20 CISOs and technology veterans have identified the top 10 open source risks of 2023. They are: 1. Known vulnerabilities. – Where developers accidentally introduce a component that contains vulnerable code 2. Compromise of...
Mar 8, 2023 | Podcast
Google has released its March 2023 security updates for Android. The update addresses 60 flaws including two critical-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities. The two flaws are tracked as CVE-2023-20951 and CVE-2023-20954. Google is currently withholding...
