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...
Apr 6, 2023 | Podcast
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...
Apr 5, 2023 | Podcast
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...
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...
