Dec 2, 2022 | Podcast
Vanuatu, a South Pacific Ocean nation consisting of around 80 islands suffered a cyber attack a month ago. The attacked gained entry onto the government systems via a phishing activity. The malware crashed nearly all government email and websites archives. This...
Dec 1, 2022 | Podcast
The hackers behind the Medibank breach released their largest data dump in the early hours of this morning. The six gigabytes dump of up to 10 million customer’s personal data appears to be the remainder of the stolen information with the hackers adding the...
Nov 30, 2022 | Podcast
The ABC recently released a report on cyber data breaches on Australian companies. They found highly sensitive information of millions of Australians. This included logins for personal Australian Tax Office accounts, medical and personal data of thousands of NDIS...
Nov 29, 2022 | Podcast
Following several major breaches that affected Australian organisations in recent months, the Australian parliament today passed the Privacy Legislation Amendment Bill. This bill, which is soon to become law, significantly increase the penalties under the Privacy Act...
Nov 28, 2022 | Podcast
Microsoft just released their 2022 Digital Defense Report. The 114 page report covers the state of cybercrime, nation state threats, device and infrastructure, cyber influence operations and cyber resilience. Cyber criminals get taking two strategies to gain access....
Nov 25, 2022 | Podcast
The Medibank breach which affected 9.7 million customers is the worst hack in Australian corporate history. The company refused the hackers ransom demands and around 2,700 customer records were released on the dark web. Medibank analysed those released data and...
Nov 24, 2022 | Podcast
If you own a Google Pixel, make sure you have installed the November security updates. Otherwise your device is exposed to a Lock Screen bypass vulnerability. Here’s how you can reproduce that vulnerability. Step 1, lock the device. You can do this by entering...
Nov 23, 2022 | Podcast
Early this week, the site on the dark web that were used to post the Medibank breaches has mysteriously disappeared. The hackers had so far made 5 sets of data releases, exposing 2700 customer records. With the site going offline, it has disrupted the release and...
Nov 22, 2022 | Podcast
When an organisation suffers a data breach, should they pay the ransom demands? This has been a hot topic in recent weeks with the Medibank breach. That breach affected 9.7 million customers and is the worst hack in Australian corporate history. The company had...
Nov 21, 2022 | Podcast
In what is the worst hack in Australia corporate history, Medibank hackers release 1500 more sensitive records. The records are understood to be related to a range of diseases, including HIV, hepatitis and mental illness. This is on top of the more than 1200 records...
