Nov 10, 2022 | Podcast
Experts are urging for cyber security to be taught to kids as young as 5-year-old. There’s been a the huge increase in number of data breaches being report in Australia in the last few weeks. While the Australian government is making improvements to national...
Nov 9, 2022 | Podcast
Personal data of hundreds of Australians have been posted online after it was stolen from Medibank, which is one of the country’s largest health insurance provider. Medibank suffered a data breach last month which affected 9.7 million customers. The hackers had...
Nov 8, 2022 | Podcast
There’s been yet another data breach in Australia. This time the personal and health information of students and their families who reside in the state of Victoria. This is also another supply chain attack where a technology vendor with contracts with the Victorian...
Nov 7, 2022 | Podcast
Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories by gaining access to one of its employee’s GitHub account. The successful breach resulted from a phishing attack that targeted multiple Dropbox employees using emails...
Nov 4, 2022 | Podcast
There’s been another supply chain attack, with this one affecting more than 250 regional and national newspaper websites serving cities such as Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Miami, New York, Palm Beach and Washington DC. The attack involved compromised JavaScript...
Nov 3, 2022 | Podcast
The list of cyber breaches in Australia is continuing to rise with a Melbourne Real Estate company being the latest target. An “unknown third party” had accessed its rental property database. This revelation came just over a week after digital rights...
Nov 2, 2022 | Podcast
There’s been a number of serious data breaches against Australian companies in recent months. Most notably was telco company, Optus, health insurance provider, MediBank, online shopping, MyDeal, and wine dealer, vinomofo. As a result the government is...
Nov 1, 2022 | Podcast
When we’re investigating a security vulnerability, we might download a PoC (Proof of Concept) to help with our remediation. Researchers have analysed around 47,000 such repositories on GitHub and found around 10% of them were malicious, themselves containing malware....
Oct 31, 2022 | Podcast
The Australian Department of Defense has been caught up in a ransomware attack. Hackers have targeted an external information and communications provider with the company initially telling the defense that no data of current former personnel have been compromised....
Apr 30, 2022 | Speaking
One of the benefits of video conferencing is that you can speak to audiences all over the global. I’ve never been to Lagos, let along Africa, but had the opportunity to speak at the OWASP Lagos Chapter. Due to the timezone differences, I think I had to do the...
