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...
Sep 24, 2021 | Speaking
I had the privilege to speak at the 20th Anniversary OWASP event. It’s a live 24hr global...
May 19, 2021 | Speaking
This year’s RSA theme is Resilience. It’s once again a virtual event, which means I get to attend as a speaker without needing to travel to San Francisco. Title: It’s Not Your Developers’ Fault Time: 5:00pm to 5:30pm (EDT) Description:The...
Jul 15, 2020 | Speaking
This was my first virtual RSA presentation. Previously it had always been in person at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. However due to the pandemic, this session was done virtually. The title of my talk was Your Application is Mostly Written by...
Jul 6, 2020 | Speaking
I had the opportunity to be a guest on the IDC DevOps Breakfast show with Gina Smith and Michael Araneta where we got to speak on open source...
