CISO Corner

From Storage to Explosion – Boobytrapped USBs

In today’s day and age, caution surrounding USB devices is becoming more and more prevalent. This is due to the dangers of what could be stored on the device. USB devices are extremely cheap, portable, and popular among cybercriminals. Attackers use USB devices to...

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The Hidden Risks of ChatGPT and AI

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code. This...

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Cyber Safety for Children

With school holidays well underway, kids are spending more time online gaming, talking with friends, and posting on social media. It is an excellent time for parents and carers to teach or remind their children of cyber security behaviours. Remind them to take a...

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LastPass Security Breach

What Has Happened? Just before the 2022 holidays, LastPass announced customer data was significantly compromised after an unknown threat actor copied a cloud-based backup of customer vault data. This breach occurred over many months and it’s believed to have...

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Twitter – Data Breach and Security Concerns

What Has Happened? In August, Twitter came forward and admitted a vulnerability had been exploited by a third party to obtain user data. This vulnerability had been present since June 2021 and was only patched in January 2022. Twitter confirmed the attack after...

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Medibank Data Breach

What Has Happened? On the 13th of October, Medibank suffered a “cyber incident” that took its data and policy systems offline. They were able to restore the systems the next day and announced there was “no evidence that customer data has been accessed”. Following...

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