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...
It’s that time of year again: holiday shopping has begun! With the holiday season fast approaching, online shopping is expected to rise rapidly. The ease and convenience of online shopping make the holiday season the perfect time for cybercriminals to take...
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...
With many areas in the University adopting a hybrid working model, it's important to address the threats that emerge while working from home. These practices are designed to help keep your personal information, UNE information, and devices you use safe from a...
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) does an excellent job of preventing unauthorised access to a user’s account. If a threat actor can obtain your username and password, MFA should keep your account protected and prevent any access. As MFA has become more popular and...
What has happened? On the 21st of September 2022, Australia’s second-largest mobile service provider suffered a cyber-attack resulting in a massive data breach. Action has been taken to block the attack, and services such as messages, voicemails, mobile, and home...
Apple fixes their eighth exploited zero-day this year Apple has released another security update to patch their eighth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability this year. This exploit has specifically affected a large range of iPhone and Macintosh devices....
USB-Based Wormable Malware Targets Windows Installer Source: Threat Post Background A USB initiated cyber-attack refers to threat actors using a USB drive to spread malware. In a targeted attack, infected USB drives are deliberately dropped in public...
Background Personal Identity theft is the fraudulent misuse of an individual’s name or personally identifying information for criminal or deceptive purposes. Identity theft is not new, however,...
Since the conflict started in the Ukraine, there has been an escalated tension in the Cyber Security regime that could impact UNE. Prevailing advice from government security agencies is that...
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