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Emerging Security Technology Australia: Better Outcomes, Lower Costs

📅 10/03/2026
The landscape of physical security in Australia is shifting. For years, the default response to increasing risk was “more boots on the ground.” But in an era of rising labour costs, recruitment shortages, and rapidly evolving digital threats, the traditional…
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Iran–Israel–US Escalation: What It Means for Australian Organisations, and What to Do Now

📅 10/03/2026
Author: Mark Bezzina As of early March 2026, the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has significantly altered the global risk landscape. Following joint military strikes by the United States and Israel, Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion,…
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Beyond the Red Light: Why CCTV Must Be a Strategic Security Asset 

📅 29/01/2026
Author: Mark Bezzina Beyond the Red Light: Why CCTV Must Be a Strategic Security Asset  For many organisations, CCTV still operates on a “run to fail” model. Cameras are installed, red lights blink reassuringly, and the system is largely ignored…
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BBC and British Airways Affected By Payroll Data Breach

📅 06/06/2023
The BBC, British Airways (BA) and Boots all confirmed this week that the personal data of their staff has been exposed to hackers, following a ransomware incident impacting their payroll provider Zellis. A spokesperson for the BBC confirmed that the…
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artificial intelligence

The Cybersecurity Concerns of AI

📅 26/05/2023
The newest trend in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the advancement of deep learning techniques and the emergence of more sophisticated models, such as GPT-3. Deep learning models are becoming increasingly capable of understanding and generating human-like text,…
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Quad Leaders' Summit

Quad Leaders’ Summit A Security Challenge For Australia

📅 15/05/2023
The Sydney Opera House would have been the focus of a major security operation when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the US president, Joe Biden and the prime ministers of India and Japan for the 2023 Quad Leaders’ Summit. Unfortunately…
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HTML attachments

Malicious HTML Email Attachments On The Rise

📅 04/05/2023
New research has shown that up to half of all HTML attachments sent via email are malicious, which is double the rate of 2022. “Malicious HTML is still being used by attackers because it works. Getting the right security in…
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minecraft

Minecraft Clones Spread Dangerous Adware

📅 01/05/2023
A group of 38 Google Play Minecraft knockoff apps infected devices with the Android adware “HiddenAds” to secretly load adverts, making money for the games’ creators. Minecraft is a successful sandbox game with over 140 million active players monthly. About…
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australian defence

Sydney Man Charged With Selling Australian Defence Secrets

📅 18/04/2023
Australian man Alexander Csergo, 55, was arrested in Bondi this week, following a joint ASIO and Counter Foreign Interference Taskforce investigation. He is charged with selling Australian defence and security secrets to foreign spies. Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege an…
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Home Affairs

Home Affairs’ Vulnerable To Hacking

📅 03/04/2023
A joint public accounts and audit committee hearing has revealed that the areas that Home Affairs are responsible for have tripled, while they have received no additional funding to cover the increased workload. This in turn has meant budget cuts,…
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TikTok

What You Need To Know About TikTok and Cybersecurity

📅 16/03/2023
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll know what TikTok is. If you haven’t, here is a brief rundown.  TikTok is a video-sharing app that allows users to create and share short-form videos on any topic. It’s mainly…
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myGov

The ACCC Warns Against myGov Scam

📅 06/03/2023
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned Australians against recent myGov email and text scams, with the intent behind these scams to “harvest login credentials to facilitate identity takeover and commit fraud”. “They may also use the fake…
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cybersecurity

New Cybersecurity Agenda for the Federal Government

📅 03/03/2023
After the major Optus and Medibank data breaches of 2022, the Australian federal government is pursuing a new cybersecurity agenda. “For businesses these days, cybersecurity is as important as having a lock on the door”, said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.…
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AI

How Australian Companies Are Using AI and ML

📅 28/02/2023
One of the biggest trends in cybersecurity right now is the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to improve security measures and responses, and many Australian companies are using this technology. AI and ML can be…
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LastPass data breach

LastPass Data Breach As Cloud Storage Hacked

📅 13/12/2022
Password management company LastPass has suffered it’s second data breach in five months, after attackers gained access to customer data using information they had stolen from the previous breach in August 2022. LastPass Data Breach Statement LastPass CEO, Karim Toubba,…
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AGL cyber incident

AGL Cyber Incident Affects Thousands

📅 07/12/2022
Australian energy provider AGL has been hit by a cyber incident on the “My Account” customer platform, affecting around 6,000 of it’s 4.2 million customers. “Based on current analysis it appears malicious actors have used stolen credentials acquired externally (such…
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Medibank hack

Medibank Refuses To Pay Hackers For Stolen Data

📅 16/11/2022
The Australian Federal Police are assisting Medibank to contain the fallout after data pertaining to over 480,000 customers was hacked.  There is emerging evidence that sensitive health data leaked by cyber criminals is becoming more publicly available. The hackers have…
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ISO 27001

2022 Updates to ISO 27001

📅 01/11/2022
The information security management standard ISO 27001 and it’s companion standard ISO 27002 were updated in 2022. One key change is that there is now more focus on how an organisation must deal with the needs and expectations of interested…
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Uber Hack

Uber Hack Uses Slack Server To Taunt Employees

📅 26/10/2022
Stolen credentials were used by an 18 year-old hacker who bypassed Multi-Factor Authentification (MFA) protocols to access Uber’s Slack server and taunt Uber employees. The attack, which occurred in October 2022, combined stolen credentials, an MFA attack, and social engineering…
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Jetstar flight security

Flight Security A Potential Issue for Jetstar

📅 17/10/2022
A Jetstar flight had to be diverted after a mid-air brawl broke out 24 minutes into the flight, highlighting the importance of flight security. Video taken inside the plane flying from Melbourne to Brisbane shows the moment punches were thrown,…
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