My week of Monday 24 to Sunday 30 July 2023 began with tequila, moved through client work in the form of a blog piece and a podcast, as well as a day in Lidcombe, and finished with the death of a friend.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 687: From tequila to a departure”Talking the Dark Web on ABC South East NSW
In one of Australia’s biggest data breaches ever, private health insurer Medibank has had 9.7 million customer records stolen and they’re being posted on the so-called dark web. On Thursday I did two radio spots explaining the dark web. This is the second and probably better one.
Continue reading “Talking the Dark Web on ABC South East NSW”Talking the Dark Web on ABC Illawarra
In one of Australia’s biggest data breaches ever, private health insurer Medibank has had 9.7 million customer records stolen and they’re being posted on the so-called dark web. On Thursday I did two radio spots explaining the dark web. This is the first.
Continue reading “Talking the Dark Web on ABC Illawarra”The 9pm Extra: Vertical Hold episode 403, “Has Elon Musk sunk Twitter? Should Medibank pay its cyber-ransom?”
Elon Musk finally owns Twitter, but is the social media giant circling the drain or about to become something entirely new? Should Medibank pay the ransom to keep customers‘ sensitive medical data safe? I was on this week’s Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News and this is an updated version.
Continue reading “The 9pm Extra: Vertical Hold episode 403, “Has Elon Musk sunk Twitter? Should Medibank pay its cyber-ransom?””Yes of course Optus suffered a “cyber attack”, just one which looks like it was trivial to accomplish
It’s still an attack even if the defences were useless. It’s still a crime even if it were easy to commit. Optus may have been a target ripe for the taking, and may well have been negligent, but the hackers are still the baddies here.
Continue reading “Yes of course Optus suffered a “cyber attack”, just one which looks like it was trivial to accomplish”Digital developments from Canberra 8
I was planning to skip this week, but the fallout from the Optus data breach means there’s a few things worth mentioning. There’s also a quantum thing… or is there?
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