Security
Darknet Diaries
Liberty Reserve was a black market, digital currency bank. A bank where all the dirty money from all the dodgy hacking scams (amongst all the other criminal activity) changed hands or accounts.
15 Sep, 2020
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cyber fit
Rules of Cyber Engagement
The Bureau (SBS On Demand) is a French TV series that tells the story of intelligence agents from the DGSE (French intelligence agency).
30 Aug, 2020
covid-19
Virus vulnerability: masks & passwords
Some time last week I was hit with a spam email from a random local business – a business I have never shopped in or with, online or otherwise.
15 Aug, 2020
covid-19
Reality Espionage
A state actor is poking around in the digital information depths with an invisibility cloak and there is little indication, if any, that a digital alarm has been set or is going off.
29 Jul, 2020
Security
The cyber investment we had to have
I was aghast when out of the blue came an announcement on ABC News that the Australian federal government was allocating 1.35 billion dollars to cyber security and cyber defence over the next 10 years.
13 Jul, 2020
Security
Hacking: Systems or People – who opens the door?
The corporations that have suffered recent cyber attacks in Australia are now among an ever-growing list of big business names.
30 Jun, 2020
Business
Phishy business
It is hard to take data phishing seriously when the nomenclature is comical – scaling, spear phishing, pharming, whaling… and none of these terms have anything to do with what we understand as fishing with 2 main ingredients, outdoors and wet.
15 Jun, 2020
Business
Double the ransom for Toll
Toll Holdings has again been struck by a ransomware attack. Earlier this year Russian based hackers annihilated the logistics system that Toll relied upon to deliver services.
31 May, 2020
covid-19
Listening to Bill
When Bill Gates talks, we listen. He is a technological prophet, ultimate data geek and now a full time philanthropist, since he stepped down in his position from the Microsoft board.
15 May, 2020
