It's another episode with Scott Helme this week as he's back in town for NDC Security on the Gold Coast (still a got a week to get those tickets, folks!) The timing actually works out pretty well as…

Account security is a top priority of Epic Games.

A couple of years ago, I was heavily involved in analysing and reporting on the massive VTech hack, the one where millions of records were exposed including kids' names, genders, ages, photos and the…

Apple Pay works with many of the major credit, debit, and prepaid cards from the top banks and card issuers. Just add your supported cards and continue to get all the rewards, benefits, and security of your cards.

We've got fingerprints and facial recognition, so why haven't we got rid of passwords yet? It's not that simple.

We were recently tipped off that the Australian Tic Toc Track watch was almost undoubtedly just a version of the Gator kids GPS tracking watch. That’s the tracker watch which leaked real time kids…

Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of "when I was young..." and then there's a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk…

After almost six years in operation, Dream Market is calling it quits. CCN has confirmed rumors of the shutdown. Since the original message was unsigned, there is some confusion about its derivation.…

As best I understand it, one of the most effective SEO things you can do is to repeat all the important words on your site down the bottom of the page. To save it from looking weird, you make the text…

A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law…

That's the second update in a row I've done on time! It's also another one with a bunch of other things in common with last week, namely commentary on yet more data breaches. It's not just the…

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I've just wrapped up a couple of Hack Yourself First workshops down closer to home in Australia and true to usual form, attendees found some absolute zinger security implementations. Previous workshops have found various vulnerabilities ranging from realestate.com.au's lack of HTTPS in their Android

Wow, a weekly update back on the normal schedule! I also realised when watching this back how less tired I look compared to the last few weeks. Travel takes its toll so I touched on that a bit in this…

Organisations don't plan to fail. Probably the closest we get to that in the security space is password hashing, which for all intents and purposes is an acknowledgement that one day, you may well…

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We’re continually designing new features and parental controls to help make sure children use their devices in the ways their parents want them to.

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Infosec is a continual game of one-upmanship; we build a defence and someone breaks it so we build another one then they break that and the cycle continues. ...

Online transactions face a serious new challenge starting in September 2019, when any card-not-present transaction over €30 will require payer authentication. This will lead to an unprecedented spike…

From last week's update in Seattle to home to Sydney to back home and a late update (again). But regardless, I'm committed to continuing the cadence of doing these updates each week and 132 of them…