Melbourne dev finds gift card PINs can be brute-forced

Gift cards sold in Australian supermarkets can have their PINs easily guessed, thanks to a vulnerability on the issuer’s website, opening them up to redemption by thieves who only need to know the card number to access the stored funds. The vulnerability was discovered by Melbourne developer Simon Dean who bought two gift cards worth $500 […]

Jaguar Land Rover hit by cyber incident

Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) retail and production activities have been “severely disrupted” following a cyber security incident, the British luxury carmaker said, adding that it was working to restart its operations in a controlled manner. The company, owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it had not found any evidence at this stage that any customer […]

Department of Health to centralise SecOps model

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is preparing to consolidate its end-to-end cyber security operations into a single provider as part of a broader uplift program. The department intends to unify frontline threat detection, orchestration and rapid response, moving away from a largely best-of-breed approach to procuring cyber capabilities over recent years. After briefing […]