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Personal Security involves adopting practices and measures to protect personal information, online accounts, and digital devices from potential cyber threats. This includes employing strong, unique passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, staying vigilant against phishing attempts, and keeping software and security applications up-to-date. By fostering a heightened awareness of potential risks and adopting proactive security habits, individuals can significantly reduce the likelihood of falling victim to cybercrimes such as identity theft or unauthorised access to their personal, and likely by extension, their organisations assets.

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The Price of Going Mobile App Viral

from Jamie O'Reilly | July 30, 2025 | Application Security, Personal Security, Security Operations

The Tea app, a platform for women to rate and review dating experiences, recently went viral on the US App Store but suffered a severe data breach. Due to insecure Firebase storage and poor application security hygiene, over 72,000 private images including ID cards and selfies were exposed, with no access control or rate limiting in place. Metadata extraction further revealed user GPS locations, and sensitive credentials were leaked through hardcoded secrets in both mobile and web applications. Jamieson O’Reilly, an offensive security consultant, independently validated these issues through static analysis and decompilation, identifying hardcoded Mapbox server keys and exposed bearer tokens in production ...

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Cyber and Physical Worlds Collide in Critical Infrastructure

By Karissa Breen | July 21, 2025 | Cyber Resilience | Personal Security | Security Operations

The convergence of cyber and physical security is no longer a hypothetical future; it’s the present reality for critical infrastructure operators worldwide. Sam Mackenzie, ...

Qantas Breached and Customers are Fuming

Earlier today it was announced across mainstream media channels that Qantas suffered a data breach, affecting approximately six million customers. The breach was linked to a ...

The Top Cyber Movies that Shaped our View for Better or for Worse?

By Karissa Breen | June 20, 2025 | Personal Security

From flickering CRT monitors to sophisticated cyber heists, the proliferation of cyber films that mirrors our growing anxiety and fascination with life online. Hollywood has ...

Active Subscription Scam Campaigns Flooding the Internet

By Bitdefender | May 1, 2025 | Personal Security | Security Awareness | Threat Intelligence

Bitdefender researchers have uncovered a surge in subscription scams, both in scale and sophistication, spurred by a massive campaign involving hundreds of fraudulent ...

Account Takeover Attacks on Social Media: A Rising Threat for Content Creators and Influencers

In 2024 and continuing into 2025, social media platforms were prime targets for cybercriminals, with content creators facing the brunt of the malicious attacks, including a ...

Overcoming the Social Media Fraud Challenge with Graph Databases

By Peter Philipp | March 24, 2025 | Government & Policy | Personal Security | Security Awareness

Every year, organisations and consumers alike lose billions of dollars to online scams. Busting fraud and protecting users is all about finding and investigating the ...