As many of you will know, southern Australia is currently suffering the worst bushfires in peacetime history of Australia. Over 173 are confirmed as dead with many more injured, towns have been destroyed completely and people losing everything. The SBS and the ABC have particularly good online coverage of this ongoing disaster. What makes it [...]

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Local media has today reported that a rogue Dropbear has been spotted in the Brisbane CBD terrorising the local population. Some think its only a Koala, but I think this guy is actually a close relative of the Koala – you know from the line of Koalas and Dropbears that interbred … can’t remember the [...]

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Most of you know I work in the Information Security area. You probably also know I am passionate about Australia. However, this post is not about the technical ineffectiveness of the technologies that have been proposed (which I will write later). This is more about the method in which the Australian Government is pursuing the [...]

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A colleague of mine at work started blogging again last weekend, highlighting a very good point that if 2-Factor Authentication is being offered to online gaming players, they why the hell are there still governments and financial institutions across the world that still rely on basic UserID and Password authentication to their online services? Although [...]

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A very interesting article caught my eye which is being presented to BlackHat Europe and HITB Dubai conferences. Two Indian graduates have developed a Vbootkit, which is just like a standard rootkit in Windows … but importantly is invoked before the OS

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