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S4E7 What actually caused the Medibank breach

Season 4, Ep. 7

Season 4 Episode 7 What actually caused the Medibank breach?


Story 1

Link to Crowdstrike blog update

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/

https://www.inc-aus.com/associated-press/crowdstrike-ceo-called-to-testify-before-congress-over-global-tech-outage.html?cid=pushly

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/business/crowdstrike-outage-uber-eats/index.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-07/drt-crowdstrike-root-cause-analysis/104193866


Story 2

Cabinet reshuffle -

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-28/anthony-albanese-reshuffles-cabinet-clare-oneil-andrew-giles/104141974

https://au.news.yahoo.com/pm-albanese-unveil-look-cabinet-173000864.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGJqXero2AY2_lVvId1MsxW2sppVSNXfrPMYS0xcDwly7Q5aMXTPZCWvDT9j3f-41VmOf96qUDUJtieFpGhRYwH5_eTP5puaEeGFG9WIYQdhMe8d0QlKFc4XXUM0eeQIiGPAWXqLpqTYIYMTXVbsT07_c4GhK7sGVOh4YSnLj8T1


Main Topic

Medibank breach

https://www.oaic.gov.au/newsroom/oaic-takes-civil-penalty-action-against-medibank


Event Calendar - 


30th August - Scams and Sushi - City of Subiaco

Last week of August - Scam Watch Week - Share a story, stop a scam

3rd September - Student of Cyber with AWS

13th September - National Missings Persons Hackathon

17th September - Computing and Security Showcase Evening Joondalup ECU Building 21


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