Human error has been blamed for the Optus outage that left millions without phone and internet services on Wednesday 8th November 2023. RMIT University associate professor Mark Gregory said information provided by Optus following the outage showed that it was human error, rather than a hardware failure or cyber attack, that caused the disruption. In their announcement, Optus said: “At…
There has been a sharp increase in QR code based phishing attacks – or ‘quishing’ – according to Check Point’s Harmony Email team. Quishing is a growing form of phishing attack that encourages users to scan a QR code that takes them to a page where they provide credentials that can then be used for data theft. These QR code…