S5E7 - What the hell is going on with the Infosec job market?

Story 1

Australia heading towards age restrictions and verification in weeks.

Social media minimum age

https://tinyurl.com/33e9r296

Australia is quietly introducing 'unprecedented' age checks for search engines like Google

https://tinyurl.com/4tthrs2z

Main Topic

OAIC is getting some teeth and has come out swinging.

Landmark privacy penalty: What the ACL case means for data protection in Australia

https://tinyurl.com/4p5jyu7d

Australian Clinical Labs ordered to pay penalties in relation to Medlab Pathology data breach in first for Privacy Act

http://tiny.cc/pl5u001

MAILBAG

A follow up comment from a LinkedIn post http://tiny.cc/nl5u001

"The quality of the applicants coming through and the expectation do not match. So many think they deserve 100k plus but want to learn for multiple years while all other industry start at much lower this is specific for cyber .

For IT we recently posted a senior position and when we asked basic questions in office 365 majority couldn't even answer. The level of understanding is not the same as it used to be.

Now this i blame on three things. University have a lot of answer for from a learning and saying to students change jobs often and use it to springboard your salary.

Business need to be held accountable and not use staff as disposal tools. Recruit when required and train to improve and increase salary as the business grows

Third is students only want to learn to pass a course not to understand how and why you do it. I had an interesting chat with others that say students ask what they need to study for just tell us what going to be in the exam. Life isn't like that." - Ben, Perth

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S5E6 - Jaguar’s roar goes quiet for another week.

Story 1

NPM Hack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-software-packages/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/40-npm-packages-compromised-in-supply.html

https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/ongoing-targeting-of-online-code-repositories

https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12668-acsc-warns-of-aussie-orgs-ongoing-targeting-of-code-repositories

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/i/npm-supply-chain-attack.html

Story 2

Collins Aerospace hack grounds flights in Europe

https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12665-collins-aerospace-hack-a-wake-up-call-for-australian-airports-expert-says

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/european-airports-race-fix-check-in-glitch-after-hacking-disruption-2025-09-21/

Main Topic

JLR Outage goes into 5th week

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/jaguar-land-rover-cyber-attack-uk-factory-b2831761.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/20/jaguar-land-rover-hack-factories-cybersecurity-jlr

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/jaguar-land-rover-tata-motors-west-midlands-solihull-merseyside-b2823822.html

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Story 1

Qantas and social engineering.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/06/qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans

Story 2

Ingram Micro taken down by Safepay Ransomware Gang

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ingram-micro-outage-caused-by-safepay-ransomware-attack/

https://redpiranha.net/news/what-is-safepay-ransomware-everything-you-need-know

Main Topic

Interview : Graeme Speak - Rethinking Cyber Security

https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemespeak/

https://bankvault.com

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