S5E9 - We made out alive in 2025!

Story 1

Fake Domains - https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/russian-hackers-create-4300-fake-travel.html

Story 2

The change to the internet that nobody is talking about. Age verification controls on Search Engines!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

Main Topic

Looking back and Looking forward - The panel discusses what we saw over the year and what we need to look for in 2026.

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AISA PerthSEC Conference: Thursday 27 November 2025 - We will ALL be there!

Student of Cyber : December 2 2025

The BIG STOTM, AISA, ISECA, AWSN, Cyberwest, Cyber Risk meetup for Christmas. 11th December - Eventbrite for details

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S5E8 - Destiny Rescue Special

CONTENT WARNING - Child Exploitation

We speak with Matt Valentine from destinyrescue.org about his fight against child exploitation.

To support Destiny Rescue and their mission to make a difference to the lives of children impacted by exploitation, simply go to the website or contact Destiny Rescue’s corporate partnerships manager, Julia Yeow, directly at Julia.yeow@destinyrescue.org, to find out more about what you and your organisation can do.

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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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AWSN Perth - Tabletop exercise 30th October

WiTWA 6th November

AICon in Busselton 14th Nov

AISA PerthSEC Conference: Thursday 27 November 2025

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