West Coast Cyber

WestCoast Cyber

Perth's first Cyber Security industry podcast. Aimed at anyone wanting to learn more about Cybersecurity how it affects their work, home and world around them. Local and international Cyber and Technology news, interviews and events presented by Caitriona Forde, Fadzayi Chiwandire and Ben Aylett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. FEB 17

    S6E1 - Don't believe the hype

    The Headlines ASIC Fine https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13197-fiig-securities-faces-2-5m-fine-following-2023-cyber-attack Apple’s first Zero day of 2026  https://www.google.com/search?q=https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/apple-fixes-new-dyld-zero-day.html https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple+Patches+Everything+February+2026/32706/ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-ios-zero-day-exploited-in-extremely-sophisticated-attack/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-hackers-use-new-macos-malware-in-crypto-theft-attacks/ Main Story : The over-hyping of cybersecurity stories are distracting from the fundamentals. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-voice-virtual-meeting-fraud/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/malwaretech_juice-jacking-why-everyone-from-local-news-ugcPost-7425291701390295040-QbG6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAwp9RgBygm-lctMvTZOYWhdsEKfFnpfjV8 https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/chatgpt-caricatures-trend Community & Events 19th February AISA NSW Branch Event (https://aisa.org.au/Public/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=BMNSW19226&WebsiteKey=dd1440d8-82c8-43e1-9f70-9cec638dc85b) CyberWest Hub Fields and Fortunes (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/fields-and-fortunes) 20th February CyberWest Hub Cyber Queens (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/cyber-queens-february-2026) AWSN Perth Welcome Breakfast (https://www.awsn.org.au/eventdetails/37241/perth-welcome-to-2026-breakfast) 21st February CyberWest Hub Warembo WA Cyber (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/warembo-wa-cyber) 24th February CyberWest Hub Future Ready - The Secure Path to AI (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/future-ready-the-secure-path-to-ai) 26th February CyberWest Hub Scams and Scones (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/scams-and-scones-february-2026-x9ga6) 3rd March CyberWest Hub Students of Cyber (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/students-of-cyber-3-february-cwcjn) 23rd to 25th March CyberWest Hub Black Swan Summit (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/black-swan-summit-2026) 1st April CISO Perth (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/ciso-perth-2026) 21st April CyberWest Hub Cyber Connect (https://www.cyberwesthub.au/events-collection/cyber-connect-february-2026-589wh-6zw3b-gla5w-pkr22) SUBSCRIBE! Its Free! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min

  2. 11/25/2025

    S5E9 - We made out alive in 2025!

    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. Upcoming Events If you have an event that you want to include, get in touch. Calendar 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 Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! Subscribe! Did you know that subscribing to West Coast Cyber is $96.5 million cheaper than a weather website? aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m

  3. 11/18/2025

    S5E8 - Destiny Rescue Special

    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. If you need help, contact a medical practitioner or reach out to lifeline on 131114 or lifeline.org.au. Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    59 min

  4. 10/23/2025

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

    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 Upcoming Events If you have an event that you want to include, get in touch. AWSN Perth - Tabletop exercise 30th October WiTWA 6th November AICon in Busselton 14th Nov AISA PerthSEC Conference: Thursday 27 November 2025 Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    57 min

  5. 09/23/2025

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

    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 Upcoming Events CyberCon Melbourne 15th to 17th Oct BSides Perth 18/19 OCTOBER 2025 WiTWA 6th November AISA PerthSEC Conference: Thursday 27 November 2025 Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min

  6. 07/08/2025

    S5E5 - Rethinking Cyber Security with Graeme Speak

    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 Upcoming Events If you have an event that you want to include, get in touch. AISA The 28th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy and Social Networking Conference - 15th to 17th July AISA AdelaideSEC Conference - Friday 22 August 2025 BSides Perth 18/19 OCTOBER 2025 Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr

  7. 06/11/2025

    S5E4 - Responsible Reporting and Drivers Licenses

    S5E4 - Responsible Reporting and Drivers Licenses Story 1 Mandatory reporting of Ransom Payments https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/cyber-security-subsite/files/factsheet-ransomware-payment-reporting.pdf Story 2 Tax Time Scams https://www.ato.gov.au/online-services/scams-cyber-safety-and-identity-protection/scam-data Main Topic https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/government-error-leaks-data-of-260-tasmanian-drivers/ Upcoming Events If you have an event that you want to include, get in touch. Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min

  8. 05/07/2025

    S5E3 - Insights to a real Crypto Scam

    Story 1 https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ms-co-op-cyberattackers-duped-it-help-desks-into-resetting-passwords-says-report-2025-05-06/ Story 2 Disney Employee gets 3 years https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/fired-disney-employee-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-hacking-and-changing-menus Main Topic Guest Interview - Sean Hannan Upcoming Events Red Piranha Crystal Eye 5.5 launch events. https://redpiranha.net/events Cyber Resilience Summit Brisbane  May 14  https://forefrontevents.co/event/cyber-qld AISA WA Branch Meeting Presentation Title: BeyondCorp - Google's ZeroTrust implementation Daniel White is a Staff Security Engineer at Google, working on incident response and digital forensics. Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025 Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm (AWST) https://aisa.org.au/Public/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=BMWA0525&WebsiteKey=dd1440d8-82c8-43e1-9f70-9cec638dc85b ACS WA Tech Summit: Innovation for a New Era The Hub, Bentley Technology Park -  Tue 20 May 2025 01:00 PM AWST https://www.acs.org.au/cpd-education/event-detail.html?eventId=701Om00000H5pePIAR AusCERT Cyber Conference (Gold Coast)  May 20-23  https://conference.auscert.org.au/#:~:text=AUSCERT%202025%20will%20mark%20our,18 CYBERWEST SUMMIT! 28th and 29th May - https://eventandconfco.eventsair.com/cyberwest-summit-2025 Registrations are open now! If you have an event that you want to include, get in touch. Want to support the podcast? Leave a review and recommend us to a friend! Spread the word! aCast : https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/westcoastcyber Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/west-coast-cyber/id1793990678 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/4bvYuqrdeh1BIDKXi0rcNr iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-west-coast-cyber-107688022/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber Contacts Website - https://www.cyberwesthub.au/resources Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    51 min
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Perth's first Cyber Security industry podcast. Aimed at anyone wanting to learn more about Cybersecurity how it affects their work, home and world around them. Local and international Cyber and Technology news, interviews and events presented by Caitriona Forde, Fadzayi Chiwandire and Ben Aylett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    WestCoast Cyber
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © WestCoast Cyber
  • Show Website
    West Coast Cyber