The Headlines

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberpress-org_cyberpress-cybersecuritynews-activity-7439576347037020160-uGid/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAAAWYK78ByWMYuV-sTw7GmDznHSkMq0xqfqs&utm_campaign=whatsapp

https://cyberpress.org/stryker-confirms-massive-wiper-attack/

Chatgpt data leakage

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/can-private-information-uploaded-to-chatgpt-be-found-by-others/105858422

Guest Interview : Danja Lewis

Question on Linked IN about data leakage - I would be really interested to see how this information can actually be extracted. Many people say they’ve uploaded data, but getting it back out or even locating it again is incredibly difficult. It often feels like it disappears into a black box.

Danja can be found at AIUC.global and on LinkedIn.

Webinar

Community & Events

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)

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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)

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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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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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/

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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

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Cyber Resilience Summit Brisbane 

May 14 

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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)

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ACS WA Tech Summit: Innovation for a New Era

The Hub, Bentley Technology Park - 

Tue 20 May 2025 01:00 PM AWST

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AusCERT Cyber Conference (Gold Coast) 

May 20-23 

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https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/former-disney-employee-files-wrongful-termination-complaint-after-cyber-attack/

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-download-that-led-to-a-massive-hack-at-disney/50791f04-b675-4e9e-a033-7c4d37cd523b

Story 2

From SCIFs to Signal: How Signalgate sends a message of institutional disdain | Lowy Institute

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened

Main Topic

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/superannuation-cyber-attack-rest-afsa/105137820

Bonus

https://redpiranha.net/news/suspected-saiga-threat-actors-exploit-australian-legal-sector-edr-bypass

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/genea-ivf-investigating-cyber-incident/104954470

Story 2

https://readwrite.com/ai-deepfake-scam-italy-defense-minister-targeting-wealthy-tycoons/

Main Topic - Landmark Decision on invoice fraud.

https://cybersecurity4smallbusiness.com/10-landmark-cybersecurity-court-ruling-on-email-fraud-who-pays-the-price/

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Story 1

Docusign APIs exploited in new phishing campaign.

https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/docusign-api-abused-invoice-attack

https://www.docusign.com/trust/alerts/alert-phishing-campaign-observed-november-6-2024

Story 2

Hacker behind Snowflake arrested in Canada, held on extradition charges.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/alexander-antonin-moucka/

https://therecord.media/alleged-snowflake-hacker-detained-in-canada

https://thenightly.com.au/politics/australia/man-arrested-after-cybercrime-investigation-into-software-breaches-that-affected-millions-of-australians-c-16649915?fbclid=IwY2xjawGW4zBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR1UtBwEj_IFUWeCrgPIHCw4Qyz2jUsEURuetn7RN2p0tAYzbwVsxnxJtQ_aem_kRaiRznyXouWYXoIUCt6Zw&sfnsn=wa

Interview - Dan Haagman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danhaagman/

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November

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Story 1

ChatGPT errors of judgement puts child at risk.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/chatgpt-error-of-judgement-puts-child-at-risk-.html

Main Topic - Jacob Larsen - Research : Doxxing takes a serious turn.

Live interview with Jacob Larsen on his research on Doxxing and Violence as a Service.

https://larsencyber.com/blog/2024-08-08-blackhat-doxing-to-doorstep/

https://larsencyber.com/blog/2024-08-07-blackhat-interviews-extorters/

https://www.wired.com/story/doxing-extortion-violence-as-service/

Upcoming Events

Cybercon

BSides - Melb, Canberra

AISA Perth Sec - Wednesday 23 October - https://aisasecuritydays.com.au/perthsec

AISA Stuent Sec - Thursday 31st October - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aisa-studentsec-tickets-1004923171257 

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

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Telegram - CEO Arrested https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-29/telegram-pavel-durov-banned-from-leaving-france-charges-laid/104283704

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/06/pavel-durov-telegram-founder-post-comments-arrest-france

Story 2

Change Healthcare - Update

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5111590/cyberattacks-ransomware-health-care-federal-response

Main Topic - Scam Farms

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cyber-cx_last-night-60-minutes-australia-looked-at-activity-7233641800350015489-pqvG/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

Challenges - Apart from the traditional.

Red Flags to Look For:

Urgency

Playing on emotions - Fear, Greed, Lust etc.

Unusual methods (paying by gift cards, cryptocurrency)

Repeated (and unexpected) 2FA requests

Might even be from someone you know or trust (impersonation/spearphishing/whaling)

What can we do to slow down or stop fraud?

Policy

Culture

Champions

Event Calendar - 

13th September - National Missings Persons Hackathon - Bash's review

26 - 28 Sept - Bsides Canberra

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

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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

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

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Crowd Strike - Just a quick note “Early days, lots to unfold.”

Story 2

https://amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/104126074

Main Topic

Free WiFi 

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/man-charged-over-creation-evil-twin-free-wifi-networks-access-personal

Event Calendar - 

24th - 26th July Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference - PCEC

26th July Cyber Boardgame Arvo UWA Student Hub

4th August - PECAN + Capture the Flag - ECU Joondalup

10th August - Parallel Realities: AI and the Unfolding Cyber Culture - Curtin University St. Georges Terrace, Perth

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

3rd September - Student of Cyber with AWS

13th September - National Missing Persons Hackathon

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

If you have an event you would like to share, just get in touch with the team using the contacts below.

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

Social Media

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Show Notes

Season 4, Episode 5, Cyberwest Rewind.

Story 1

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/medisecure-calls-in-administrators-after-cyber-breach-608580

Story 2

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

Main Topic

CyberWest Summit 2024

Event Calendar:

• 19/6 (Wednesday) AISA Breakfast - Anzac Club WA - member tickets on the website.
• 26/6 AWSN at the BankWest Offices on Murray Street - See the website for member tickets

Contacts us at:

• Website Cyberwesthub.au
• Email westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au
• Discord https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber
• Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/westcoastcyber/
• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/
• Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastcyber

The Red Piranha Competition

Red Piranha is hosting an EOFY Competition for people in Perth!

Your participation in the competition can make you win Red Piranha CISO Swag Bag which includes:

✅ 6 months of Loot Crate #1 Pop Culture Mystery Subscription for you!

✅50% off 1 x Platinum Managed Detection and Response (MDR)/Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) 12 Month Subscription for your organisation.

✅Free Dark Web Monitoring

✅$10,000.00 off a Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Test (VAPT) for your organisation.

✅Free Cybersecurity Awareness Training (CSAT) for your organisation.

To participate, all you have to do is:

• Get down to Central Park, Perth City before 19th June 2024, and look up at the big screen. When you see Red Piranha’s Ad, get a selfie.
• Upload your selfie to LinkedIn and use the hashtags #teamdefenceaustralia and #redpiranha

Hash tags

#cybersecurity #infosec #perth #australia #technology #westernaustralia #wa #cyber #instagram #scam #bounty #CISA #vulnerability #google #conti #phishing #password #passwordless #scams #microsoft # macro

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The content of this podcast is the opinions of hosts and guests and does not represent the views, thoughts and opinions of their respective employers, partners or stakeholders.

This podcast is co-produced in partnership with CyberWest, the WA Cybersecurity Innovation hub in Joondalup.

Driving Growth in the WA Cybersecurity sector.

For more information, go to cyberwesthub.au.

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Season 4 Episode 4 The S in IOT stands for Security

Articles

Story 1

Qantas fixes data breach after passengers' personal details shared - ABC News

Story 2

Authentication failure blamed for Change Healthcare ransomware attack | CSO Online (ampproject.org)

https://amp.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/family-violence-and-sex-assault-victims-exposed-in-monash-health-data-breach-20240503-p5foni.html

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ransomware/2024/03/alphv-ransomware-gang-fakes-own-death-fools-no-one

Main Topic

No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK | Data and computer security | The Guardian (ampproject.org)

Event Calendar - 

Cyberwest Summit 15/5 16/5

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

Social Media

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68420795

https://www.9news.com.au/national/mike-burgess-asio-speech-australian-politician-sold-out-their-country-spy-boss-reveals/9201ec83-63a4-48c1-96f0-1d6abf01e644

Medicare Hackers

https://cybernews.com/news/medibank-hacker-detained-russia/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-22/russian-ermakov-reportedly-detained-medibank-cyber-crime/103497194

Scammers strike everyday Australia

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/online-scam-heartless-scammers-use-apple-gift-cards-to-steal-1m-from-lonely-grandfather/356a046c-8847-4364-8324-703200611df7

• Website - Cyberwesthub.au
• Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au
• Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ
• Social Media
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastCyber
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Show Notes

Season 4 Episode 1 Was it really the MOAB?

Articles

AU Govt names and sanctions Medibank Hacker

https://amp-smh-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/identity-of-medibank-hacker-confirmed-government-invokes-cyber-sanctions-20240123-p5ezbl.html

Deepfake nets scammers US$25million https://www.businessinsider.com/deepfake-coworkers-video-call-company-loses-millions-employee-ai-2024-2

Main Topic

MOAB - Is it really?

https://blog.knowbe4.com/unprecedented-cybersecurity-alert-26-billion-records-exposed-in-mega-data-breach

Contacts

Website - Cyberwesthub.au

Email - westcoastcyber@cyberwesthub.au

Discord - https://discord.gg/kwsmDBUZKZ

Social Media

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Twitter https://twitter.com/WestCoastCybr

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Insta https://www.instagram.com/westcoastcyber/

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2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy (homeaffairs.gov.au)

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Gemma’s passion for driving diversity and solving the persistent issue of tech

talent shortage has become a key focus. Now Gemma's unique approach to

solving the tech talent shortage with Akkodis has helped to create a more

inclusive and innovative tech industry, paving the way for the next generation

of tech talent.

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technological innovation using telecoms, games and robots as virtual

collaboration tools. Her applied knowledge of information architecture, A.I.,

storytelling and human-computer interaction goes across media and across

disciplines. Her production experience for screen and digital media includes

the design of real, virtual and mixed-reality environments for music,

commerce, medicine, disaster resilience, wellness, film/TV, publishing and

online learning. She has produced Hollywood script materials for MTV, ETV,

Fox, CBS and Working Title. She has exhibited digital artworks at Pratt

Institute of Arts and Engineering New York, the Science Museum at Trinity

College Dublin and Melbourne Museum. She has pioneered user-experience

and avatar design for virtual environments and she gets un-plugged in her

spare time by playing drums and producing physical theatre. Her PhD in

Media Ecology is from New York University.

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For more about Hyprfire, go to https://hyprfire.com/ and find Stefan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/redezem/

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For more about Greensquare DC, go to https://greensquaredc.com/ and find Walt on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/walt-coulston-2529833/

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For more about KineticIT, go to https://kineticit.com.au/ and find Vannessa on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vannessavanbeek/

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For more about the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre go to cisc.gov.au and find Sam on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-grunhard-64ab62bb/

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For more about Whitehawk, go to Whitehawk.com and find Terry on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-roberts-193493143/

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