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Tech Talks With Kinsoft
Tech Talks with Kinsoft is your insider pass to the ever-evolving world of technology. We break down the latest in tech news, cybersecurity trends, and emerging innovations shaping our digital future. Whether you’re a seasoned IT pro, a curious techie, or a business leader navigating digital transformation, our conversations are packed with insights, real-world takeaways, and a healthy dose of tech-savvy clarity. Hosted by the Kinsoft team with decades of industry expertise—because in tech…
Episodes
Tech Talks With KinsoftCourt Services Victoria – A Hearing-Link List, 28,600 Lines, and the Victims Nobody Can Name
In July 2026, someone accessed the system Victorian courts use to link participants to online hearings. Not the case management system - the joining list. Four…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Google Reshuffles Its AI Empire, Washington Writes a Rulebook It Won't Show You, and Memory Sold Out to 2030
Your Monday roundup of the technology and security news that matters to Australian businesses, covering 3-9 August 2026.In this episode:Google's AI leadership…
Tech Talks With KinsoftThirty Towns Without Water Controls – Minnesota, Rigged PLCs, and the Bug That Can't Be Patched
Over two days in late July, a coordinated attack disrupted water and wastewater operations across more than 30 Minnesota communities — Braham's well and…
Tech Talks With KinsoftGO2 Health – A Veterans' Clinic, One Mailbox, and the Twelve Weeks Nobody Was Told
A Brisbane medical practice serving thousands of veterans lost Department of Veterans' Affairs ID numbers from a single email mailbox after a phishing attack —…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – A Record $450 Billion Day, $720 Billion of AI Capex, and the Memory Bill Landing on Your Desk
Big Tech's June quarter delivered the largest single-day market value gain in history — Microsoft added roughly US$450 billion on the back of 43% Azure growth…
Tech Talks With KinsoftSonicWall SMA1000 – Zero-Days at the Edge, Stolen MFA Seeds, and a Password Called admin:admin
Two SonicWall SMA1000 flaws — an unauthenticated SSRF rated a perfect 10.0 (CVE-2026-15409) and a path-traversal-to-root bug (CVE-2026-15410) — were exploited…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLifeline Australia – A Serial Hacker, Doctored Data, and the Charity Sector's Security Gap
Australia's best-known crisis-support charity confirmed a breach after a serial hacker known as "2019" dumped 10,000+ staff and volunteer records on an…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Claude Opus 5, a Patchless Java Zero-Day, and EY's Support-Desk Breach
Frontier AI gets cheaper from two directions this week: Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 lands at unchanged pricing with state-of-the-art benchmarks, while Moonshot…
Tech Talks With KinsoftWhen the Hacker Was the AI – How OpenAI's Own Models Breached Hugging Face
The industry's long-predicted "agentic attacker" arrived — and it was wearing a lab coat. Hugging Face disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure by…
Tech Talks With KinsoftOrigin Energy – A 3:40am Email, an Extortionist Called "John Doe", and Millions of Customers in Limbo
Australia's largest energy retailer confirmed unauthorised access to customer data after an extortionist calling themselves "John Doe" took the story to…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – The AI Capex Reckoning, AMD's Anthropic Deal, and WordPress Under Attack
The market finally asks AI to show its receipts. This week: Alphabet and Tesla beat on revenue but get hammered for record capex — the Nasdaq's worst day since…
Tech Talks With KinsoftCoca-Cola's Fairlife – The Ransomware Attack That Stopped the Milk
This week's global deep-dive is about ransomware you can see on a supermarket shelf. On 16 July, Coca-Cola disclosed in a formal SEC filing that its…
Tech Talks With KinsoftPartnered Health – A GP Network Breach, 21 Clinics, and a Court Order Against Criminals
This week's Australian deep-dive is a confirmed breach at Partnered Health, the operator of more than 60 medical, skin-cancer and allied-health clinics…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – China's Open-Source Shock, TSMC's Record Quarter, and a 570-Flaw Patch Tuesday
Your Monday catch-up on the week in tech, with a security lens. China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 — the largest open-weight model ever, at 2.8 trillion…
Tech Talks With KinsoftAssuranceAmerica – One Stolen Password, Seven Million Exposed
A global breach that turned on the most ordinary failure there is — one stolen employee login. US auto insurer AssuranceAmerica has begun notifying almost…
Tech Talks With KinsoftTeletrac Navman – 3,000 Fleets' Live GPS Data Allegedly Up for Sale
An alleged Australian breach that turns a mundane operational tool into a physical-safety question. A criminal on a hacking forum claims to have captured a…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – The AI Boom's Memory-and-Power Bill, Microsoft's 4,800 Cuts, and a Perfect-10 ColdFusion Flaw
Your Monday catch-up on the week in tech, with a security lens. This week the real AI story wasn't a model — it was the physical bill coming due. Samsung posts…
Tech Talks With KinsoftDHS HSIN – When "Unclassified" Doesn't Mean "Low Risk"
A breach at the heart of America's homeland-security apparatus - and a masterclass in why "unclassified" is not the same as "unimportant." The US Department of…
Tech Talks With KinsoftReynella East College – Interlock's First Australian Victim Dumps 600GB of School Data
A confronting Australian breach that puts schools squarely in the firing line. Reynella East College - a public preschool-to-Year-12 school in Adelaide's south…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Big Tech's "We'll Build It For You" Land Grab, a Cheaper Claude, and a CitrixBleed Sequel
Your Monday catch-up on the week that was in tech, with a security lens. This week: the AI giants pivot from selling software to selling people - Microsoft…
Tech Talks With KinsoftNissan – ShinyHunters Turn an Oracle Zero-Day into a Payroll Nightmare
The Oracle PeopleSoft campaign we've been tracking just claimed a big-name victim. Nissan has disclosed that employee data across the Americas — potentially…
Tech Talks With KinsoftMackay Sugar – "The Gentlemen" Ransomware Halts Australia's Sugar Heartland
An Australian ransomware story you can taste. Mackay Sugar — the country's second-largest raw sugar producer — was hit by the ransomware crew "The Gentlemen"…
Tech Talks With KinsoftGeneration Life – A Third-Party Breach Reaches the Financial Sector
Australian life-investment firm Generation Life has confirmed that some customers' personal information was caught up in a cyber attack it first disclosed back…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Anthropic vs Alibaba, OpenAI's Own Chip, and an Emergency Cisco Patch
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Anthropic takes an extraordinary allegation to US lawmakers, accusing Alibaba's Qwen team of the…
Tech Talks With KinsoftKDDI – One Flaw, Six ISPs, 14 Million Exposed Mailboxes
A single vulnerability in one shared platform cascaded across six Japanese internet providers, exposing up to 14.2 million email accounts. Telecoms giant KDDI…
Tech Talks With KinsoftNSW Rural Fire Service – Nova Ransomware Hits an Emergency Service
The NSW Rural Fire Service — the world's largest volunteer fire service — has confirmed a cyber security incident, reported as Australia's first confirmed…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B, Washington Pulls Anthropic's Top Models, and the Klue Breach Spreads
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: SpaceX makes the largest startup acquisition in history, buying AI-coding company Cursor for around $60…
Tech Talks With KinsoftTexas Parks & Wildlife – 3 Million Licences Exposed in a Vendor Breach
A clean, cautionary supply-chain story from the US. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department disclosed that attackers breached the third-party vendor processing…
Tech Talks With KinsoftMackay Sugar – "The Gentlemen" Ransomware Halts Australia's Sugar Heartland
An Australian ransomware story you can taste. Mackay Sugar — the country's second-largest raw sugar producer — was hit by the ransomware crew "The Gentlemen"…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Apple's Gemini-Powered Siri, ShinyHunters Hit PeopleSoft, and the AI-Chip Land Grab
Your Monday catch-up on the week that was in tech, with a security lens. This week: Apple finally reveals its overhauled, AI-powered Siri at WWDC 2026 —…
Tech Talks With KinsoftUnder Armour Breach – 72 Million Customer Accounts Exposed
In a major global incident, the Everest ransomware group claimed sportswear giant Under Armour as a victim in late 2025, alleging access to around 343GB of…
Tech Talks With KinsoftChampion Homes Data Breach – Inside the DragonForce Ransomware Attack
Sydney home builder Champion Homes has confirmed a cyber incident after the DragonForce ransomware group claimed responsibility for an attack that saw roughly…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Copilot's Billing Backlash, SoftBank's €75B France Bet, and the Klue OAuth Supply-Chain Hit
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: GitHub Copilot switches to token-based billing and developers revolt over surprise bills, Microsoft…
Tech Talks With KinsoftCharter/Spectrum – ShinyHunters Vishing Breach
Charter Communications (Spectrum) confirmed in late May 2026 that it had suffered a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen customer records…
Tech Talks With KinsoftGelatissimo Data Breach – DragonForce and the 352GB Heist
In April 2026, the DragonForce ransomware group claimed it breached Gelatissimo, the Australian artisanal gelato franchise, and listed the company on its dark…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Anthropic's $900B Round, AI Guardrails Stripped in Minutes, and Trellix's Source-Code Breach
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Anthropic is reportedly closing a $30B round at a $900B-plus valuation and projecting its first-ever…
Tech Talks With KinsoftCarnival Corporation Breach – 6 Million Cruise Customers Exposed
On 14 April 2026, Carnival Corporation detected unauthorised activity after a bad actor used social engineering to compromise an employee account. In this…
Tech Talks With KinsoftVSP Solutions – Stormous Hits a Security-Hardware Distributor
VSP Solutions, a NSW distributor of video-security hardware (Hikvision, Axis and similar), became aware of an incident on 13 May 2026; the Stormous group…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Google's Agentic Gemini, the Coding-Agent Gold Rush, and CISA's Own Key Leak
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Google goes all-in on agents at I/O 2026 with Gemini 3.5 and a new any-input video model, Gemini Omni…
Tech Talks With KinsoftBrightspeed – Crimson Collective Claims 1M+ Records
In early January 2026, fiber-broadband provider Brightspeed opened a cybersecurity investigation after a group calling itself Crimson Collective claimed via…
Tech Talks With KinsoftGoodstone Group Breach – Passport Scans Leaked in CMD Ransomware Attack
In May 2026, Tasmanian hospitality group Goodstone Group — which runs hotels, restaurants, bars and bottleshops across northern Tasmania — confirmed it was…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – AI Writes Its First Zero-Day, OpenAI's Deployment Play, and the Canvas Mega-Breach
Your Monday catch-up on the week that was, with a security lens. This week: researchers document the first known case of attackers using AI to develop a…
Tech Talks With KinsoftMcGraw Hill – 13.5M Exposed via Salesforce Misconfig
Edtech giant McGraw Hill confirmed a breach (dated around 10 April 2026, surfacing mid-April) after ShinyHunters' extortion threat; about 13.5 million accounts…
Tech Talks With KinsoftEnergy Action Breach – SafePay Ransomware Targets an Energy Giant
In early May 2026, the SafePay ransomware group listed Energy Action — an Australian firm that manages energy procurement for a large share of the country's…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Microsoft's Agents Go GA, the Canvas Mega-Breach Escalates, and DigiCert's Cert Compromise
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Microsoft makes its AI agents generally available at Build, and the ShinyHunters Canvas breach escalates…
Tech Talks With KinsoftMedtronic – ShinyHunters Hits a Medical-Device Giant
ShinyHunters listed Medtronic on its leak site on 17 April 2026, claiming more than 9 million records; Medtronic confirmed the breach on 24 April alongside an…
Tech Talks With KinsoftCanvas LMS Data Breach – Australian Schools and Universities Hit
In May 2026, Instructure disclosed a cyber security incident affecting Canvas, the learning management platform used widely across Australian universities…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – OpenAI Breaks Its Microsoft Lock-In, Big Tech's $650B AI Bill, and the Salesforce Breach Wave
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: OpenAI loosens its Microsoft exclusivity and goes live on AWS, and Big Tech's quarterly earnings push…
Tech Talks With KinsoftFrance's ANTS ID Registry – 11.7M Accounts Exposed
France's ANTS (Agence nationale des titres sécurisés / France Titres), the Interior-Ministry body managing ID cards, passports, driver's licences and…
Tech Talks With KinsoftGregory Jewellers Data Breach – Kairos Ransomware Claims 574GB
In April 2026, the Kairos ransomware group claimed responsibility for breaching Gregory Jewellers, an Australian family-owned luxury jewellery retailer…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Meta's 8,000 Job Cuts, Medtronic's Breach, and a $290M Crypto Heist
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Meta cuts around 8,000 jobs to fund its AI build-out. On the breach desk it's a heavy week — Medtronic…
Tech Talks With KinsoftADT – ShinyHunters Vishing Breach Hits 5.5M
Home-security firm ADT detected unauthorized access around 20 April 2026; the breach became public when extortion group ShinyHunters listed ADT on its leak…
Tech Talks With KinsoftNSW Treasury Insider Breach – 5,600 Sensitive Documents Exfiltrated
In April 2026, NSW Treasury disclosed a significant insider data breach: a staffer on its commercial team allegedly exfiltrated more than 5,600 sensitive…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Patch Tuesday's Two Zero-Days, Rockstar's Vendor Breach, and Amazon's $11.6B Satellite Bet
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Microsoft's Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws including two zero-days, Rockstar Games is breached through a…
Tech Talks With KinsoftBooking.com – Hotel-Partner Breach Fuels Travel Scams
Around 13 April 2026 Booking.com began notifying customers that unauthorized third parties had accessed guest reservation data — not by breaching Booking.com…
Tech Talks With Kinsoft3P Corporation – Space Bears Claims a Melbourne Finance Firm
The Space Bears ransomware group listed Melbourne financial-services firm 3P Corporation in early April 2026 (post dated 10 April; incident said to be 7…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – Anthropic's Exploit-Writing Model, Meta Goes Closed-Source, and a Critical Notebook RCE
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Anthropic gives security partners early access to a frontier model so capable it wrote 181 working…
Tech Talks With KinsoftFoster City, California – Ransomware Halts a City
On 19 March 2026, IT staff in Foster City, California identified ransomware on the city's networks. The city declared a local state of emergency and suspended…
Tech Talks With KinsoftQilin's WA Spree – Esperance Metaland
Part of the same early-2026 Qilin spree: Esperance Metaland, a Western Australian regional business, was added to Qilin's leak site on 21 February 2026. With…
Tech Talks With KinsoftLast Week in Tech – OpenAI's $122B Round, Oracle's Mass Layoffs, and a Backdoor in a Top npm Package
Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: OpenAI closes a record $122B round, Oracle makes its largest-ever job cuts to fund AI, and Google ships…