10 Aug 2023

Tech: AI vs account security, firearms breach, Microsoft hack

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 10 August 2023

Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Susie to talk about how the security questions we rely on to our secure our accounts ..."what's your mum's maiden name?", "your first pet's name" could be vulnerable in the age of AI.

A simple process error was behind the release of names on the Firearms Register, Tony looks at how it could've been avoided.

Microsoft has been the subject of an attack by Chinese hackers, while the GCSB says Russia was behind a DDoS attack on the Parliamentary website and Tony will talk about why he believes MikroTik routers should be avoided.

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