Tony Grasso
Tech: Mediaworks hack, cyber-crime rescue, recycled malware
Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at cybersecurity firm TitaniumDefence. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand. Audio
Technology: How law enforcement took down the Lockbit ransomware gang
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso looks at how Lockbit, the world's largest ransomware gang, was taken down by law authorities. Audio
Tech: Sellafield hack, Russian attacks, scams numbers up
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about who was likely behind the hacking of Sellafield, Europe's largest nuclear site. New Minister for the GCSB Judith Collins has spoken out… Audio
Tech: LastPass breach, Five Eyes' spy warning, stolen DNA data
Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about popular password manager LastPass and how it's been breached five times - with the latest netting the release of credentials for users'… Audio
Tech: Las Vegas casinos hit by cyber attack, new bank scam doing the rounds
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the huge ransomware attack that's affected casinos in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment have both fallen… Audio
Tech: AI vs account security, firearms breach, Microsoft hack
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… Audio
Tech: Ransoms drop, DDoS attacks hit gaming industry
Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the big drop in earnings cyber-crime gangs are experiencing as victims refuse to pay ransomware demands. Audio
Tech: Spanish cyber-crime arrests
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about Spanish police taking down a massive crime ring that had defrauded more than 300,000 people. Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at… Audio
New technology with Tony Grasso
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso talks to Susie Ferguson about a group of Chinese scientists who recently quietly posted a paper purporting to show how a combination of classical and quantum… Audio
Cyber attack hits agencies, Apple kills plans to scan phones
Cyber security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at how government agencies have been affected by a cyber attack on an external company, Mercury IT. He says it's likely the company will be an… Audio
Technology: Demise of Symantec, China hardware concerns, Blackbyte ransomware
Tech correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at what's happened to Symantec - it was one of the first IT security companies to develop commercial anti-virus software, but is anti-virus "dead"… Audio
Tech: Taiwan cyber attacks, NHS suffers DDoS, 100m affected by worker's data theft
Tech commentator Tony Grasso joins Susie to talk about the cyber attacks on Taiwan amid rising tensions with China, a DDoS attack on Britain's National Health Service. He'll also look at why insider… Audio
Tech: Override Panda's new phishing attack, Cozy Bear targets diplomats
Cyber-security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the new spear-phishing email doing the rounds from Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Override Panda. He'll also look at how Russian… Audio
Tech: US eye on Russian cyber firm, teen hackers arrested
Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at why Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been added to the national security threat list by the FCC. He'll also talk about a… Audio
Tech: FluBot texts, Tesla's brake software fail, REvil charges laid
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at how the FluBot malware is spreading by text, rather than email. A software error that causes Tesla's autopilot to slam on the brakes… Audio
Vocus DDoS attack, Lockfile - a new threat to your data
Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Lynn to talk about yesterday's DDoS attacks on a number of banks, NZ Post and Metservice and last week's attack on Vocus, the country's third largest internet… Audio
Technology commentator Tony Grasso
Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at an AI system that can replicate your voice, including pitch, timbre and pace - but that are the scam implications. Research finds young… Audio
Cyber-security expert Tony Grasso on the Waikato DHB attack
Tony joins Kathryn to talk about the latest developments from the cyber attack on the Waikato DHB. Audio
Colonial Pipeline and REvil's latest attack, IOS 14.5
Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at the Colonial Pipeline hack that's reduced supply to the US east coast and hiked prices, the latest cyber attack by REvil/Sodin on healthcare… Audio
Media company hacked, Facebook users' data leaked
Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the cyber attack that knocked Nine Entertainment, owner of the Sydney Morning Herald, off air and offline. Meanwhile the details of… Audio