Podcasts about road toll

Queensland's road toll in 2024 reached a 15-year high with a total of 302 lives lost across the year. Of the 302 lives lost, eight of them were from people using e-scooters, e-skateboards or solo wheels. QPS Acting Superintendent of the Road Policing Group, Steve Newland told Shane Doherty on 4BC Summer Drive, "Within those 302 lives lost, we're still seeing in about 95% of those cases at least one of the fatal five as a contributing factor." "That includes speeding, drink and drug driving, distraction, failing to wear a seatbelt and fatigue," Acting Superintendent Newland said.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The week began optimistically as the road toll was believed to be heading for the lowest rates in a decade. Data reveals that last year actually saw the lowest rate of road deaths per capita in a century. 289 people died on the roads, which is the lowest number per capita since 1923. Development director at Break New Zealand Caroline Perry joins the show. LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The annual road toll could be the lowest recorded in 10 years and potentially the lowest per capita in a century. 290 people have died on New Zealand roads so far this year, as of 9pm December 29, equating to about five deaths per 100,000 population. That is down from around seven for most of the last decade. AA Road Safety Spokesperson Dylan Thomsen talks to Tim Beveridge about this milestone. LISTEN ABOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) They Keep Buying Into the Narrative/It Was Zero. Who Cares Why?/Boy Racers Make No Sense/Baseball Makes No Sense/Loud Engines Make No SenseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Queensland Police Service Acting Superintendent Peter Flanders joined Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast to discuss what needs to be done to crackdown on speeding hoons in the wake of a driver doing 150km/h in a 60km/h zone getting a lean sentence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Police Minister is signalling a law change to crack down on boy racers after a violent brawl in Wairarapa on Saturday. Videos of men smashing a car's windows and beating up its driver are circulating on social media. The boy racers also threw bottles, rocks, and fireworks at police, with several people now facing charges. Minister Mark Mitchell told Kerre Woodham he is working on legislation with the Ministers for Justice and Transport. He says they hope to progress changes to give police teeth to clamp down on boy racers before the end of the year. Mitchell is also praising motorists for the part they played in New Zealand's zero road-toll Labour Weekend. It's a new record for the period, with the previous lowest being in 2013 with one person dead and 109 injured. Mitchell says told Kerre that this remarkable feat is down to people driving safely, as well as the work of Police over the long weekend. He says full credit goes to the Police and the work they're doing, but also to motorists, who need some credit in the fact they've been careful over the long weekend. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The road toll is sitting at zero for the long weekend. Six people died last Labour Weekend, which is a tragedy. The road toll is the lowest Labour Weekend toll since 2013, when we had one death on the roads. Why do we think this has happened this particular weekend? Is it the Road to Zero that the previous government introduced? Is it the fact we've had some road upgrades, some potholes fixed potentially? Or is it just random stats? You know, we should really be looking at annual averages, not weekend blips which can jump around – a bit like our weekend of sport last weekend, which was a bit of a con job. It just so happened we had a bunch of sporting finals on the same weekend, it wasn't like we were comparing apples with apples like an Olympics tournament, was it? So, was it one of those situations? Or, and here's my theory, we didn't really travel much this weekend – and this is based on nothing other than my own experience. But I was on Waiheke Island at the weekend, enjoying the long weekend. Beaches were nowhere near as full as they would normally be, and this was on the good day when the weather was nice. Restaurants, same story. The wineries, the vineyards weren't as busy. Is the cost of living crisis affecting our travel? I think it is, I think it's having a big impact. Did you go away this weekend? Did you pack the car? Take the kids? Were you driving safely? That is one theory I have as to why our Labour Day road toll is currently sitting at zero. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rolls and insurance premiums on the rise! Tolls to increase for M50, national roads and Dublin Tunnel from January 1 Geraldine Herbert Sunday Independent Motoring Editor joined Pat with more on this.

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Matthew Pantelis speaks with Adam Wilmot, GHD Technical Director Road and Civil Infrastructure who says urgent action is needed to stop the growing road tolls. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Glenn Weir joined Jacqui Felgate in the studio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Australia has experienced deadliest 12 months on our roads, in 12 years Kids Helpline says bullying is rife in our schools Injury woes for Panthers super star Nathan Cleary And charges laid over the death of Matthew PerrySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia has experienced deadliest 12 months on our roads, in 12 years Kids Helpline says bullying is rife in our schools Injury woes for Panthers super star Nathan Cleary And charges laid over the death of Matthew PerrySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matthew Pantelis speaks with Super intendent Darren Fielke, Officer in charge, Traffic Services, SAPOL and Cameron Wearing, Australian Driving Institute on the spare of fatalities on our roads. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The former Road Safety Council chair Murray Lampard says the Road Safety Commission is “missing in action” as the WA road toll continues to climb. Adrian Worner, the Road Safety Commissioner joined Gary Adshead on 6PR Mornings to discuss how the Road Safety Commission are using funds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I may not have been flying to Brazil, but it took me almost as long to get from the North Shore to Auckland city on Friday night. There was a serious crash just before the Harbour Bridge and as fate would have it, I was due to meet friends to go to the Chelsea Handler show. Had I known what Chelsea Handler was going to be like, I wouldn't have made the effort. I'm sure she was all very risky and shocking and wowseballs when she first came on the scene, but it was all a bit dull really. But never mind, at least I have an opinion - and it was a night out and you meet your people. But an hour and a half to get there in what would normally be a 25 minute trip? An hour and a half. It would be great to have a better alternative than a 1 hour 30 minute trip into town when something happens. I can't see a second Harbour Bridge in my lifetime, or indeed the lifetime of the next two generations, but bring on the Roads of National Significance. Seven roads are being fast tracked and they may well be tolled to help pay for them. It will be up to NZTA to decide whether and which roads will be tolled, but the Transport Minister, Simeon Brown supports a user pays approach. We're open to all types of funding and financing arrangements to get infrastructure built in New Zealand. The reality of the country is that we have an infrastructure deficit. We have had six years where we've had nothing done and we need to get actually make things, get things done faster in New Zealand. And so we've said all options are on the table to get infrastructure built faster in New Zealand and that's why we're putting fast track on the table because otherwise these roads would take years to get consented. New Zealanders are sick and tired of how long it takes to get anything done in New Zealand and as a Government we are we're frustrated about the time it takes that we're breaking through all of those barriers so we can get things done in New Zealand. Yes, what he said. I mean, maybe not all New Zealanders are frustrated at the length of time, but I am. I'm frustrated and annoyed that in six years, there was no progress made. And I don't have a problem at all with having tolls on some roads because by law, an alternative must be offered. So, if you don't want to pay the toll, you don't have to. You don't like tolled roads? Don't drive on them. Really simple. Perhaps Tauranga listeners are in a better place to judge, though. I mean I have no problem at all with paying the toll going north. The road is fantastic and it makes a difference when it's open. So no problem at all with that, because if I didn't want to pay it or felt like taking the scenic route, I could. But perhaps Tauranga is a better place to judge because they have two of the three tolled roads in the country in their district. So perhaps you might be able to offer an insight into what it's like to have the toll roads more than I. I only travel up there every few months and I'm very grateful and happy to pay my $5 or whatever it is for the round trip. But these roads have been in the planning for a decade. Let's get cracking. And absolutely we should just fast track it and get going. A number of the projects have already had the lion's share of the work needed done on them. So all the work was done – costings, measurements, soil engineering, preliminary reports - all ready to go, and then they were shelved and left to gather dust under the previous administration. Communities change in 10 years, so NZTA said they'd have to go back and take a look and see whether some changes were needed, but they won't be starting from scratch. The soil composition is not going to change in ten years. Belfast to Pegasus, Hawke's Bay expressway, SH 1 Cambridge to Piarere, SH 29 Tauriko, Takitimu Northlink Stage 2, Mill Road and Warkworth to Wellsford. Bring it on! LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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For decades, New Zealand's persistently high road toll has been a worry for successive governments. 340 people died on our roads in 2023, down from the previous, but still far too high. 2024 is hardly looking any better – there was more than a day a death in January, the Easter road toll was at its highest in three years, while a recent head-on collision left five dead near Hamilton. It's an issue that is now on the coalition government to address – so what options are available to them to rectify this issue? Today on The Front Page, we discuss what needs to be done differently with AA Road Safety spokesperson Dylan Thomsen. Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Chelsea DanielsSound Engineer: Paddy FoxProducer: Ethan SillsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing at Victoria Police, Glenn Weir, has slammed the "concerning" behaviour of some motorcyclists on Victorian roads amid an alarming road toll.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The number of people killed on Australian Roads has seen an alarming jump Unions slam Coalition's industrial relations proposal Golf champion set to face court after arrestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The number of people killed on Australian Roads has seen an alarming jump Unions slam Coalition's industrial relations proposal Golf champion set to face court after arrestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adah Rodriguez, VP Development and Operations with the Better Business Bureau Southern Colorado, talks about scammer impersonating road toll collection services.

Adah Rodriguez, VP Development and Operations with the Better Business Bureau Southern Colorado, talks about scammer impersonating road toll collection services.

Also in the news: Uber adding new driver safety tool; Mayor Johnson dismisses petition to recall him from office; Naperville's 'Human Library' to open this weekend and more.

Also in the news: Uber adding new driver safety tool; Mayor Johnson dismisses petition to recall him from office; Naperville's 'Human Library' to open this weekend and more.

Also in the news: Uber adding new driver safety tool; Mayor Johnson dismisses petition to recall him from office; Naperville's 'Human Library' to open this weekend and more.

SMS phishing warnings by the FBI and innovative skimming tactics exposed by Sucuri experts. Discover actionable tips to shield yourself and your digital platforms from these sophisticated threats. Join the conversation by sharing your cybersecurity challenges and solutions. 00:00 Kickoff: Live from Cape Canaveral 00:59 Deep Dive into the FBI's Warning on SMS Phishing 06:14 Protecting Yourself Against Smishing and Phishing 13:13 Exploring the Dangers of Default WordPress Credentials Related Articles: FBI warns of massive wave of road toll SMS phishing attacks: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-massive-wave-of-road-toll-sms-phishing-attacks/ https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2024/PSA240412 Sneaky Credit Card Skimmer Disguised as Harmless Facebook Tracker: https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/sneaky-credit-card-skimmer-disguised-as.html https://blog.sucuri.net/2024/04/credit-card-skimmer-hidden-in-fake-facebook-pixel-tracker.html Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won't ever be fixed: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/supply-chain-snafu-causes-intel-and-others-to-ship-hackable-hardware-for-5-years/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_daily_decrypt/ Thanks to Jered Jones for providing the music for this episode. https://www.jeredjones.com/ Logo Design by https://www.zackgraber.com/ Tags for the episode: FBI, SMS phishing, cybersecurity, Sucuri, credit card skimming, Meta Pixel, WordPress, Magento, digital threats, personal data protection, cyber attacks, scam awareness, online security, toll fraud, phishing alerts Search Phrases: FBI SMS phishing alert 2024 How to protect against SMS phishing Sucuri finds credit card skimmer in Meta Pixel script Preventing credit card fraud on WordPress and Magento Latest cyber scams and digital threats Protecting personal information from online scams Understanding toll service phishing scams Cybersecurity tips for digital platforms Identifying fake toll debt notices Enhancing website security against skimmers Transcript: Boyz offsetkeyz: Let's do this so we friggin rocket launch Welcome back to the Daily Decrypt. Coming to you live from Cape Canaveral, Florida. got offsetkeys and dogespan. dogespan: hello. offsetkeyz: we're going to bring you some tasty news. Up first, the FBI has sounded the alarm on a massive SMS phishing wave sweeping across the U. S., targeting unsuspecting individuals with bogus road toll debt notices as part of a sophisticated scam aimed at harvesting personal data. What can you do to protect yourself from falling victim to these SMS phishing scams? dogespan: Cybersecurity experts at Securi have unearthed a cunning credit card skimmer disguised within a fake Metapixel tracker script. Cleverly hidden in customizable code sections of widely used platforms like WordPress and Magneto. How can website administrators safeguard their platforms against such stealthy credit card skimming attacks? offsetkeyz: Alright, so the first story comes to you straight from the FBI, and what better way to deliver the news than to just read the memo that the FBI released. So, here we go. Since early March of 2024, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, has received over 2, 000 complaints reporting smishing texts representing road toll collection services from at least three states. The FBI does not mention which three states, so, good luck. The IC3 complaint information indicates the scam may be moving from state to state. Nice. The texts will look something like this. We've noticed an outstanding toll amount of 12. 51 on your record. To avoid a late fee of $50, visit some URL to settle your balance. dogespan: true. And offsetkeyz: true. dogespan: part offsetkeyz: part of the reason dogespan: that so many users have gotten hit, is because If I got a bill for 12, I'd click and pay. And offsetkeyz: the mail. The road department is going to know your phone number. They're not. Your license plate is linked to your address, and then they mail it to you there. dogespan: you there. So, offsetkeyz: So, any text you're getting probably isn't coming from them unless you signed up for it, in which case you would know. The texts claim the recipient owes money for unpaid tolls and contain almost identical language. The outstanding toll amount is similar among the complaints reported to the dogespan: the IC3. offsetkeyz: However, the link provided within the text is created to impersonate the state's toll service name, and phone numbers appear to change between states. ok so they're at least like masqurading as that state Yeah, they are, they are targeting specific states, yes. Which is an easy tactic to take, probably takes the attackers very little time, dogespan: oh yeah offsetkeyz: and is very effective. dogespan: Yeah. So if you receive one of these texts, the following is suggested file a complaint with the IC3 at www.IC3.gov texts I'm gonna admit, I'm actually really guilty of never reporting those names, those scams. I get them all the time. Text messages for like UPS deliveries and stuff. But also like, yeah, I never think of reporting it to the IC3. But I do tend to put on my security researcher hat and offsetkeyz: on dogespan: go click the link. On a safe device, it is always, don't try it at home unless you, you know, know how to virtualize and segment and all that stuff. Um, But yeah, that's usually my approach is I just want to learn what they're doing and I offsetkeyz: report it as dogespan: guess I need to report it as well because it's stopping at me if nobody else reports it. offsetkeyz: I, until you said that, I didn't even consider reporting anything to whom I didn't, I don't know. So I think I've mentioned before on the podcast that you can report things to the FBI, but I personally have never done it. So, yeah, I think both of us, both dogespan and I's takeaway is that we're going to start reporting stuff and imagine how many people also don't report things. So 2, 000 reports came in to the FBI. dogespan: in to the offsetkeyz: Is probably hitting hundreds of thousands of dogespan: people. Yeah, like a, I don't know, what is that, 10%? Yeah. offsetkeyz: What's the reporting rate? How do you study that? I don't know. Not my problem, but if it does happen to you, it really helps dogespan: FBI offsetkeyz: the FBI understand the severity of the situation by you reporting it and they can gather the information. That's your tax dollars hard at work. So make sure you get your bang for your buck there. dogespan: so there. offsetkeyz: So, Pennsylvania Turnpike officials have reacted to these threats by advising customers to avoid clicking on any suspicious links sent via text that claim to resolve outstanding toll amounts. So, by hearing that article, that's mentioned in the article from Bleeping Computer, so Pennsylvania is one of those states. Thanks. They emphasize the importance of deleting the phishing texts immediately, which is interesting. Additionally, the Pennsylvania State Police have issued warnings about these deceptive texts, stressing that the links lead to counterfeit websites designed to harvest personal information. So, they're not coming after money at this point. They're trying to get your credentials to unlock even more than dogespan: credentials to unlock even more than 12. Yeah, this is very offsetkeyz: Yeah, this is very smart, because those types of things keep a lot of people up at night. Unpaid debts, that people are very scared of the banking systems and the credit scores and all that stuff. So if you have this threat of an unpaid debt. And you have the means to afford to pay that unpaid debt, You're gonna go on and hastily pay that so that you can sleep well at night. So in the spirit of security awareness, what can you do as the listener to identify these types of smishing, it's a fun word to say, you should say it, smishing, smishing attack text messages. This podcast, I often mention hanging up the phone and calling the source or the claimed source of text messages or phone calls. So if you're getting a call from, or if you're getting a text message from this toll company, one way to verify is to go Google it, right? Google that toll company, find the website, don't click on the Google ad. Go find the actual listing for the website, go to that website, fill out a contact us form, And say, hey, I received a text that says I have unclaimed debts. Is that real? pro tip from someone who hasn't paid most of their toll fees. They don't. It's not urgent They they'll keep that debt on ya for a while and yeah it might go up a few pennies a couple pennies but honestly I don't think it does I think they come after that toll and that's it the only times I've seen it is if they're tied into the registrationl so when you go to renew your registration it. guys, dogespan: toll. Yeah. offsetkeyz: It might seem easy to pay 12, but you know, there's a lot more at risk than just 12 for your data. I'm, I'm curious if these attackers have infiltrated some sort of toll system, or if they're just shooting them off at random. Because the only other attack, which you had mentioned earlier, is the USPS or UPS package incoming, and what's crazy about that one, dogespan: about offsetkeyz: a family dogespan: one is I always have a package incoming when I get those. offsetkeyz: why are they texting me about my package? Oh, it's not them. I'm going to have to do some research into that because it's just occurring to me now that dogespan: me now offsetkeyz: I always have a package on the way. But luckily the attackers who have purchased that information, or the ones who are conducting the smishing of the UPS, haven't figured it all out yet. I have a screenshot from one of my most recent ones that came from a sexyboy69 at gmail. com text. That's the dogespan: That's the trend. Yes, they've been compromising email accounts to send these out. offsetkeyz: send these out. dogespan: Or they are making bogus. But I've gotten an AOL and a Yahoo before. offsetkeyz: Interesting. there's always some typos, so keep your eye out for typos. In the age of chat GPT and, and large language models, you don't really even have to speak English to get a coherent, smishing message out there. So like, honestly, attackers, there's no excuse for this. Come on, but dogespan: Keep offsetkeyz: keep, yeah, keep an eye out for those indicators. Check with the source. Don't click any links unless you're absolutely positive. Um, if anyone calls you, try to hang up. Like, I, I, you know, moment of truth, I received a call from, I believe it was Pretty Litter, cat litter delivery service, because I cancel my credit card once a year just to, you know, shed all the subscriptions and have to re subscribe, and right after I canceled it, they called and asked for 80 bucks, and I just gave them the new credit card number without calling back, and I felt icky about it. So, dogespan: Did your litter offsetkeyz: anyways, if someone calls you, doesn't matter who it is, Don't give them your credit card information, call them back. It's like, it's inconvenient, but it's going to save you a lot of hassle on the backend. dogespan: I was in that generative AI. Red teaming talk this morning. This, uh, this talk goes into a quick demonstration on a phishing text, er, a phishing email that was created to target a cyber security professional as a test. . So, they targeted Dave Kennedy in this phishing email. And What they did is they sent several GPT agents Scouring the web for personal information about Dave Kennedy. And one of the things that I think has been very prominent in his more recent endeavors is health and, offsetkeyz: know, taking dogespan: um, weight management, you know, taking care of your body, fitness, all of that. So it actually crafted up a really good phishing email that was like, hi, Dave. Um, This is the bodybuilding. com community representative or whatever, and we want to bring you on as a offsetkeyz: you on dogespan: community advocate offsetkeyz: advocate dogespan: or something. And it, it totally like spoke to his interests, and he even, he even said, like as he received that, they were tweeting him, like they gave him a heads up and everything, but he was like, I 100 percent would have clicked on offsetkeyz: have clicked dogespan: And it's a, that's a cyber security offsetkeyz: cyber security dogespan: Yeah. So these generative AIs are getting better and most attackers may not be using it to the full extent, but there will be ones out there that are going to be really good, like the lego. com one we talked about previously. Yeah, that might get me. offsetkeyz: lego. com one we talked about. You're probably going to get me, so there you go. What was that? Did they use ChatGPT officially? I'm mostly curious because, yeah, ChatGPT has built in, safeguards against any malicious activity, so if you ask it for anything that can be used maliciously, like craft a phishing text or craft something that someone would be manipulated by, it's gonna say no, so, dogespan: That goes into just tricking the AI, because you could very easily just say, Hey, you know, this person, here's a couple social media profiles, go find more info on them. And then you say, okay, you know, how can I appeal to this person's interest in an email or something? And offsetkeyz: that's a whole nother conversation we could get into where you can actually give prompts to ChatGPT to make it do whatever you want because large language models like ChatGPT are very smart and very dumb. And they are not very refined. So that's, that's super interesting. The talk that dogespan was mentioning is called Red, Blue, Purple AI, practical AI for security dogespan: security practitioners. offsetkeyz: the speaker is Jason Haddix. dogespan: Yeah, it was a really good presentation. offsetkeyz: Great job, Jason. Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a deviously camouflaged credit card skimmer masquerading as a seemingly harmless metapixel tracker script. Researchers at Sikuri have pinpointed this malware, which sneaks onto websites through seemingly benign tools that permit custom code. plugins such as Simple Custom CSS and JS. dogespan: or offsetkeyz: the miscellaneous scripts section of the Magento admin panel. So that's a little bit of technical jargon. to do a bit more research to figure out like what the heck is even a metapixel tracker. but if you've ever had a business or a website, and you've subscribed to Google Analytics, It's a little snippet of code that you can place in the HTML that allows Google Analytics to track web page visits and other data points on web traffic. And Facebook or Meta has the same sort of thing for your website. They do Facebook analytics. And so this Meta pixel tracker script is essentially that. You add it to your website and Meta is allowed to track it. So that. That isn't what's happening here, but it is what it's being disguised as. These little scripts are coming in and they're trying to look like Metapixel tracker scripts so they don't get picked up by signature detectors or things like that. But what they're actually doing, which is pretty interesting, is it's a piece of code that identifies if you're on a checkout page. So if your WordPress site has a shop, and that shop, Allows you to pay inside the WordPress app. That little snippet of code is able to identify that this is a checkout page. And it just turns on and starts listening for your credit card number. security Researcher at Securi. Securi, Highlighted the risk posed by custom script editors. Custom script editors are popular with bad actors because they allow for external third party and malicious JavaScript and can easily pretend to be benign by leveraging naming conventions that match popular scripts like Google jQuery. dogespan: Google Analytics or libraries like jQuery. offsetkeyz: Lol. dogespan: law, yeah, where the attacker will try to replicate what is normal within an environment. So in this case, it is the website. So they're masquerading as a typical analytics, but it has a malicious intent of scraping of the credit cards. So as mentioned before, this bogus script mimics the legitimate megapixel tracker. offsetkeyz: However, a deeper inspection revealed a sinister twist. It stealthily replaces references to the authentic connect. facebook. net with a malicious beconnected. com. This rogue domain is then used to load a harmful script, fbevents. js, which targets victims on checkout pages by deploying a fraudulent overlay designed to capture their credit card information. I see, I see. So, it may look exactly the same as the regular checkout page, but it's an overlay, and you're actually entering it into some sort of dogespan: sort of iframe or offsetkeyz: iframe, or div, or something else that's sending the information somewhere else. So it's crucial to note that beconnected. com itself is a legitimate e commerce website, which at some point was compromised to serve this skimmer code. WordPress is notorious for going, unup updated. There's so many plugins that all require separate security updates, and you're lucky if that plugin is still maintained and offering security updates. But since it's a commercial tool and often free, WordPress I mean, the people running their WordPress sites aren't the most security minded, or they don't have time to go in once a week and update their plugins. So, spoiler alert, the best way to combat this type of attack is to go into WordPress. And we're using WordPress as an example to go into WordPress and update your plugins, but also take a look at the users tab and just see if there are any users in there that shouldn't be in there. That would be a pretty key indicator. If there are, delete that user, revoke all login sessions. dogespan: yeah, offsetkeyz: don't know either. I bet they do. Or you can enable more verbose logging to get that information. But I think they do. And there are a lot of free security plugins out there. I don't know which one we use. But every time I go into the WordPress dashboard, it says 15, 000 login attempts blocked. And I said, great, keep blocking them. dogespan: Let me know when they get in. offsetkeyz: Yeah, let me know if there are any that weren't dogespan: are any that weren't blocked. Um, offsetkeyz: this is my first WordPress website. TheDailyDecrypt. com. Plug, plug, plug. Have you ever worked with WordPress before? Yeah, dogespan: experiment. Yeah, offsetkeyz: which is how this started out too. And when we started this, we started this together. dogespan: WordPress offsetkeyz: creates a default account for you. And the username is user and the password is always the same. I don't remember what it is because I promptly deleted that, but you can Google it and it will say, this is the default WordPress credentials. And I would imagine that many WordPress administrators out there without any technical expertise, continue to use those default login credentials. And so if you do. dogespan: do, offsetkeyz: It's very easy to access your WordPress admin portal and set this type of credit card skimmer up. dogespan: you remember if it prompts you at any point to offsetkeyz: It does not. dogespan: not. Fantastic. offsetkeyz: It does not, and it's actually kind of complicated to delete an account. I had a hard time. I don't know if I actually could delete it, but I did change the password if I didn't delete it and revoke admin privileges and do all this stuff, but yeah, WordPress is not designed around security. And I, I think it's just not talked about enough how bad it is to use default credentials. It's significantly worse than reusing passwords, even if those passwords have been compromised on the dark web. Using default credentials. Well, first of all, if you have a WordPress site. top The domain, followed by the top level domain, which is the daily decrypt, and then dot com, slash admin. A script can easily navigate, do a get, for all of these things, to check even if it's a WordPress site. And then once, if they've determined that it is, They can plug in the default credentials and get a count of how many they have now access to. It's very just, automatable. And that is the enemy of defense. You don't want any sort of attack vector to be automatable. You're gonna get got, you just are. So anyways. dogespan: gonna getcha. offsetkeyz: They're gonna get ya. dogespan: getcha. Literally, offsetkeyz: please reach out to us if you're a novice tech person who owns a WordPress site, especially if there's e commerce on there. Either of us would be happy to donate one of our evenings to helping you secure that. It would be mutually beneficial, and your consumers would have a lot more confidence in you. dogespan: And yeah, it'd be great. Yep. Oh yeah. That's true. We offsetkeyz: true. We should. We can replace the metaskimmer's web overlay. 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Overtaking on congested roads, speeding and taking unnecessary risks are some of the reasons police are giving for this Easter's high road toll. They say the weekend serves as a reminder for everything police do not want to see on the roads. Seven people have been killed in crashes over the long weekend. Four people died on State Highway 8 in Pukaki, while another three died in crashes in Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Tasman. Road Policing Director Superintendent Steve Greally spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The AA says the Easter weekend's road toll is another tragic reminder that more needs to be done to increase safety on the roads. Six people died in crashes over the weekend, the highest toll since 2021. AA road safety spokesperson Dylan Thomsen wants to see a heavier police presence on the roads, and for roadside drug testing to be rolled out urgently. He also wants more research on whether reckless or extreme behaviour in vehicle accidents is increasing. Thomsen spoke to Corin Dann.

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Nineteen people have died on the roads over the Christmas New-Year holiday period, with the official toll coming to an end at 6am Wednesday, January 3rd. Last year, there were 21 deaths over the holiday period. Transport groups are urging drivers to still take extra care as the holidays draw to a close. Anna Sargent reports.

Victoria's road toll stands at 296, up almost 25 per cent on last year. Nick McCallum said the toll is one of the great failures in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former VicRoads CEO David Anderson joined Nick McCallum to talk about the road toll and what can be done in 2024 to help lower it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Victorian Shadow Police Minister Brad Battin joined Neil Mitchell following the tragic news out of South Australia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neil Mitchell covered a range of different topics as well with the federal opposition leader including: The "human cost" of the road toll with reference to the death of SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens' son His stance on anti-Semitism His reaction to latest polling numbers and Anthony Albanese's recent visit to China His own personal message to Neil Mitchell ahead of the 3AW Mornings host's final week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing at Victoria Police, Glenn Weir, has detailed the "uplift" in operations to try and reduce the horror road toll in Victoria this year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to Hannah Daly, Professor in Sustainable Energy at University College Cork.

A suggestion the economics in ACT's latest transport policy won't stack up. The Party says it would fund roading infrastructure with toll roads and more public-private partnerships. Greater Auckland Director Matt Lowrie says today's cost of construction means there's no way tolls could pay it off. "Look at something like Transmission Gully- you'd probably be looking at a toll of around $20 per car, per trip to cover the cost of construction. That was before the cost increased by 50 percent." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A simple road toll text scam is taking a massive toll on unsuspecting victims, with one person losing their life savings. The message looks like it comes from legit agency like Waka Kotahi, and encourages you to click on a link and an pay a bill or toll or better still collect a cash prize, but you have to provide personal details. Do not do it. It is dodgy. Deputy Director of Operations at the Department of Internal Affairs John Michael talks to Lisa Owen.

Police are expecting people to maximise Anzac day and take a long weekend - meaning the roads could be chocka, with people returning from school holidays too. Last year 12 people died on the roads over Anzac weekend. And it was a horror start to this week with seven road deaths. National Road Policing Centre Director Superintendent Steve Greally is appealing to drivers to make smart decisions this weekend.

The head of Waka Kotahi's Road to Zero campaign says this year's Easter low road toll is proof road deaths can be reduced. Road to Zero director Bryan Sherrit spoke to Corin Dann.

This week, Geraldine takes a dive into the latest concerning road toll figures. US journalist Seymour Hersh has won prizes and international acclaim for his investigations in the past. But is his latest theory on America blowing up the all-important Nord Stream pipeline a step too far? And how the TV adaptation of "Fleishman's in Trouble" has left some Manhattan mums wondering if they're in strife, too. Thanks for listening! Join the conversation at the Facebook page "LDC Podcast" or email ldcpodcast1@gmail.com How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline - Seymour Hersh https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream ‘The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' The London Review of Books, Seymour Hersh https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Osama Bin Laden Situation Room photo https://time.com/84553/osama-bin-laden-situation-room/ ‘We profiled the “Signs of Crisis” in 50 years of mass shootings. This is what we found' New York Times, Jillian Peterson & James Densley https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/26/opinion/us-mass-shootings-despair.html Financial stress worse than COVID-19, says Beyond Blue CEO, Australian Financial Review https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/financial-stress-worse-than-covid-19-says-beyond-blue-ceo-20230209-p5cjbz Simone Young conducts Mahler's First Symphony https://www.sydneysymphony.com/concerts/simone-young-conducts-mahlers-first-symphony ‘The Fleishman Effect' The Cut, Caitlin Moscatello https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/the-fleishman-is-in-trouble-effect.html

As Aotearoa's emergency departments fight to keep up with demand, an expert is warning that an increase in tourism could add to the strain this summer. There had already been almost 360 deaths on our roads this year, and as people looked to set off on their holidays, there was a risk of more serious crashes occuring. I spoke to Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Trauma Subcommittee Dr Li Hsee, and began by asking about his concern for public health.

Giving virtual reality objects the feeling of mass.  Legislation to use technology in cars to save lives.  Pizza Robots cranking out a Pizza every 12 seconds.  Blood tests to detect cancer.  Google AI detecting smells based on molecular structure.  A name for a mission to Uranus. What could possibly go wrong?  The rise of the AI artists stirs up debate and threatens livelihoods.  Volkswagen looking for the Xtreme off-roaders with their latest electric concept car.  Google's failed Loon project is being revived by Aalyria and they are using lasers!