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Did you know that mostly you are not being ‘hacked’
Scammers are actually ‘phishing’ and we take the bait…..

If you would like to deepen your understanding of the world of cyber-safety,
here are some resources that may be of interest.

Incident Support

If you have been involved with a Cyber security incident, we recommend you seek our support in the first instance. You can also report the incident and seek support at the Australian Signals Directorate, An Australian Government Cyber Security Support Service.

https://www.cyber.gov.au/report-and-recover/where-get-help.

If you wish to see the Australian Government cyber security recommendations, you can visit their website here. https://www.cyber.gov.au/learn-basics

AI – Artificial Intelligence – Alternative thoughts?

AI Crash Report – By Julian Whatley. In this 3 part synopsis posted early 2026 on how AI is not sustainable, and the bubble is about to burst, Julian explains the timeline and reasons behind the problems of AI in its current form.
– Episode 1 – AI Crash Report: The Money Furnace
– Episode 2 – AI Crash Report: The Physics of the Collapse
– Episode 3 – AI Crash Report: What Triggers the Collapse

More episodes from Julian’s Channel can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/@Julian_Whatley

Why Tech CEOs Are Quietly Cancelling Their AI Plans – Tech CEOs spent the last two years promising AI would replace workers, cut costs, and transform everything. Now they’re quietly cancelling data centers, rehiring humans and admitting the math doesn’t work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtUgWn-nHs

Everyone Misread OpenAI’s Leaked Financials. The Real Number is Terrifying – This breakdown examines the conflicting narratives surrounding OpenAI financials. Whether you are an investor or an AI enthusiast, it is crucial to understand the difference between standard operational losses and actual insolvency risks. We analyze why many analysts are focusing on the wrong metrics when evaluating the sustainability of companies like OpenAI and xAI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yTzmo4rrQY

I Was Wrong About AI… The Real Threat To Australia Is Much Scarier – AI is no longer just a tech story. It is becoming the pressure point Australia is not ready for. And if we keep pretending it only lives on a screen, households could be the ones left paying for it. In this video, I break down why artificial intelligence is putting pressure on Australia’s electricity grid, regional land, data centres, infrastructure planning, food security and the broader economy. This is about what AI could mean for Australian households, property investors and anyone trying to understand where the country is heading next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T-fPguuoO0

Australia is about to get F*cked by Big Tech…. Here’s Why | Punters Politics

Every time the world’s biggest corporations look at Australia, we lose — our gas, our minerals, now our land and water for their AI data centres. The bloke meant to get us a good deal, Andrew Charlton, is a product of the revolving door: mates spinning between lobbying, consulting and government, swinging it wide open for Big Tech every time. Here’s how Charlton sells us out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWJ17P1dsqY

Why the AI Era Will End Sooner Than You Think – June 27, 2026 – Everyone keeps talking about the AI era like it’s just beginning. But I think the public AI boom may end much sooner than people expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFu7baviTQ

What Sam Altman Doesn’t Want You To Know – Sam Altman (Open AI) wants to make a deal with us: he’ll give us a utopian future, if we give him… everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg

Sam Altman is starting to panic – So, the CTO of Uber, who you know, picture a guy in his early 50s trying to look hip, terrified of getting left behind .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwjVjD3oQJg

Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI – Jimmy Carr explains why he believes everyone’s thinking about AI is wrong. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYOskvlq18

AI expert worries about the risk of humans losing control | Four Corners – Jeffrey Ladish consulted on security for AI giant Anthropic. In this interview examines how AI agents are sometimes doing the opposite of what humans are instructing them to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYORRh377Gw

Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Finally Falling Apart – In This video covers Palantir’s very public AI meltdown. Alex Karp’s chaotic CNBC appearance to Peter Thiel accusing the Pope of working for China, and why these moments are part of something much bigger: the AI industry’s growing backlash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCEYLwZtVg

New UNBELIEVABLY Powerful Microcomputers Will Make Data Centers OBSOLETE! with Hakeem Anwar
Jimmy interviews privacy and technology advocate Hakeem Anwar about the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super, a small AI computer capable of running advanced open-source language models locally at low cost and power consumption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpr7VqkVSE

Why Building AI Data Centres Isn’t Working Anymore – The AI data centre boom is starting to falter before it’s really began. 50% of AI data projects are being delayed or canceled. This is despite already causing damage to many communities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXXwN_TDdLU

Get The Truth AboutData Centres – Find data centers near you. Estimate your water & power risk. Connect with local activist groups. https://aidatacentermap.org/

Butlerian Jihad When? – The AI uprising has begun. But what kind of uprising will it be? Will it be a Butlerian Jihad? A neo-Luddite movement? Or something else entirely? Let’s find out…
**The first 25 minutes is a lot of preamble, but worth watching for context of the back end of the video
https://pnqk.me/xe300h

‘We have to learn to embrace the imperfect nature of human solutions…’ – what we lose when AI starts doing all our thinking at work. The hidden mental cost of letting AI do too much of our thinking.
https://www.techradar.com

Forget Zune. Forget Vista. Copilot Is Microsoft’s Biggest Failure – This is how Microsoft bought access to OpenAI, hired Mustafa Suleyman, jammed Copilot into everything, and watched rivals eat the lunch Satya thought he’d already won. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0jRB3nhK4

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign- In mid-September 2025, Anthropic (Claude AI) detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree, Using AI as a hacking tool and exfiltrating enormous amounts of sensitive data in a very short time. Click HERE to download the full report
Or read the summary here – https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

Meta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to hackers – Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they’re asking for without bothering a human. Meta’s new AI support assistant took that brief a little too seriously. – https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/06

AI could crack your password – Check your password now and update it if it not strong enough. Make sure you save your new strong password into a password manager

Check your password here – https://checkmypassword.com.au/

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built – AI agents don’t just answer questions – they act. They can browse the web, send emails, and spend your money. Anyone can build one. So they did – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw

Online Privacy

I Have Nothing to hide! – It’s become a default response from many to overreaching surveillance. When did privacy start being about having something to hide? It used to simply be about having the right to decide for ourselves who gets access to our data. But over the past decade we’ve lost that choice, and so much of our personal and sensitive information is shared without our knowledge or explicit consent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcqh0ZSza50

“Australia’s Digital ID Dilemma: Convenience vs. Privacy” – What do you think? Would you voluntarily use a Digital ID, or do you believe the risks outweigh the benefits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM1dIFKTd5M

They warned me that we’re next – by Naomi Brockwell – When you talk to people who have lived under dictatorship, you start to notice uncomfortable parallels to what’s happening in the West right now. The surveillance creep. The ID mandates. The slow erosion of the right to communicate, transact, and move through the world privately. This is an eye opening video –
https://www.youtube.com

Digital ID: lessons from history – Paul G. Conlon is a senior engineer with expertise in electronic engineering, information technology, and digital identity systems, as well as the author of ‘Citizen One: The Case Against Digital Identity‘. In his book ‘Citizen One’, Paul makes a case against centralised digital IDs by using his technical understanding and family history of living in 1930s-40s Germany to highlight how such systems enable state control over the lives of citizens. – Watch this interview with Paul to hear more – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQQWx4JlTw

How To Opt Out of the Digital Prison – In this conversation, we discuss global standards enabling biometric interoperability across borders, why “voluntary” always becomes mandatory, and Hakeem demonstrates the Above Phone on screen, making the case for why the window to migrate to open protocols is closing faster than most people realise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5JCT4xOwjM

Privacy Is Like Broccoli – If you are just starting the journey to improve your privacy online, you might feel overwhelmed by all the information you recently learned. This is normal, don’t panic! Here is a guide to assist with your privacy journey – https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/24/privacy-is-like-broccoli/

Privacy Activist Toolbox – This handy checklist from Privacy Guides is a handy guide to help with your journey to becoming more private and secure with your digital footprint. With everything from choosing the right tools to supporting your community and staying sovereign in your own integrity. There is plenty to think about, but remember, you only need to take one step at a time. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/#choose-your-tools

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Are Laced with Proxies – Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address. – https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

How does Google track me even when I’m not using it? Google can (and does) track your activity across many non-Google websites and apps. That may be surprising, even if you already know that when you use Google products like Google Search, Chrome, and YouTube, they collect a shocking amount of personal information about you. – https://spreadprivacy.com/how-does-google-track-me-even-when-im-not-using-it/

How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now – The ad identifier – aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android – is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling it will make it substantially harder for advertisers and data brokers to track and profile you, and will limit the amount of your personal information up for sale. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now

Payment apps are watching what you say – In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of crimes, like funding terrorism, engaging in money laundering, or violating sanctions. Is this going to happen in Australia too? – https://lock-and-code.captivate.fm/

If you want to understand your digital footprint better and what ‘tracks’ you are leaving behind, take a look here – https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/digital-footprints/

Wikipedia has a page noting Privacy concerns with Facebook – This quite a long article to read, however even a quick skim will give you some context around your consideration to participate with any Meta platforms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_with_Facebook

Online Safety

Social engineering is a manipulation technique that exploits human error to gain private information, access, or valuables. In cybercrime, these “human hacking” scams tend to lure unsuspecting users into exposing data, spreading malware infections, or giving access to restricted systems.
Attacks can happen online, in-person, and via other interactions – want to know more?
https://slnt.com/blogs/insights/social-engineering-tips-to-make-yourself-safe-from-this-hacking-tactic

Email can be intercepted and read by people you may not want to see what you have sent – This is known as an MITM (man in the middle attack). Read our handy link here on what this means to you and how you can avoid it – https://docs.almostunhackable.me/man-in-the-middle/

“Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow – Your Google results have become so bad that you’ve likely typed what you’re looking for, plus the word “Reddit,” so you can find discussions from actual humans. Your Facebook feed could be entirely irrelevant because the company decided years ago that you didn’t want to see what your friends posted. But, according to digital rights activist and award-winning author Cory Doctorow, this wave of online deterioration isn’t an accident—it’s a business strategy, and it can be summed up in a word he coined a couple of years ago: Enshittification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7N4QocfMpg

In December 2025, Age verification Laws for Search Engines come into affect – If you are concerned with what that means for you, click here for more information on what will be happening and how it may effect you – https://docs.almostunhackable.me/australian-age-verification-law

or download the PDF here

Cyber Safety Project – Parent Tool Kit for Social Media Delay – This resource was developed by the Cyber Safety Project to support families in navigating the new under‑16 social media legislation from December 10th 2025 in Australia – Download Here

Age restrictions alone won’t keep children safe online – A statement by UNICEF as countries move to introduce social media bans for children – NEW YORK, 9 December 2025
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/age-restrictions-alone-wont-keep-children-safe-online

Lock your Credit File – When a ban is put in place it ‘freezes’ access to your credit file. This means that the Credit Reporting Agencies (CRAs) are not able to disclose any personal information from your consumer credit file to any credit providers unless you provide written consent for them to do so, or if they are required by law. By extension, this stop credit fraud in your name in its tracks. – https://www.idcare.org/learning-centre/fact-sheets/credit-bans-australia

If you are using FREE antivirus, YOU are the product – Be aware AVAST Antivirus has been fined $16.5 Million Dollars for selling customer data collected through their Antivirus platform and Web Browser plug-in. This highlights the need to be very clear on what you sign up to online and how that service is going to make money

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

For a resource that focuses extensively on Cyber Wellbeing – Its Time to Log Off – https://www.itstimetologoff.com/ – This website is full of great resources on how to recreate your digital life with more balance.

Privacy for Cars

It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy – Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels” for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants’ privacy hasn’t really caught up
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/https://pnqk.me/mqagvy

Is Your Tesla Spying on You? The Truth About the Interior Camera – Have you ever glanced up at the rearview mirror and noticed the small, lens-like aperture looking back at you? That’s the Tesla interior camera, and its constant, unblinking presence has become a central point of discussion for privacy-conscious owners everywhere.
https://temai.tech/blogs/temai-blogs/the-truth-about-the-tesla-interior-camerahttps://temai.tech/blogs/temai-blogs/the-truth-about-the-tesla-interior-camera

Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – If your car connects to the internet, what personal data could it be sharing – and even selling?
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom

Navigating the privacy risks of electric vehicles – The increasing popularity of electric vehicles, and connected vehicles more broadly, raises concerns over the computer systems used in the vehicles in terms of what data these systems are recording, storing and potentially sharing and, of course, who has access to that data.
https://lsj.com.au/articles/navigating-the-privacy-risks-of-electric-vehicles/

Honoring Auto Privacy Rights – Modern cars are chock full of sensors, many of which are used to monitor the passengers and collect personal data. But cars are subject to privacy laws, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeDGI7xI7qM

Platform Options & Alternatives

How to Leave Big Tech | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Browsers, Cloud, Social Media & More!) – Are you concerned about privacy, data harvesting, or the ethical implications of using Big Tech services? In this beginner’s guide, I explain how and why to transition away from major tech companies, covering search engines, browsers, cloud storage, and social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Qtq-v_W6Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Qtq-v_W6Y

Dont Trust American Cloud Storage, Try These 9 Instead – Here’s what almost nobody tells you about cloud storage: if your provider is an American company, it doesn’t matter which country the servers physically sit in. In this video I walk through which clouds are safe from the long arm of the US government and which aren’t, across 9 non-American providers in 7 countries — plus the Swiss surveillance nuance, the Five Eyes problem, and what client-side encryption actually buys you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjlnjTTLqJY

Proton Mail Search function, turn THIS on now – Proton Mail is just one of the privacy-focused email providers out there, and they offer significantly better privacy than mainstream providers. These settings will help you make the most of your transition to better email.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXTreZ-pH0

How Does Quad9 Combine Privacy, Security, and Free – Explore the mission of Quad9, a nonprofit DNS service dedicated to enhancing online security and privacy for businesses and individuals. This video covers how Quad9 blocks malicious domains, their global growth, legal battles to protect an open internet, and the future of DNS encryption. Learn why Quad9 is a top choice for secure and private internet browsing. Service?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDi0YvS2hFA

Alternative search engines for Google – The Google Search engine tracks everything you do online, AND you don’t have to use it. Here is how you can use an alternative search engine https://beconnected.esafety.gov.au/topic-library/articles-and-tips/alternative-search-engines-to-google

Brave Adds Containers to Separate Your Browsing – Brave has released a new containers feature to allow you to isolate your browsing between different identities
https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/07/03/brave-adds-containers-to-separate-your-browsing/

Secure Messenger Comparison – Not all messenger platforms are equal for security and privacy.
Here is a handy comparison table to assist you with the best choice of messaging services (Top tip – it is Signal, Threema or Session) – https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Offline Club Brings Young Adults Back to Real Life – This Dutch social movement holds local events where phones aren’t allowed, and creates containers in cafes for offline based interaction. https://takebackourtech.org/offline-club-back-to-real-life/

Looking for an alternative to Apple or Windows Computing? Consider a Linux based PC or a Secure Phone from PrivSecure. Platforms secure by nature, protecting your privacy with technology. Buy directly from PrivSecure and receive expert support from the team at PrivSecure – More info here

An EFTPOS Services that is good for the planet – GreenPay gives 50% of profits to help protect and restore the environment. With GreenPay, you can take payments online, in-store or omni-channel, plus enable subscriptions and more. Underpinned by leading security compliance, cutting-edge fraud protection and real-time reporting. All designed to integrate easily into your business, GreenPay is the only payment solution you’ll ever need.
Click here for more information – https://www.greenpay.au/

Other Channels to Follow

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons – An excellent resource for extensive instructions for cyber security. (for those geeks out there who want to go deep!) There is also a great Podcast and a Book to buy if you want a practical guide to follow. Click here to visit the Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Website.

All Things Secured – Josh Summers covers a variety of security topics and offers easy to follow tips and thoughts. Josh has a Youtube Channel and if you subscribe to his email you get a handy tip every week. Check out the website here

NBTV.media – Hosted by Naomi Brockwell has many great resourses on her site, including videos, how to’s, and her book. An easy to follow format for those that want to understand more about their online security and privacy. Visit her site Here

Here are some great video and Audio resources
that you can watch to skill up on your Cyber Safety.

Firewalls Dont Stop Dragons – Cary Parker

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Website

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Podcasts

Understanding AI Chatbots

Indicators of Account Compromise

Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data – Carissa Véliz

On the Ethics of AI – Carissa Véliz

Naomi Brockwell – NBTV

The Creepy Cameras On Every Corner – The Surveillance Grid Tracking Everyone

Privacy 101 – 6 Easy steps to up your privacy

“I Have Nothing to Hide” – The Dangerous Myth About Privacy