How can you best protect yourself from scammers, hackers and cyber attackers?

Have you ever received a text message or email claiming to be from a bank, government agency, or other organisation asking for your personal information?

Digital threats, including scams, phishing, and malware, pose serious risks to our security and identity.

Join us to uncover the tricks and strategies cyber attackers use to steal sensitive information as we explain proven defence measures to keep you safe.

In this engaging session, Dr Sebastian Zander, senior lecturer at Murdoch University, will share best practices in personal cybersecurity. covering topics like password management, multi-factor authentication, software updates, and more.

Dr Sebastian Zander has previously worked as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and as a Scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Germany. He received his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology in 2010. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Sebastian’s research areas include cybersecurity and networking, with a focus on IoT security, covert channels, network traffic classification, congestion control, and IPv6. Sebastian co-authored the Wiley book “Information Hiding in Communication Networks”, over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and two IETF RFCs.