Bluepurple Pulse: week ending October 30th

Happy Halloween edition🎃

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week all eyes are on the new OpenSSL vulnerability that will drop on November 1st. How bad will it be? How quickly will it be exploited? Who will exploit it? Time to roll those 🎲 and lick the lid of life..

In the high-level this week:

• A Conversation with Chris Inglis and Anne Neuberger - Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director, and Anne Neuberger, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology

• Tougher penalties for serious data breaches - The Albanese Government will next week introduce legislation to significantly increase penalties for repeated or serious privacy breaches in Australia

• Treasury Sanctions Iranian Officials and Entities Responsible for Ongoing Crackdown on Protests and Internet Censorship - including The Ravin Academy is a school that trains individual…