Leonard Bernadone

Leonard Bernardone is an award-winning techie and writer based in Melbourne. After six years working across multiple startup businesses, Leonard now works as a freelance journalist. His work strives to spread awareness, cyber safety, and technical innovation.

AI voice
AI/Machine Learning

What happens when AI voice generation goes rogue – the dangers of ‘voiceprints’ for ID

- April 21, 2023 4 MIN READ

Rampant misuse of AI voice generation is stirring fear and speculation across multiple industries, as the rapidly developing technology spurs increasing cases of imitation, political deepfakes and security disruption. Five years on from the now-infamous PSA clip showing a deepfake of US president Barack Obama forewarning the dangers of misinformation due to burgeoning artificial intelligence… Read more »

MediBank
Cyber security

‘DISTRESSING DEVELOPMENT’: The Medibank data breach is much worse than first thought

- October 25, 2022 3 MIN READ

Medibank has reported a “distressing development” regarding its unfolding cyber incident, as “a series of additional files” received from a criminal party have been found to include detailed Medibank customer data. The health insurance provider first reported “unusual activity” on its network on 13 October – and it was initially believed no customer data had been removed… Read more »