Asian victims lose $40m to scammers spoofing Chinese embassy phone numbers
FBI warns consumers over the Chinese embassy scam.
FBI warns consumers over the Chinese embassy scam.
Australians are becoming more concerned about their privacy and businesses are signing on for privacy-awareness activities as a result, the government’s information commissioner has noted as figures suggest 40 percent of Australians are uncomfortable with the government using their personal details for research or policy-making purposes.
David Braue | 20 Oct | Read more
Police in several European countries arrested 49 suspected members of a gang they say broke into corporate email accounts, using them to divert payments from business customers.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jun | Read more
According to the Verizon data breach investigations report released today, the average cost per breached data record is $US0.58 cents.
Maria Korolov | 15 Apr | Read more
After a drop in 2013, fraud rose 25 percent in 2014 with identity theft still the biggest menace
John E Dunn | 26 Mar | Read more
A new tool allows hackers to generate URLs that can hijack accounts on sites that use Facebook Login, potentially enabling powerful phishing attacks.
Lucian Constantin | 11 Mar | Read more
Criminals setting up fake domains for phishing are prone to use the same words over and over and spotting those words can help identify malicious sites, according to a new threat detection model from OpenDNS.
Maria Korolov | 07 Mar | Read more
Firms lack tools to detect bogus accounts
John E Dunn | 04 Mar | Read more
Google has released a security scanner to help its cloud customers guard against attacks on their Web applications.
Joab Jackson | 20 Feb | Read more
We're conditioned almost constantly to protect our passwords. Don't write them down. Don't store them in a Word doc on your desktop. Don't share your password over the phone or by email. Don't ever give your password to anyone under any circumstances. The gray area comes with whether to share your password with significant others.
Tony Bradley | 18 Feb | Read more
It's tax season! You might not want to put off filing your taxes this year. If you're not quick, you might find that someone else has already filed a fraudulent tax return in your name.
Tony Bradley | 14 Feb | Read more
Earlier Friday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in the UK ruled that the UK's Government Communications Headquarters' (GCHQ) access to information intercepted online by the US National Security Agency (NSA) was unlawful up until December 2014. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was established in October 2000 under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ('RIPA') to enable UK citizens to reveal cases where they believed their human rights have been violated by illegal UK government surveillance. On foot of allegations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that GCHQ had agreements in place with the NSA which enabled GCHQ to have access to the data gathered and held by the NSA on UK citizens, a number of civil liberties groups such as Privacy International and Liberty brought a case to the IPT.
Brian Honan | 07 Feb | Read more
Apple products are some of the most expensive and desirable in tech so it makes sense that the company's gift cards are proving an attractive currency for criminals.
Martyn Williams | 06 Feb | Read more
Gamers looking for voice chat software should be careful what they click on. Security firm Malwarebytes recently came across a new bit of malware that is pretending to be the installer for Razer Comms, the voice chat system from Razer.
Frequent fliers get all the perks - and all the attention from cyber criminals, apparently. United Airlines, American Airlines, and Park-n-Fly have all reported breaches in the past few days, pointing to an emerging trend of attacks targeted specifically at travelers.
Tony Bradley | 20 Jan | Read more