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Why are phishers targeting gamers? 'Cause that's where the money is ...

There's a story that when the notorious bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied "Because that's where the money is" (see Sutton's Law). As a strategy for maximizing...

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UPDATED: Phishing website impersonates auspost.com.au

Australia Post is warning customers to steer clear of a phishing website that has been designed to look like its homepage.

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Don't laugh: Jimmy Kimmel Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity of 2014

Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel doesn't fit the profile of McAfee's usual Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity, most often in recent years a female celebrity whose online images can frequently lure...

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4G email scam targets Telstra customers

Telstra has warned customers to delete a phishing email that claims they need to update their billing information following the introduction of 4G services on the 700MHz spectrum.

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PayPal scam email targets WA drivers

Western Australia Consumer Protection is warning drivers in the state to delete a scam email which claims they can renew their driver's licence via PayPal.

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Phishing SMS targets ANZ Bank customers

ANZ Banking Group is urging customers to delete an SMS message that claims unusual activity has been detected on their bank account.

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Report: Hacker group FIN4 stealing insider info to exploit significant...

For more than a year attackers dubbed FIN4 have been stealing insider information that could affect stock prices by hacking email accounts of key corporate executives and others privy to sensitive...

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In Pictures: The worst of the worst phishing scams

The depths a phishing scammer will stoop to in order to gain a buck are remarkable. Here are some of the bottom feeders to guard against in your inbox.

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In Pictures: RSA Conference 2015 - Criminals targeting gaps in user awareness...

Common Phishing techniques were less effective last year, so criminals changed their game in order to adapt

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Cost of 'hacking' scams doubled in 2014

A new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission includes figures showing that in 2014 reported financial losses from scams involving hacking more than doubled.

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What a decade of data breach investigations can teach us

​For the last decade, Verizon has published its annual Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Westpac woes continue with second outage

Just a day after resolving a major outage to its online and mobile banking services, Westpac Bank has suffered from another systems failure, this time affecting EFTPOS, ATMs and card transactions.

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Who still falls for social media spam scams?

Researchers at Facebook have undertaken what they describe as one of the largest scale studies of spam clicking behaviour, to reveal what kinds of people still fall for social media spam scams and why.

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Swinburne Uni rolls out cloud-based protection against email threats

Swinburne University of Technology gets some 5.5 million emails a month for students and staff and, says, chief information security officer, Steven Cvetkovic, almost 70 per cent of these are spam,...

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Phishing a key source of Australian data breaches, report confirms

User credentials compromised through phishing attacks was a key source of data breaches in the three months to September 30, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

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