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Fake Telstra "Duplicate Payment" Refund Scam Targets Australians

A new phishing campaign is impersonating Telstra, using a fabricated duplicate invoice payment to lure recipients into a fake ...

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Emmanuel Marshall 8 March 2018, 4 min read

Super-scammer who stole millions arrested in Europol case

A Ukrainian man, Gennadiy Kapkanov, is currently being held by Ukraine police, accused of ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 7 March 2018, 9 min read

The NDB Scheme: Australia's new cybersecurity rules

In today’s global online marketplace, businesses can find customers, manage workforces ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 1 March 2018, 6 min read

CEO fraud attacks up 2,370% since 2015

Friday afternoon at a typical office in Sydney, Australia. Most of the staff have left to ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 22 February 2018, 2 min read

Retina-X hacked - this is why data-security matters

The trending data breach story this week is about Retina-X Studios and the embarrassing ...
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Craig McDonald 7 February 2018, 7 min read

‘Cybercrime to cost $8 trillion’: WEF Global Risks Report

If you’re looking for some uplifting reading, I would not recommend The Global Risks ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 1 February 2018, 6 min read

Strava’s map & the security lessons it teaches us

On the scale of potential cyber-threats, who expected a fitness tracking app to create an ...
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Craig McDonald 22 January 2018, 9 min read

Business Priorities 2018: What are CEOs Thinking About?

These are interesting times to be in business. The fastest pace of industrial development ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 9 January 2018, 4 min read

Better Cybersecurity - Govt. Guide for Businesspeople

43% of cybercrime targets smaller businesses; that’s the warning issued in a newly ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 5 January 2018, 3 min read

‘Meltdown’ & ‘Spectre’ Bugs: PCs & Macs Vulnerable to Data Theft

Newly discovered security bugs in computer processors have been revealed that make almost ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 3 January 2018, 4 min read

Mass Market Cybercrime - the Threat of MaaS

Cybercriminals are starting to behave like corporations and it’s not that surprising, ...
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Craig McDonald 2 January 2018, 8 min read

Cybersecurity: a Multi-Layered Strategy is Required

One of the biggest challenges we face dealing with cybersecurity is the way it’s ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 29 December 2017, 6 min read

Cybercrime 2017: This Year's Big Stories

History may well remember the 20-teens as the decade of cybercrime. This year has seen an ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 22 December 2017, 8 min read

2018: Can we Avoid a Cybercrime Storm?

Equifax, WannaCry, Russian hacking; there were weeks when 2017 was like a cybersecurity ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 15 December 2017, 6 min read

Aust Post, Energy Aust and CityLink Scams - Weekly Digest

This has been a big week for email scams. We've detected and stopped malicious emails ...
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Emmanuel Marshall 14 December 2017, 1 min read

Police Action Threatened in CityLink Scam Emails

This morning MailGuard detected a new criminal-intent email with fake ‘CityLink’ ...
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