by admin | Sep 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
Hundreds of Australian people smugglers, fraudsters, drug kingpins and a former Macquarie banker jailed for dealing ecstasy are named on a leaked Chinese database. The leaked database has been met with concern and alarm in Australia and will now form part of a Senate...
by admin | Sep 15, 2020 | News & Analysis
Working with Services Australia and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Telstra has piloted a new malicious text message blocking service on its network that stops impersonation attempts from reaching Services Australia customers. It will identify and rejects...
by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | News & Analysis
Led by Monash University and RMIT, stage one of a project researching the extent of the use of technology to facilitate sexual abuse and violence against women will begin. Technology-facilitated abuse refers to the use of mobile, internet and surveillance technologies...
by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | News & Analysis
NAB has recorded literally millions of cyber-attacks, warning online criminals are amplifying their attack on customers. They said fraud attempts made to customer accounts had increased by more than 78 per cent between May to June, with estimated losses rising 33 per...
by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | News & Analysis
Between using the pandemic and bushfires earlier in 2020 to their advantage, scammers cost Australians $A77 million in the first six months of 2020. Business email compromise (BEC) scams took in more than $A132 million in 2019. Fraudsters appear to be well capable of...
by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | News & Analysis
Disgraced bank manager Andi Lee has been jailed for $4m worth of fraud. He stole money from customers using fake term deposit accounts between 2015 and 2019. Andi Lee owned 26 luxury watches, paid $280,000 for two Porsches and spent a stack of cash on his girlfriend....
