Fraudsters have launched an online scam designed to steal bank account information from unwitting Internet users, after promising them US$200 in a fake email.
New laws targeting criminals who skim credit and debit cards will be introduced in Queensland to target the growing problem of identity theft.
Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.
The Victorian and Australian Federal Police forces last week raided a suspected internet fraudster based in Melbourne, the ABC's Four Corners revealed last night.
A Perth man has reportedly been jailed for six years for his role in a Nigerian-style scam campaign that netted $132,400 from four Australian victims.
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The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks.
We need to get the facts straight about identity theft and the Internet and stop scaring consumers away from the antidote to a US$47 billion national problem in the U.S.
W3C has proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organisation's push to standardise technologies crucial to Web services.
Security weaknesses in Microsoft's server and browser software are taking their toll on Australian Internet banking sites.
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