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  • Online banking theft -- who pays?

    Don't expect Internet scams, hackers, trojan horses and the like to vanish overnight. The challenge is for banks and customers to minimise their exposure to losses. But how?

  • Australia's most gullible: Top victims of cybercrime?

    Australians experience one of the highest levels of cybercrime in the world, according to a new survey but are Aussies really such easy targets?

  • NAB and Mac Uni tag team to fight cybercrime

    The National Australia Bank is teaming up with Macquarie University to develop methods to pre-empt cyberattacks on financial institutions.

  • AFP unites last tech units in fight against cybercrime

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday finalised the restructuring of its high tech crimes division, with the announcement that the force's final two independent technical units have been amalgamated with High Tech Crimes Operations.

  • Phishers go round the world to hook Aussie victims

    Researchers from security firm Sophos have traced the route of a phishing attack that targeted Australian banking customers -- the fraudsters used numerous compromised servers in Korea, the United States and Malaysia. And unlike traditional viruses, malware and phishing attacks are coming armed with the capability to adjust to the level of a user's defence.

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  • Online banking theft -- who pays?

    Don't expect Internet scams, hackers, trojan horses and the like to vanish overnight. The challenge is for banks and customers to minimise their exposure to losses. But how?

  • Finding a replacement for passwords

    Verification gadgets range from tokens to mobile-phone-based systems, but cost keeps them from catching on.

  • The new face of cybercrime

    Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.

  • Bigger phishes ready to spawn

    special report Phishing attacks may have slowed, but their sophistication is increasing at a rapid pace.

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