Fewer than half of all home computer users protect their systems from viruses, cyber-crime and other hacking, Australian Federal Police e-crime chief Neil Gaughan told federal parliament this week in a wide-ranging testimony.
Mobile devices are going to become the next big target for cyber criminals who will be helped by the greater availability of tools to develop software for them.
Four British men -- including a man believed to be a lord -- have been accused of trying to steal around AU$475.47 million by hacking into a Japanese bank's computer system, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said over the weekend.
eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China.
NATO's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack.
The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?
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.
Fraud, data theft, e-crime. These may not be the first terms that come to mind when thinking of business intelligence software but, sophisticated analysis of data can indeed help companies beat nefarious activity.
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?
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