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    Online credit card scams cost Visa USA at least US$48 million last year. Read on to discover the real story behind the biggest threat to e-commerce and how you can protect your business and yourself.

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    The number of Internet users claiming to have fallen victim to premium-rate phone charge fraud has risen sharply, according to industry regulator ICSTIS.

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    Should Australians be worried that NZ bank customers are being used as "lab rats" to see if users could be made liable if they fall victim to online fraud?

  • 130 arrested in Net fraud crackdown

    More than 130 people have been arrested as part of the latest effort by law-enforcement agencies to crack down on Internet fraud, according to the Justice Department.

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    Cheaply available voice over Internet numbers and Net calling are helping crooks launch new data-thieving scams, a security company has warned.

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    If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

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  • Net fraud and the truth

    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.

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    Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks.

  • New Trojan menaces Aust online bank users

    Security weaknesses in Microsoft's server and browser software are taking their toll on Australian Internet banking sites.

  • E-mail best practices to share with your users

    E-mail is practically universal, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to use it correctly. These usage guidelines, which encompass things like virus, spam, and phishing protection, rules of etiquette, and attachment handling, will help safeguard your organisation and teach your users how to handle their e-mail responsibly.

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    Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.

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