Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $US50,000 ($A54,095) by a Nigerian man who said he was her Mr Right.
Cheaply available voice over Internet numbers and Net calling are helping crooks launch new data-thieving scams, a security company has warned.
Another e-mail scam is targeting Australian Internet banking customers with both ANZ and Westpac clients being targeted.
In what has become a weekly event, Australian consumers have been targeted by another e-mail scam -- the latest targets National Australia Bank (NAB) customers.
Australia's securities and investment watchdogs are turning to document classification technology employing the latest linguistic techniques in their hunt for Web-based fraudsters, they revealed today.
It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
This week I learned about a "trick" that you can do in Windows which, as far as I am concerned, is a serious security risk.
In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
The Australian Capital Territory police is warning Internet users to be wary of a new e-mail scam that deceptively alerts the recipient that their identity has been stolen.
Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.
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?
Do you think banks and financial institutions in Australia are doing enough to protect consumers from "phishing expeditions"?
Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.
Beware! Scammers have found a new way to dupe consumers, this time using mobile calls.
Commentary: How do you know when a technology has come of age? When people stop complaining about all those 'upper-class tech-heads' using it and start complaining about how the technology is being used to rip them off.
While Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users -- and that's ultimately good for the Internet.
If you haven't looked at Netscape in a while, version 8 is worth it for its added security and extra features.
I've come to the conclusion that all of the world's spam problems can be blamed on one tricolour feline. Well, that's not strictly true, but spam would be much easier to deal with if it was.
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