items tagged with Identity Theft
Security concerns on the rise, Aussie support for better protection with biometrics
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-20 22:54:30
Concerns about Internet security in Australia are growing rapidly, to the point that the majority of Australians now say they are happy for a wider deployment of biometric technology and to use their fingerprint to prove their identity.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-20 22:54:30
Concerns about Internet security in Australia are growing rapidly, to the point that the majority of Australians now say they are happy for a wider deployment of biometric technology and to use their fingerprint to prove their identity.
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Identity theft, crime rife in Australia
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-01 02:06:19
Credit card theft, unauthorised bank account access and identity theft are rife in Australia with more than one in five Australians aged 16-years or over now reporting that someone has stolen their identity, illegally accessed, or tried to access their bank accounts, stolen or skimmed their credit cards or tried to steal their bank account pin.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-01 02:06:19
Credit card theft, unauthorised bank account access and identity theft are rife in Australia with more than one in five Australians aged 16-years or over now reporting that someone has stolen their identity, illegally accessed, or tried to access their bank accounts, stolen or skimmed their credit cards or tried to steal their bank account pin.
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Dubious Australian honour as top 10 phishing attack host
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Online crims go phishing for Australian tax refunds
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-08-24 04:50:59
Cyber criminals have been tricking Australian taxpayers into revealing highly sensitive, personal information – essentially stealing their identities – to get hold of their tax refunds in a new phishing scam targeting the Australian Tax Office.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-08-24 04:50:59
Cyber criminals have been tricking Australian taxpayers into revealing highly sensitive, personal information – essentially stealing their identities – to get hold of their tax refunds in a new phishing scam targeting the Australian Tax Office.
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NAB pioneers ‘five minute’ online bank account
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 01:56:27
The battlelines for online banking have been redrawn with the launch of an online bank account by UBank which it claims lets most Australian adults set up an online account in five minutes and access an interest rate of 5.11%.
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Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 01:56:27
The battlelines for online banking have been redrawn with the launch of an online bank account by UBank which it claims lets most Australian adults set up an online account in five minutes and access an interest rate of 5.11%.
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Financial services group deploy Salmat biometric voice solution
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-09 06:39:00
Salmat is claiming a first for the Australian life insurance and wealth management industry with deployment of its VeSecure voice biometric capability by the Australian arm of global financial services group, Aviva.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-09 06:39:00
Salmat is claiming a first for the Australian life insurance and wealth management industry with deployment of its VeSecure voice biometric capability by the Australian arm of global financial services group, Aviva.
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Four-fold increase in credit card fraud
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-24 03:06:16
Credit card fraud in Australia has been growing four times faster than the number of card transaction Aussies make and there’s been a warning to businesses to strengthen their defences against the fraudsters.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-24 03:06:16
Credit card fraud in Australia has been growing four times faster than the number of card transaction Aussies make and there’s been a warning to businesses to strengthen their defences against the fraudsters.
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Security breaches growing problem for Aussie, NZ SMBs
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-12 00:10:40
With the spread of malicious code activity growing at a record pace globally last year, Australian and New Zealand small to medium sized business copped their share of problems, with many of them reporting security breaches and loss of data.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-12 00:10:40
With the spread of malicious code activity growing at a record pace globally last year, Australian and New Zealand small to medium sized business copped their share of problems, with many of them reporting security breaches and loss of data.
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Concerns about cyber fraud loom during economic crisis
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-19 03:11:27
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-19 03:11:27
There’s real concern amongst Australian consumers who do their shopping, make payments and undertake banking transactions online that the current economic crisis has increased the risk of their identity being stolen or that they will be the target of cyber criminals.
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AVG bumps up security software
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2009-03-02 21:50:43
AVG has boosted the protection offered by its security products. The free version of its anti-virus suite now includes real-time protection against web-borne threats.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2009-03-02 21:50:43
AVG has boosted the protection offered by its security products. The free version of its anti-virus suite now includes real-time protection against web-borne threats.
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Time for an online banking security revolution
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-02-19 16:39:24
With 2008 showing just how big the “underground economy” has become, and with numerous examples of banking Trojans and malware reaching new heights of nefariousness, 2009 is a do-or-die year for the banking industry – especially in the midst of the global financial crisis.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-02-19 16:39:24
With 2008 showing just how big the “underground economy” has become, and with numerous examples of banking Trojans and malware reaching new heights of nefariousness, 2009 is a do-or-die year for the banking industry – especially in the midst of the global financial crisis.
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Habbo survey: Security conscious Aussie teens battle online threats
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 05:36:44
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 05:36:44
On line bullying and constant attempts to extract personal information for its misuse are part and parcel of life online for Australian teenagers, if the results of a survey of 2,800 teens are a fair representation of what goes on on the Internet.
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McAfee: Your own fear could lead to theft of your identity!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-04 08:27:50
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-04 08:27:50
McAfee's latest SPAM report warns of a scam which relies on someone’s fear of having their identity stolen and which the security company says is the latest malware campaign tactic employed by identity thieves.
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TrustDefender and the Trojan Vundo story
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-20 10:18:47
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-20 10:18:47
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.
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SmartErase drives reburn used optical media for security
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-11-11 22:51:25
How do you dispose of used writable CDs and DVDs? Bend them in half? Run them through the shredder? Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) thinks it's found a better way.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-11-11 22:51:25
How do you dispose of used writable CDs and DVDs? Bend them in half? Run them through the shredder? Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) thinks it's found a better way.
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Is the UK’s Ministry of Defence really the Ministry of Data Loss?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-10-13 00:55:15
Yet another UK “data loss” scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that “up to” 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this personal information.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-10-13 00:55:15
Yet another UK “data loss” scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that “up to” 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this personal information.
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