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Cyber bank fraud is on the rise. Here are some important ways to protect yourself.
The Five Eyes alliance is critical to hunting and detecting foreign cyber actors, but tends to work in secret.
The Snake network has been detected in more than 50 countries, including Australia.
Many children and adolescents fall victim to online exploitation, but there are some steps parents can take to protect their children online.
A new proposal aims to prevent SMS scams by introducing a national SMS sender ID registry.
How to know if your computers are infected for use in a distributed denial of service attack.
Beyond neutralising the cybercriminals behind the Medibank breach, the taskforce will also seek out and attack other potential threats.
Banning cyber ransom payments might help ward off attacks, but there are some cases where organisations feel intense pressure to pay up.
In a viscous cycle, it’s also becoming harder to get cyberinsurance.
It’s reported the stolen data of more than one million Australians have already been leaked – and more is expected.
A well-known cybercrime group has threatened to release the data should the ransom not be paid.
Cyber crime is arguably the top risk now facing any business. But things need to change if cyber-insurance is to be viable for most.
Credit checks and international co-operation are crucial when it comes to tracking down cybercriminals.
The cybercrime ecosystem is vast and complex – and increasingly littered with specialists who will cheaply sell your data.
Optus used press releases, and Twitter when it could have contacted its customers by text.
As businesses establish themselves in the metaverse, the amount of financial transactions there will increase. This will come with previously unknown risks.
Poor cybersecurity awareness and training of users is one reason for the high incidence of successful cyber-attacks in South Africa.
Twitter users’ responses suggest that southern Yahoo boys are more criminalised by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission than their northern counterparts. We explain why.
To combat the rise in deepfakes used in fraud, employees and investigators need to be aware of the threats involved.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Cyber Security, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer of Computing and Security, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Director, Centre for Internet Safety, University of Canberra
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in Computer Security, University of Kent
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Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Lawyer, Curtin University
