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FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
The US has teamed up with Egypt in one of the largest crackdowns on cyber fraud - resulting in 100 people linked to an international "phishing" operation charged for trying to defraud American banks. According to a press statement from the Federal Bureau ...

Spam levels threaten inbox safety

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Financial planners should have a good look at whether their internet security is up to date after a technology firm found the amount of spam on the internet rose by 192 per cent in a year. Security firm, Symantec, found the amount of spam on the internet ...

AVG targets hacker behaviour

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... constantly change and websites are constantly upgraded. "In the US they have this annual competition to see how fast they can hack a machine. Last year it took two minutes to hack a Mac, this year it took ten seconds," Bridwell said. "What the hacker ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... Australia director David Dzienciol said a bigger threat is that cybercriminals are also selling the 'infrastructure' needed to hack into company and individual websites. "It's not only personal information that's being sold for millions of dollars, so ...

Secure Computing beats hackers at own game

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Secure Computing is helping financial services firms from inadvertently downloading malicious software without limiting the sites they can access by thinking like a hacker. The Australian Tax Office, the Royal Mint and a range of local banks are known ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Imagine logging in to your bank account online, making a transaction, then finding out that you've just given your details - and funds - to a nameless hacker. Now imagine the Trojan targeting the users of 400 banks worldwide, including several institutions ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
Financial institutions need to understand that the use of USB memory sticks could lead to information leakage and increases the risk of employees inadvertently downloading malware onto their systems, according Larry Bridwell, vice president global security ...

High tech maladies

Social networking websites are the new hotbed for cyber criminals eager to access and sell other people's personal and finance details, according to a new IT report. According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec, cyber criminals ...

Don't forget to lock and back-up: Symantec

Security software solutions Symantec has urged companies to ensure their IT systems are secure and backed-up over the Christmas break because the holiday season is also the peak time when they are most vulnerable to financial fraud. With many people ...