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Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... including super funds and wealth managers, vulnerable to cyber criminals unless they upgrade their security, a fraud and cyber-crime expert has warned. Similar to the UK's Faster Payments initiative and Same Day ACH in the US, the New Payments Platform ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey will allocate millions to a taskforce that will fight "serious and organised financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases ...

Labor backs ASIC data retention authority

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... to have access to telecommunications data to assist those agencies in the investigation and prosecution of white-collar crime." He added: "These amendments are critically important to making this bill what it should be-a bill that will help our law enforcement ...

Nationals pressure Treasury for RC into white collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Nationals' Senator John Williams has given Treasury the suggested terms of reference for a Royal Commission into white collar crime. Williams confirmed to Financial Standard that he gave the documents to Treasurer Joe Hockey's chief of staff two weeks ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane..." "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." (The New York Sun, 21 Sep 1897). It's hard to believe too given the depressing headlines about oil's slide (and more to follow) ...

Government Cyber Security Strategy already out of date

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... called for government and other financial system stakeholders to tighten processes to counter the growing threat of cyber-crime. Recommendation 38 in the final report of the FSI said the government's 2009 Cyber Security Strategy should be updated to ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... businesses' vulnerability to the risk, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said. "Cyber-crime around the world is growing and will continue to grow," Medcraft said, and noted that highly interconnected market ...

Share trader jailed over $260,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... disregard to the law and now must deal with the consequences of his behaviour." "ASIC does not tolerate any form of white collar crime and when offenders are caught, they will be punished appropriately."

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Adviser jailed for blowing client funds on fast cars

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
An adviser who defrauded investors out of $1 million to rent sports cars and buy a house has been jailed for more than five years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Carlo Cini, a former director ...