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From financial advisers to cybersecurity advocates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
Financial advisers must arm themselves with serious cybersecurity knowhow as more cybercrime networks turn their focus to financial services companies at an alarming rate. Finance professionals will be affected on three fronts: the value of companies ...

Adviser cybercrime insurance launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... global insurance and risk management provider are launching an insurance policy aiming to protect advisers against cybercrime. Financial advisers registered on the Adviser Ratings platform will be eligible to take out cyber liability insurance with Aon ...

BetaShares launches cybersecurity ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... number of internet-connected devices across the globe has had an unfortunate consequence in the equally strong growth of cybercrime," BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said. "Cybersecurity is front of mind for governments, businesses and individuals ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... investment structures that are complex, multi-layered, opaque and in foreign jurisdictions; increased use of technology and cybercrime; and the resilience of a syndicate to international law enforcement. The commission said phoenix fraud - when a company ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... on the rise, increasing from 25 per cent to 39 per cent. Asset and cash theft were the biggest offences, followed by cybercrime, procurement fraud, accounting fraud, and bribery and corruption. One in 10 organisations lost more than $1 million from cybercrime ...

ASIC chair defends against media 'smear'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... other policy makers," he said. He listed the five most important areas which the international body was working on: cybercrime, G20 derivative reforms, establishing a global taskforce to facilitate capital flows between countries, developing market-based ...

Fraud and cybercrime biggest non-investment risks to family offices

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... tangible assets, but reputation as well. Travel and health risks, the threat of natural disaster, identity theft and cybercrime, fraud and simply allowing the family's good name to erode due to poor reputation management were highlighted in the study. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... after April 2012. PARIS - More than one in three companies say that in 2011 they were victims of fraud with reports of cybercrime targeting businesses around the world skyrocketing, a report said on Tuesday. LONDON - World oil prices have surged as traders ...

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... chief privacy officer and developed tools to help consumers and businesses avoid cyberattacks and take action against cybercrime. But the initiatives outlined in the report are just the first of many. Symantec aims to reduce their CO2 emissions by 15 ...

High tech maladies

... of Symantec Security Response and Managed Services said, "Hackers are taking this trend to the next level by making cybercrime their actual profession and they are employing business-like practices to successfully accomplish this goal." Worse, cyber ...