Big online applications are always targets for scammers – and Government apps, like the widely-used myGov, are no exception. Warrnambool businesses in particular have recently been targeted with a series of scam emails, reminding us of how important it is to be aware of what a phishing message looks like. Phishing emails are one of...
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It’s happened to all of us (all of us); 4:30 on a Friday arvo and you get an email from ASIC, Xero, the ATO, Drop Box, or one of the hundreds of other Cloud services we all collectively use every day. Maybe you think “this looks different to normal”? “Why’s Kelly sending me a file...
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Sadly, we learned in the last few days of how a number of south west organisations have recently been hit by scammers/fraudsters/criminals/opportunists, resulting in significant monies being paid across erroneously to their bank accounts. This revelation is a bleak reminder of how important it is that financial processes and controls are considered as valuable commodities...
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This month a Belgian Cyber security research group has published details of a previously unknown vulnerability in the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2) protocol used to encrypt and secure data transfers in most Wi-Fi networks around the world. This vulnerability effectively allows an attacker, who is running the right software and physically within range of their...
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