The seductive lure of activity and health wearables make it easy to forget, or ignore, the inherent security and privacy risks involved The dark side of wearables: How they're secretly jeopardizing your security and privacy
Finally, we can all sleep well at night ...
Asio Crime Commission granted access to photographs of NSW citizens to aid terrorism fight
USB Killer 2.0: A harmless-looking USB stick that destroys computers Help Net Security: “Soft Malware has been around for a long time. Meet the new guy, Hard Malware.”
In related news, the average economic impact of cyber crime on Australian organisations increased from $4.2 million last year to $4.9 million this year, according to the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study. Stolen credit and debit card data can be purchased for as little as $21 in Australia, according to a new report. The McAfee Labs report, The Hidden Data Economy, found that the average price for stolen credit and debit cards online ranged from A$21 up to $40. Bank login details for an account containing a balance of $2,200 were on offer for $190. This 'Fullzinfo' includes the victim’s billing address, PIN number, social security number, date of birth, mother’s maiden name and username/password Darknet. Darknet knows the price for every stolen card but the value of civilisation is not on their radar ... If people do not but there would not be black market ...How much is your stolen data worth on the dark web
Earlier today, Uber released a new “Uber Partner app, designed to give drivers more information so Uber works better for them.” It also inadvertently gave anyone access to an untold number of sensitive scanned documents for almost 1,000 of these same drivers. Uber ID Breach
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It's
hard to muster the strength to talk about Windows XP anymore. In March
2014 it still held 30 percent of operating system marketshare, and now it's
down to 12 percent, which shows improvement but is still not
zero. Don't forget, XP is 14 years old. Organizations have encountered
challenges as they work to eliminate XP from their networks, and (suprising no
one) a recent audit shows that the Internal Revenue Service is struggling.
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Uber may be cool but what's it like to be an Uber driver - chased
by taxi-drivers, pestered for drugs by private schoolgirls and kicked by little
kids. Still, there are advantages, as this driver and blogger tells us over
lunch. Uber driver fears
crackdown, puts his thoughts down on blog
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These days A Pom can purchased a Canadian tank that I drove in Old Czechoslovak army for less than $20k ...
On Friday 9 October 2015 the SARS Enforcement division busted two suspects allegedly linked to an illicit gold industry syndicate in Nigel.
On Friday 9 October 2015 the SARS Enforcement division busted two suspects allegedly linked to an illicit gold industry syndicate in Nigel.
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arrests of suspected illicit gold industry syndicate members
Call it vigilanteware: Malware in a superhero cape. Instead
of stealing your credit card or doing anything malicious at all, a highly
virulent piece of malware, recently uncovered by security researchers at
Symantec, actually defends your machine against hackers and even remedies other
malware infections New
vigilante malware protects your computer from the bad guys
Big Data Analytics: A Missed Opportunity for the DATA Act. “[T]he Department of the Treasury won’t be setting up an antifraud analytics platform.” Gee, that’s odd.