Tesco Bank refunds £2.5m after mass online fraud
Tesco Bank in the UK has restored online transactions for over a 100,000 customers after last freezing services due to a mass fraud attack on the weekend.
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Driftnetting – the new threat vector
Phishing, spearphishing, whaling are all nautical terms that have been created or adopted by the information security industry. The AFP has coined a new term.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Apr | Read more
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FBI: CEO spoofing has cost businesses $2.3bn in under three years
The FBI has issued a warning over a massive increase in business email scams or ‘whaling attacks’, which have cost businesses a staggering $2.3bn in losses in under three years.
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Australian consumers faced losing up to $50,000 from toll call fraud on a single carrier’s network during a spike in criminal network attacks over the Easter holiday period.
MyNetPhone VoIP carrier subsidiary SymbioNetworks has revealed that it blocked over 10,000 attempts by scam operators to place fraudulent calls via compromised Australian routers and PABX systems during the holiday long weekend.
Andrew Colley | 05 Apr | Read more
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Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics
Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.
Mark Gibbs | 20 Nov | Read more