Increasing concerns about online privacy have forced social media app developers to be more transparent about which information on your profile they can access. For most of us, the days of accepting any old invitation to farm crops or hunt zombies via Facebook are over, partly because we’re more aware of the online privacy pitfalls, [...]
Late last week we saw evidence of an email phishing scam, pretending to be from Apple, offering discount cards to loyal customers. Seen below, the scam is similar to previous examples we’ve observed to be popping up over the last year or so. [...]
Ransom and extortion in the physical world is usually a big deal in Australia – from the Arnott’s Biscuits scandals in the 90s to Madeleine Pulver’s recent fake-collar-bomb ordeal, we’ve been glued to the tube. What is far less captivating, and what most Australians aren’t aware of, is the growing number of online exploits [...]
User attitudes towards technology have changed. Gone are the days of green screens, slow downloads, clunky keyboards and complex set up procedures. Today we find ourselves surrounded by touchscreen user interfaces, geolocation-aware mobile devices and ‘one-click’ installation procedures. The sum result of these developments is that we expect three things from technology today: usability, usability [...]
Could your computer or networking equipment be one of more than 10,000 that are still affected by the “DNSChanger” malware from last year? Let me first explain what DNS is, and then explain this amazing situation – which has left the FBI holding the bag, and over 10,000 users in Australia and New Zealand potentially in [...]
Since 1991, AVG has been at the vanguard of consumer protection. We’ve been working to protect you and your family from computerised security risks well before the online community had even heard of Yahoo!, and we already had a trusted AVG Free product by the time the dot com bubble burst all over the US [...]
We have become aware of a phishing email circulating in Australia at the moment, claiming to be from Telstra and addressed to “Dear BigPond User“.
Identity theft has become one of our biggest modern fears. The idea of someone else using our information to steal money and rack up debts is genuinely scary – not least because, if it happens, it can mean years of struggle to undo the damage. The hard truth is, you can’t be too careful when [...]
One of the ways we sometimes see criminals making money is by taking advantage of legitimate advertising networks and fraudulently altering promotional collateral, including competition entry forms – often from large and otherwise trusted brand names. The method that makes this type of fraud possible is a commercial Internet marketing arrangement known as “Cost per [...]
We’ve all heard the horror story: someone logs into their internet banking, checks their balance at an ATM or goes to use their credit card – and realises that their bank account has been cleared. As much as we all fear this happening to us, the truth is, it’s not the only example of financial [...]
