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The stats don’t lie. Cybercrime is a profitable and growing industry. Australian businesses reported more than 5800 scams with losses exceeding AU$7.2 million in 2018 – a 53 per cent increase [...]

Every day, often multiple times a day, you are invited to click on links sent to you by brands, politicians, friends and strangers. You download apps on your devices. Maybe you use QR codes. Most [...]

Cyber crime is a threat to every organisation that operates internet-connected devices. It’s highly profitable, highly disruptive, and hard to police due to the transnational nature of [...]

I read a really good analogy recently about IT security: “IT security is like a balloon. If there’s even one hole, it’s not a balloon anymore.” (credit) Think about that for a minute, and you’ll [...]

It’s kind of nerdy, but I love well researched and presented information from reputable sources – especially when it’s free and helpful. Every year, the government’s Australian Cyber Security [...]

When you realise you’ve been hacked, it’s suffocating. You feel vulnerable, hopeless, like you can’t do anything online ever again. Your blood runs cold and you start raking over the what-ifs and [...]

How hard do you think about an email before you open it? If you are like most people, probably not at all. We use email so frequently that we have become indifferent to the dangers that may be [...]

Did you know your smartphone could be hacked without your knowledge? It’s amazing how reliant we are on our mobile phones. Making phone calls is almost a secondary feature of the technology these [...]

Have you ever watched one of those epic nature documentary scenes where wolves are preying on a herd of bison? The wolves eventually pick off a weak individual from the edge of the herd, while [...]