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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This short video outlines the dangers of email based viruses, and provides some helpful tips to avoid infection.

We all know how damaging and disruptive viruses and malware can be. It used to be that if you ran the latest antivirus software you could consider yourself protected. Unfortunately, this is no [...]

Zubair Baig, Edith Cowan University and Nikolai Hampton, Edith Cowan University. What would it mean if you lost all of your personal documents, such as your family photos, research or business [...]