Interesting piece in yesterday’s Gold Coast Bulletin (no URL available without subscription) about the role of the Russian Mafia, or more specifically, criminal gangs from the former Soviet Union, in Australia. It cites several cases of Denial of Service attacks in retaliation for refusal to pay blackmail or protection money: When Multibet.com CEO Mike Miller… Read More »
Here’s one of those moments when you wonder whether banks have yet got on online security. The Melbourne Age, reporting from the birthplace of phishing, reports today that customers of Australia’s Westpac bank are getting flummoxed by the appearance of a new pop-up window on its Internet banking page. The pop-up, according to one user,… Read More »
It seems that some of the ‘Russian mafia’ involved in phishing scams in Australia are being rounded up at last. The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Saturday (no URL available, here’s the Google cache of the story) that police there have arrested two men, one a 21-year-old Moscow-born Sydney resident, and the other a “22-year-old Southport man, formerly… Read More »
An interesting academic piece on the privacy aspects of Plaxo (and other networking services), noticed by bagus. Roger Clarke, who wears several hats as an academic and consultant in Australia and Hong Kong, focuses not on the privacy of those who sign up for such services but “on a matter that is new, and of great… Read More »
Phishing emails don’t need to be sophisticated to lure the unwary. Indeed, there’s some evidence those behind the more convincing looking emails masquerading as bank emails are also behind a spate of key-logging trojans, which use basic methods to fool the recipient into making them active. Australian Daniel McNamara of anti-phishing website Code Fish has… Read More »