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Top scams by loss, as reported to Scamwatch Australians reported 167,797 scams to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)-controlled Scamwatch in 2019. A 34% increase over the year prior, the financial impact in 2019 to Australians was just over AU$634 million. This was an average loss of AU$7,224. The Scamwatch Targeting scams 2019: A review […] More
Controversial facial recognition service Clearview AI has been marketing directly to individual Australian police officers, encouraging them to make 100+ searches during free trials, and to refer the service to their colleagues. In emails to Victoria Police [PDF] obtained under freedom of information laws by analyst Justin Warren last week, “Team Clearview” signed up at […] More
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61, together with Samsung Research and South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University, have developed a solution to protect consumers from voice spoofing attacks. The Voice liveness detection (Void) has been designed to be embedded in a smartphone or a voice assistance software to identify the difference between a live […] More
Image: Adobe Adobe plans to prompt users and ask them to uninstall Flash Player from their computers by the end of the year when the software is scheduled to reach End-Of-Life (EOL), on December 31, 2020. The move was announced in a new Flash Player EOL support page that Adobe published earlier this month, six […] More
Image via tweasel on Pixabay AMD said it plans to release firmware updates to fix a trifecta of bugs that impact some of its notebook and embedded systems CPUs. The three bugs, which AMD refers to as “SMM Callout,” allow attackers to take control over the UEFI firmware of AMD CPUS, and inherently of the […] More
Developer security champions are members of the development team that can translate application security into a language that the rest of the developers can understand. These champions embed application security knowledge where it’s needed most: with the dev team. Earlier this week, I spoke with the members of Forrester’s Security & Risk Council about developer security […] More
A team of Dutch and German academics has studied the aftermath of a major crackdown against DDoS providers and concluded that law enforcement takedowns are largely ineffective, recommending that authorities rather focus on patching the vulnerable systems that are abused for the DDoS attacks in the first place. The study, published last year on paper-hosting […] More
Bitcoin giveaway scams have been around for more than two years, but a new twist in tactics has helped scammers make more than $2 million over the past two months from Elon Musk’s name. The new trick involves the use of Bitcoin vanity addresses in order to give the scam more credibility in the eyes […] More
