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Telstra warns of phishing emails related to 700MHz customer trials

7 October 2014

Telstra has warned of scammers using phishing emails to target customers following its announcement of commercial trials for 700MHz mobile phone technology in Sydney and Adelaide....

Fake AusPost phishing emails lead to ransomware

7 October 2014

Phishing emails pretending to be from Australia Post as well as other well-known organisations have been targeting Australians with crypto-malware (also known as ransomware)....

Romance scammers setting up bogus social media accounts

8 October 2014

Romance scammers are incorporating increasingly realistic looking social media accounts into their scams, including stealing photos from legitimate users to present genuine looking profiles....

Viral Facebook videos spread malware

13 October 2014

Viral videos on social media which make sensational claims such as ‘You won’t believe what she did next’, or ‘Shocking Video’, are a well-known method for spreading scams and viruses....

Apple update stops 'iWorm' botnet targeting Macs and MacBooks

13 October 2014

Apple has released updates for the OS X systems to block a type of malware dubbed ‘iWorm’, which is responsible for infecting thousands of Macs, joining them to a botnet....

Snapchat photos breached via Snapsaved.com: SSO Alert Priority Moderate

14 October 2014

Thousands of photos and videos have been leaked after a third-party app used to covertly save photos taken with Snapchat, was breached....

Dropbox passwords leaked: SSO Alert Priority High

14 October 2014

Stolen username and password combinations, alleged to be for Dropbox accounts, have been posted online. Dropbox is a popular cloud-based storage service....

Security updates available for Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle: SSO Alert Priority High

15 October 2014

Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle have released scheduled software updates for their products which include fixes for a range of security issues....

‘POODLE’ vulnerability affects web browsers using old SSL encryption

21 October 2014

Updates are available to address a vulnerability called ‘POODLE’ that has been discovered in a type of encryption used to secure information sent between your internet browser and many websites....

Australian businesses targeted by internal wire transfer email scam

21 October 2014

Businesses and employees should be aware of a highly targeted and convincing phishing scam targeting individuals in Australian organisations with financial sign-off, such as the Chief Financial...

Microsoft warns of zero-day vulnerability being targeted via PowerPoint

27 October 2014

Microsoft has issued a security advisory, warning of a critical zero-day vulnerability (a previously unknown bug for which there is currently no fix available) affecting all versions of Windows,...

Fake speeding ticket emails distributing ransomware

31 October 2014

Australians should be wary of a new scam email campaign pretending to be a speeding ticket issued by a government authority such as the NSW Office of State Revenue....

Critical Drupal vulnerability, websites targeted automatically

3 November 2014

Drupal has warned of a critical vulnerability in its Drupal 7 software, for which it issued a patch. If your website manager was unable to apply this patch immediately following the initial...

Secure messaging app found to contain vulnerability

6 November 2014

A mobile app claiming to provide encrypted, secure messaging has been found to have a vulnerability which potentially allows messages to be accessed by another person....