by admin | Nov 7, 2018 | News & Analysis
Cryptocurrency fraudsters are hacking verified Twitter accounts, changing their names to something that resembles prominent business people like Elon Musk (Tesla founder) and promoting tweets for false Bitcoin giveaways....
by admin | Nov 7, 2018 | News & Analysis
Police have spent 12 months investigating a mysterious fraud committed on the ACT public housing taskforce. It seems the fraud was allowed to happen by staff failing to verify a contractors’ bank account details. It also triggered an internal review of the...
by admin | Nov 7, 2018 | News & Analysis
A decade of banking’s dirtiest laundry has been aired after the Hayne royal commission published summaries of misconduct stretching back 10 years, revealing disturbing new incidents of fraud, overcharging, theft, privacy breaches, assault and sexual harassment....
by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | News & Analysis
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool called “gait recognition” software. It uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. China’s artificial intelligence...
by admin | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Analysis
In the final months of the Obama administration, US giant Walmart had to pay nearly $US1 billion and accept a guilty plea to resolve a foreign bribery investigation. Barclays, faced demands that it pay nearly $US7 billion to settle civil claims, and the Royal Bank of...
by admin | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Analysis
NSW police and crime agencies are preparing to use a new national facial recognition system, to rapidly match pictures of people captured on CCTV with their driver’s licence photo. Under new laws the federal and state governments will be able to access data and...
