by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | News & Analysis
A CSIRO contractor has been sentenced over fraudulent behaviour, after he used the organisation’s servers and supercomputers to carry out cryptocurrency mining. The AFP found he had used CSIRO technology to mine an estimated $9400 in cryptocurrency....
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | News & Analysis
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Scamwatch has received 560 reports of rental scams so far this year. This is a 56% increase as scammers target people looking for a rental property during COVID by offering fake properties and tricking...
by admin | Sep 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
John Leonard Webster, a former Wellers Hill State School principal has been charged with 35 serious criminal offences following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation. It is suspected that he misused his Education Department-issued corporate credit card and...
by admin | Sep 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
Rosa Catherine Ross, a disgraced Victoria Police sergeant has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to 10 fraud offences, including deceiving locksmiths, to dishonestly obtain six properties....
by admin | Sep 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
Hundreds of Australian people smugglers, fraudsters, drug kingpins and a former Macquarie banker jailed for dealing ecstasy are named on a leaked Chinese database. The leaked database has been met with concern and alarm in Australia and will now form part of a Senate...
by admin | Sep 15, 2020 | News & Analysis
Working with Services Australia and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Telstra has piloted a new malicious text message blocking service on its network that stops impersonation attempts from reaching Services Australia customers. It will identify and rejects...
