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Corrupt cop jailed for four years for 18-month fraud spree – 16 September 2020
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.
Drug kingpins, fraudsters and a jailed banker on database – 16 September 2020
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 inquiry into foreign interference through social media.
Telstra to block Services Australia SMS phishing scams – 15 September 2020
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 phishing text messages that appear to be sent from myGov, the government’s online services portal, and Centrelink.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-to-block-services-australia-sms-phishing-scams-553339
Project examining extent of technology-facilitated abuse in Australia launches – 14 September 2020
Led by Monash University and RMIT, stage one of a project researching the extent of the use of technology to facilitate sexual abuse and violence against women will begin. Technology-facilitated abuse refers to the use of mobile, internet and surveillance technologies in interpersonal harms such as online sexual harassment, stalking, partner violence and image-based abuse.
