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Research Impact: ‘Whistling While They Work’ – 28 March 2019

The Whistling While They Work (WWTW) project, led by Professor A J Brown of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, is investigating employee and managerial experience in Australia and New Zealand to identify the factors that influence good and bad responses to whistleblowing across a wide range of organisations.

https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2019/03/28/whistling-while-they-work-has-research-impact/

NAB questioned on ‘catastrophic’ fraud oversight – 28 March 2019

The CEO of NAB (Phil Chronican) was questioned about how a $40 million fraud case went undetected for years, until a bank staff member blew the whistle. He said he was “distinctly unhappy” to learn of the alleged fraud and organisation needed much tighter approach to discipline on every element of the business. 

https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nab-s-chronican-distinctly-unhappy-to-learn-of-alleged-fraud-20190327-p5184i.html

NAB to scrap scandal-plagued Introducer Program – 25 March 2019

National Australia Bank will scrap its controversial Introducer Program, in a bid to improve its reputation after the banking royal commission. NAB’s head of broker services Anthony Waldron admitted to the commission that the Introducer Program had breached responsible lending laws — which could expose the bank to both criminal and civil charges.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-25/nab-dumps-controversial-introducer-program/10936034

A scammer claims to have become a Bitcoin millionaire by using a technique known as ‘typosquatting.’ – 22 March 2019

A man says he scooped more than 200 Bitcoin over a period of four years, with many individual users losing in excess of $20,000 each. To do this he used “Typosquatting”, where websites look like the real thing, but are one or two letters (or characters) off the real address. The scammer’s claims came to light after he bragged about them in a post on a spoofed domain.

https://micky.com.au/internet-cheat-how-i-retired-a-bitcoin-millionaire/