December 22 2009, 12:10am
Fraud: Social Media Heightens New Threats
As fraudsters increasingly seek to exploit weaknesses in consumers' defenses through social engineering schemes rather than hack vulnerabilities in banks' security systems, the need for enterprisewide solutions to detect fraud ...
December 17 2009, 2:47am
Five things you need to know about social engineering
Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick made a name for himself by cold-calling staffers at major U.S. ...
November 25 2009, 11:00pm
AVG Security Predictions for 2010
by Lloyd Borrett, Marketing Manager, AVG (AU/NZ) Melbourne, 26 November 2009 - Every year most of the security vendors' forecasts predict dramatic spikes in volumes of spam, phishing, botnet activity, ...
November 5 2009, 11:24am
The column on Kevin Rudd you wouldn't get in the post
The column on Kevin Rudd you wouldn't get in the post In the dying days of the1996 election campaign Paul Keating famously said “when you change the government, you change ...
November 4 2009, 9:00am
I doubt that this weakening of a cultural identity - and a moral influence - is smart social engineering:
October 27 2009, 8:23am
Leftist Social Engineering stuffs the Poms
The lesson in Melanie Philips’ piece is that you deliberately try to re-engineer a whole country at your peril. In its 1997 election manifesto, Labour promised ‘firm control over immigration’ ...
October 22 2009, 12:00am
Without prejudice, I sat alone to watch John Safran's Race Relations on ABC TV last night. This means that I avoided reading or researching the program in the lead up ...
October 20 2009, 10:42am
Security experts emphasise social engineering risks
F-Secure and Sophos urge greater caution.
October 16 2009, 9:10am
Conservatives against Afghanistan
Andrew Sullivan has published an email from a reader putting what Sullivan calls 'the conservative case for cutting our losses' in Afghanistan: Critics of non-intervention tend to accuse their opponents ...