India-based IT company Satyam is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The incident, which some are calling India's Enron, may end up costing hundreds of IT workers in Australia their jobs and... (Read More)

As some of you may know I blogged about the growing network of Cybercrime and its implications a little while back. So I was pleasantly surprised when I read the news this morning that the Police through it's Serious Organised Crime Agency (interestingly termed 'Soca'), shut down a website that... (Read More)

It seems that botnet usage could have been behind an increase in the number of click fraud clicks cited in the latest Click Fraud Index which monitors such things. Running for three years now, the index monitors and analyses data from more than 4000 online advertisers and advertising agencies. The... (Read More)

Researchers at web gateway security specialists Finjan have uncovered an underground crime data exchange service which is highly sophisticated in nature. The exchange, known as SellCVV2, promotes the sale of fraudulent credit card data, offering not only volume discounts for fraudsters with bigger... (Read More)

Internet security giant Symantec has just published the latest Internet Security Threat Report, based on an in-depth analysis of global Internet traffic and email during the last six months. Beyond all the usual who is hosting what and where, how much malware is contained in spam and which threats... (Read More)

A report published today by Experian suggests that for many a business we are still living in the dark ages as far as making sure customers are who they say they are. Furthermore, the Electronic Authentication: Breaking the Paper Chain report at least partly blames those businesses for the growth... (Read More)