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Get on with warning your elderly family members about scams
It can be hard work, but what's at stake is a lot harder.
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Norton Genie brings some Dan Levy levity to scam protection
Norton Genie is a new tool for checking if something you've been sent is a scam. Screenshot a text message, email, or other suspicious info and it will examine the details and let you know if it's a scam or not. Well now Norton has brought
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CBA financial abuse code release
Commonwealth Bank has significantly reduced incidents of abusive transactions (where money is sent to someone to send them a threatening message) over recent years. Now it's sharing its machine learning code via GitHub to help other financial institutions do the same. Nice one, CBA.
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Norton's Phishing Dictionary is a nice security primer
It's safest to assume you're about to be scammed online these days. For the less technical, it's hard to keep up with all the types of attacks you need to be wary of and what to watch out for. Norton's "Phictionary&
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The future of trust and security
Sponsored by IBM. Trust and security have been a big challenge throughout the pandemic, but the events of 2022 have tested these ideas like never before.
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💡 Weekly: Is anyone *not* getting hacked out there?
News rounded up from Google, USB 4, Medibank, Spotify exclusive pods, positive social apps for teens, and AI bias issues in the jobs market.
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💡 Byteside Weekly: Optus says 'yes, we were hacked'
No bigger news than the Optus hack this week, but there's still plenty more to explore in this week's round up.
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Scam involving fake QR codes found on parking meters
Several instances of scams using QR codes have been discovered in Texas. Always double-check before you check-in with a QR code.
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Google kicks app with 5.8M downloads for stealing Facebook logins
Photo editors, horoscopes, and fitness apps amongst the genres found to be intercepting Facebook login data across nine apps.
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First devil babies in 3,000 years
Digital ID creeping toward online verification systems, a ridesharing co-op launches in New York, HP buys HyperX plus more news from Compux.
Technology
Japan's lunar transformer is the cutest space mission yet
Japan sending a cute transforming ball bot to the moon, Have I Been Pwned going open source, a Google privacy mess and lots more.
Media
The Disinformation Dozen
Our top tech, science and digital culture news for Monday, May 17. Includes news from the ASD, eBay, Twitter Blue, FF XIV, and lots more.