Security

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 Dan Levy into the team to help promote the free app to the masses. We need more friendly tools like this, so it's a clever promo push.

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.

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" is a nice way to get an overview of what's what out there. Well worth a look and a share with family members you're worried about.