cyber crime
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Australians Admitted To Losing More Than $33 Billion To Cybercrime Last Year
Australians made 67,500 cybercrime reports last financial year, and not surprisingly, most of them were related to the pandemic. The figure is a 13% year-on-year increase – and equates to one report of a cyberattack every eight minutes. Self-reported losses from cybercrime last year totalled more than $33 billion. In its latest report, the Australian…
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Hackers Found A New Way To Rip Off ATMs
Photo: Getty Ripping the faces off ATMs and injecting them with malware is great fun, sure, but not so much when you get caught by a security guard and tossed in jail. For these reasons and more, many cyber criminals are turning to a less than hands-on approach and attacking ATMs remotely instead.
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The FBI Is Struggling To Hire Hackers Who Don’t Smoke Weed
The FBI has a problem. The agency needs to hire hackers to build out its cyber crime division, but it also will not hire anyone who’s smoked weed in the past three years. And guess what? A lot of hackers like to smoke weed.