Remote access is a favourite tool of scammers lately, experts say. Here's how one victim was duped for $100,000.
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Remote access is a favourite tool of scammers lately, experts say. Here's how one victim was duped for $100,000.
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A number of apps have recently made their way into the Google Play Store with a little something extra: malware. The malware, which has been dubbed “Joker,” is designed to sneakily sign users up for subscription services, ones that they might be charged for over the course of several months.
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Some of the web's most-visited porn sites are increasingly putting their visitors at risk of being infected by harmful software, a researcher finds.
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It's been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the "Doomsday" for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world's computer...
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It has just gone 2pm (AEST) which means the FBI has switched off the servers infected by criminal malware.
Potentially millions of people around the world could lose access to the internet because of a virus installed on their computers more than a year ago.
In Australia Telstra has come up with a temporary solution which will keep customers online, even if they are infected.
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Internet providers in the US are preparing to help customers because thousands around the country whose computers were infected with malicious software more than a year ago face the possibility of not being able to get online.
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Despite repeated alerts, thousands of Australians may still lose their internet service come early next week unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.