[Informatics] Data security - Tax Scams

[Mark]

A security bonus - A guide to ransomware...
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/hacker-lexicon-guide-
ransomware-scary-hack-thats-rise/
The article may be from 2015, but you can bet that things have only become
worse since then.

You might need another doona and *two* packs of TimTams after reading that
one.

Mark




On 10 April 2017 at 12:51, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> Hi, taxpayers
>
> https://www.wired.com/2017/04/tax-scams-absurdly-common-heres-protect/
>
> While this article is US-centric, much of this also applies to Oz and
> might be a useful real-life scenario to demonstrate to your darlings the
> dangers of biting on every phishing hook you see, re-using passwords, or
> having blind faith in the security protocols of people to whom you entrust
> personal information (such as tax agents, or perhaps cloud providers).
>
> There's also information on disturbing new tricks of the scamming trade,
> such as lodging an early return on the victim's behalf and pocketing the
> refund.
>
> It's just another reason to climb under the doona and eat Tim Tams while
> considering changing your ATO password from "123456" to something a little
> more secure.
>
> *“Do not underestimate the value of your personal data,” says Ebba Blitz,
> CEO of the disk encryption company Alertsec. “There is a market for your
> information.”*
>
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> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
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