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• Scams cost Australians more than $100M a year

  Australians have so far lost $118.5 million to scams as at October 2019, which is already $10 million more than what it cost in 2018 ($107 million).

• QLD deploying new facial image processing for driver licences

  Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has signed a new deal with Unisys to provide facial image processing technology and services for the state’s smart card driver licences.

• Rise in children’s identities being sold on the dark web

  Michael Connory’s firm Security in Depth develops cyber security awareness programs for corporate organisations.

• FBI grabs a Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive

  The FBI this week said it had nabbed one of the agency's <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber">Cyber's Most Wanted</a> outlaws -- John Gordon Baden who is charged with stealing the identities of 40,000 people and then using the information to siphon millions of dollars from brokerage or bank accounts.

• Identity crime costing Australia $1.6b every year, govt says

  The economic impact of identity crime on Australia is costing the country up to $1.6 billion each year, according to a new report by the Attorney-General’s Department.

• Identity crime victim centre opens in Sippy Downs, Queensland

  A new support centre called iDcare has been opened in Sippy Downs, Queensland for victims of identity theft around Australia.

• How keylogging malware steals your information (includes video)

  George Waller from StrikeForce Technologies demonstrations how this malicious software sneaks onto your computer and then steals your sensitive data

• IRS uncorks Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013

  The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers that there are plenty of scam artists and cybercriminals that want your money.

• Financial, health data dumped in Sydney rubbish bins

  Some Sydney bank branches, lawyers' and doctors' offices have been found guilty of not properly disposing of personal information in rubbish bins which could be used by criminals for the purposes of fraud or identity theft following a private investigation.

• AusCERT 2011: Identity theft no joke for Welsh comedian

  As a professional comedian Bennett Arron gets paid to see the funny side of things, but a run-in with identity thieves in the 1990s had him far from laughing.

• Identity theft, e-fraud top Australian security concerns: Unisys

  Financial fraud, identity theft and environmental disasters lean more heavily on Australians’ minds than national security threats, according to a Unisys report.

• Thieves are stealing children's identities

  Identity theft has saddled thousands of children with debt, sometimes for years before they ever discover their personal information has been stolen, a study says.

• Identity theft down but cost skyrockets

  Identity theft related to credit and debit cards dropped by 28 per cent in 2010 over 2009 -- but the out-of-pocket cost to victimized consumers rose by 68 per cent.

• Job search scams: Protect yourself against identity theft

  As unemployment has increased, so too has the number of job search scams identity theft rings are perpetrating against desperate job seekers.

• ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach

  Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay to compensate potential victims of identity theft for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.