Security

Alongside new phones and earphones on the way from Google is also protection for its services from scammers making online work difficult.

It's been some time since a scammer tried to pull one over us with Bitly's link shortening service, but if you get one of these scams, here's what to do.

Your password may as well be easily broken, but these days we have other methods of keeping your life secure, so on World Password Day, we're asking why are we still using passwords?

Scammers might have found a new way to be convincing, as a recent AusPost text scam seems to suggest. How do you tell?

Even with Telstra's Cleaner Pipes doing some of the heavy lifting, SMS scams are getting through, and scammers are getting better. How can you decipher one at a moment's notice?

If you've suddenly begun to get fewer SMS scams in the past few months, and you're on Telstra or one of its supported virtual operators, there's a good reason why.

The next time you get a phone call, if the number is eerily close to yours, there's a good chance it's a scam.

If you run a website, a blog, or a small business, and you use images online, there's a good chance an image scam will go after you. Here's what to do.

It doesn't take much to get scammers to do something reprehensible. Usually money gets them motivated, and in the latest scam, pretending to be the Ukraine is the go.

The last thing an NBN scammer should do is call someone who writes about scams, and yet that's what happened, so here's how an NBN scam script can work.