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Scammers are always out to trick you, to get you to fall for a con. What can security experts recommend to prevent you falling for scams?

This week on The Wrap, we’ll talk all about scams, speaking to experts from Sophos and Trend Micro to get a gauge on how they work and how to avoid getting scammed. All in five minutes.

You're probably doing what you can to stay safe in these strange times, but that will have to include being aware of scams, too.

With the arrival of an SMS "informing" of a potential win, it's a good time to point out that scams don't really have a season, and are more a permanent year-round thing.

Not sure how you'll stop your kids from checking out all of the nasty things the internet has available? A service might just be available for your router. Provided your router is made by Linksys, that is.

We've heard for a long time that a padlock means a website is secure, but more websites than ever have a lock and are secure. With that in mind, it this rule really fair dinkum?

Social networking brings us together with people we'd love to stay in contact with, and keeps the communication going. But what happens when it seems your friends are cloned, and why do people pretend to be your friends? Who are the fake friends, and what's their purpose?

The smart home is well and truly alive as more smart speakers arrive, but what does this mean for our security? It's not all doom and gloom, and both education and protection will help.

Australia is high on a lot of lists — best places to go for a holiday, best location for wine makers — but one we don’t want to be high on is for cyber security. And yet we are.

Microsoft makes a meaty Xbox, Toshiba returns to TVs, a new type of malware makes for a better security case, and Sony's Xperia XA1 gets reviewed. This is The Wrap.