Phishing
Messages that impersonate a real company to get your password or card details.
4 people have shared their stories about this.
What to do
Practical steps, in plain language.
Prevention
Cyber basics for small businesses
The small number of controls that prevent most losses for a business without a security team, and the one that matters most.
Read →Urgent Action
I clicked a suspicious link. What now?
What clicking actually does, what it does not do, and how to tell the difference between a scare and a real problem.
Read →Urgent Action
Someone has taken over my account
What to do in the first hour when someone else is inside your email, social or bank account, and how to work out how they got in.
Read →Explainer
What happens to your data after a breach
Where leaked data actually goes, why the scam calls start months later, and what is genuinely worth doing about it.
Read →It happened to them too
Written by people who went through it, in their own words.
I lent my phone hotspot to a stranger at the airport
“I was sitting at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali, just killing time before my flight back. This guy walks up to me pretty…”
A fake alert inside my crypto app cost me $28,000
“I'm still reeling from this, but I need to get the story out there because it’s honestly terrifying how easily it…”
I clicked a fake Fair Work email and my account emailed our suppliers
“Honestly, I still feel like a total muppet over this. I was the restaurant manager of a massive buffet in Sydney CBD.…”
A game mod from Discord turned my PC into a spam machine
“This one still messes with me because it started with something that felt harmless. I joined a random Discord server…”
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