How Westpac dealt with its first phishing attack

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How Westpac dealt with its first phishing attack

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On Friday July 4 2003, Westpac chief information security officer Richard Johnson got a call from a concerned executive. Someone had created a fake Westpac online banking website. It was the first time the bank had ever come face to face with what we’d now consider an online banking ...

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