Accounts payable fraud can impact any business, regardless of its size. The organisations that are most vulnerable are those without robust systems for verifying invoices against purchase orders and evidence of goods or services received. When controls on invoice approvals and payments are not consistently and rigorously enforced, this creates an opportunity for financial crime.

The Federal Court of Australia recently found in Luppino v Fisher that a mobile phone should not be treated as a “computer” or a “data storage device”. This had the effect of invalidating an earlier order made under s3LA of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) requiring the plaintiff to assist police to access data stored on a mobile phone, on the basis that the mobile phone was not a computer.

Medical systems and processes in the healthcare sector are becoming increasingly digital and Internet technologies are being used to speed up and improve the quality of the patient care. New analysis of medical image archiving systems being used across the globe by Greenbone Networks, a German cybersecurity firm, shows where things can go wrong.