Displaying items by tag: Australians

Almost 3 in 5 Aussies are worried about falling victim to a cybercrime this holiday season

GUEST RESEARCH: Norton, a global leader in Cyber Safety and part of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), revealed that 7 out of 10 Australians are concerned about their personal details being compromised.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, is urging Australian households to shop around for their NBN broadband plans and check for any offers that represent better value for them, following NBN Co notifying retailers of changes to the wholesale prices that it will charge them from next month.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accepted NBN Co’s latest proposed variation to its Special Access Undertaking (SAU), which includes measures designed to protect consumers from sharp price rises, reduce barriers to entry for new retailers and create incentives to fix systemic issues that drive poor NBN consumer experience.

Millions of Australians are ditching their phones after only two years or less, according to new research by comparison website Finder.

GUEST  OPINION by Adam LePeilbet, Senior Director and General Manager, Data Centre Solutions, Dell Technologies ANZ: Customers want a personalised, quick, and easy shopping experience. These expectations are heavily  shaped by online retail experiences, challenging brick-and-mortar retailers to transform their physical stores into engaging, personalised centres powered by real-time intelligence.

COMPANY NEWS by Telstra: Earlier in July, we talked about the results of our new SMS scam blocking feature, which in the preceeding three months since it was launched, had blocked over 185 million scam text messages.

Nine Cybersecurity Predictions For The Year Ahead

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Head of Asia Pacific and Japan at Ping Identity:  As Australian organisations dust themselves off from the challenges of 2022 and formulate plans for the year ahead, there are a range of key technological trends that will shape their chosen strategies.

Lifestyle and cultural shopping destination The Galeries will be collecting unwanted gifts on behalf of the Red Cross from December 26 as it brings attention to,  and expresses concern, that 80% of Australians receive unwanted gifts every year.

Banking industry veteran, Rob Craig has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer at payFURL, an Australian next generation online payment orchestration platform that connects merchants and retailers to tonline payment options available in Australia and globally.

Proofpoint research finds one in four top online retailers are failing to adequately protect Australians from potential email fraud

With one week to go until the start of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping period, cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint has released new research which has found one quarter (25%) of Australia’s top 100 online retailers are not taking appropriate measures to protect consumers from potential email fraud and cyber crime.

A thermal-imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds could enable nurses to identify these hard-to-heal sores during the first assessment at a person’s home, according to researchers at RMIT University and Bolton Clarke Research Institute.

Expectations remain low with the upcoming Labor 2022-23 Budget relating to anything remotely actionable and useful when it comes to keeping Australians safe online..

GBG’s  latest report, “The Evolution of First Party Fraud in Australia”, highlights the complexities of first party fraud amid the rising cost of living and inflation, and economic impacts of the pandemic on consumers.

More than a third of Aussies (35%) would delete themselves from the internet if they could, according to a new study commissioned by cybersecurity company NordVPN.

The Internet Association of Australia (IAA) has thrown its support behind Communications Minister Michelle Rowland in rejecting NBN Co’s proposed variation to the Special Access Undertaking (SAU).

Cisco, one of the Australia’s leading IT and networking companies, has joined Lifeline in pushing for better Mental Health in the workplace. For the second year running, Cisco will take part in The Push-Up Challenge as it aspires to top the community fundraising chart.

Aussies feel trapped by the digital economy with a new online survey finding that the majority of consumers feel they have to share personal data if they want to use digital services - but they don’t trust these organisations to protect that data.

Thirty-six percent of Australians – equivalent to almost 7 million people – are looking to buy a new mobile in 2022, with the Apple iPhone at the top of Australians’ shopping list, according to a survey by comparison website Finder.

GUEST OPINION: While there is pressure on application developers to make their products perform better under variable network conditions, networks themselves are also ripe for rework.

“Let’s talk scams” is the theme adopted by more than 350 partners across government, private and community organisations who have joined the fight against scams in this year’s national Scams Awareness Week.