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Tomorrow’s Black Friday sales may be the spark which Australian businesses “desperately need” after a flat year of sales, the National Retail Association has predicted.

Over half (60%) of Australians shop online weekly and the majority (67%) are concerned about the prevalence of online scams, yet one-quarter admit they are likely to click on a link via Facebook or other social media to get a good deal, according to recent research from digital security and privacy company Avast.

Consumers are being warned to watch out for scam websites impersonating high-profile Australian retailers when shopping online this Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale weekend on 24 to 27 November.

COMPANY NEWS: With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, Yubico, the leading provider of passwordless hardware authentication security keys, has announced that during Cyber Week, which runs from 20-27 November, YubiKeys will be available for “buy one key, get 50% off your second key.”

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.

GUEST OPINION: As the biggest sales event of the year looms large, online crooks are starting to target eager consumers looking to save big on Black Friday.

New retail data from Eftpos has revealed the Black Friday sales surge moved beyond online to music shops, fashion outlets, department stores and appliance retailers

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been, with 8.9 million Australian shoppers spending $5.4 billion. Retailers need to be sure their websites can handle the flood of traffic, now, next time, and at all times of high demand. commercetools powers some of the world’s largest online stores and it’s here to help, both in Australia and globally.

IIt's Black Friday Fri-yay, with Cyber Mon-yay due in 3 days, as Vodafone "offers a range of savings for customers across its Postpaid, Prepaid and device ranges", with "up to 50%" savings on devices with massive bonus data, from 24 to 30 November

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, with the cash registers belling and everyone telling you oh what a year, it’s the hap-happiest sales season of all - Black Friday week and Cyber Monday the next!

Australian consumers are set to fork out a whopping $1.3 billion online over the four days from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, amidst a growing trend of consumers moving their Christmas shopping to the earlier period of late-November than the traditional time of December.

Australia’s online retailers are susceptible to cybercriminals spoofing their brand identity and increasing the risk of email fraud for customers, according to a new report.

Security firm RiskIQ, which closely tracks incidences of online shopping sites being compromised, has put out a study in which it claims that Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two big online shopping days, are sure to be in the sights of cyber criminals.

With Amazon stating "Cyber Monday once again becomes the single biggest shopping day in the company’s history with the most products ordered worldwide", including "a record number of Amazon devices globally this holiday weekend", Amazon has proven amazing yet again.

Amazon held its first ever Australian Black Friday sale, with the company reporting its most popular products as you'll read below, but as you'd expect, the deals continue today on "Cyber Monday".

Financial phishing scams, which target online payment systems, banks and retailers, now account for nearly half (49.77%) of all phishing attacks, up from 34.33% in 2015, security company Kaspersky Lab says.

If you want to buy Star Wars’ BB8 or Kylo Ren during the Black Friday sales – you are out of luck because they were snapped up by bargain hungry, online shoppers.

From today until ‘Cyber Monday’ on 30 November, with new deals posted ‘throughout the week’, Newegg promises more than 260 ‘deep discounts’ are now available.

200 small online businesses are already involved in an attempt to bring a US-style Cyber Monday online shopping event to Australia.

Click Frenzy gets competition from a local entrepreneur who hopes to emulate the success of Cyber Monday in the US.