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GUEST OPINION by Jamie Atherton, Country Manager ANZ, Hyland: Data has rapidly become an absolute focal point of every government department, committee, sub-committee and agency. It underpins critical decision-making, communication between departments and the general public, research and a host of other daily functions.

GUEST OPINION by Simon Howe, Vice President Sales – APAC, LogRhythm: With large numbers of people now sitting in home offices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is turning to what this means when it comes to achieving effective IT security.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, Director, MaxContact: Australia’s small and medium business sector is doing it tough and finding practical and affordable ways to connect with customers and prospects is critical to survival, Daniel Harding argues.

Business email compromise (BEC) was the most prevalent security threat in Australia in 2019, accounting for 23.6% of global attempts and placing Australia in the top two countries with the most attempted attacks - and with the healthcare sector globally remaining the most targeted industry.

A crackdown on scams perpetrated over phone networks is underway as the Australian Government works with the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA in an effort to combat the increasing scurge of scams.

Fertility business Monash IVF Group has had its internal email servers hacked, but has not made any public announcement about it yet.

The quality of customer service delivered by Australian professionals is being impacted by an average of two hours of wasted time every week as they try to track down the right information internally they need to do their jobs, but despite this many professionals say that collaboration technology would help them do their job more efficiently.

Australia continues to be a malware target, with 9.2 million malware detections in the first half of 2019 - with malicious URLs also proving a popular form of attack, as the number of times a malicious URL was accessed reached 8.9 million, according to a new global security report.

Email remains one of the key attack vectors used by cybercriminals, leaving many organisations hugely vulnerable because they don’t have adequate protection in place, according to software company Wavelink, a distributor for security vendor Fortinet

A Brisbane pizza store is claiming a new Australian record for fast food, by consistently delivering freshly made pizzas to customer’s houses in less than six minutes for an entire week, with the support of “world-first software” that gives its pizza chefs a head start.

Australian-operated, Thai-owned rural and regional satellite internet service provider IPSTAR Broadband is offering unmetered and non-speed-restricted data to Internet users in regional Australia - via Skymuster satellite - for essential services including emails, general browsing and social media.

Telstra and cloud-based enterprise messaging solutions vendor Soprano Design have launched version 3.0 of Telstra’s Integrated Messaging solution.

Security vendor Deep Instinct has detected malware that targets Microsoft Outlook and has compromised more than 250 million email accounts.

The banking industry is increasingly becoming a favourite among cyber criminals, according to security vendor MailGuard, which has detected a new phishing email scam purporting to be from Westpac.

Cyber criminals continue to use email as a primary vehicle to steal data and deliver advanced threats, according to one security firm which reveals that phishing attacks targeting email users were the most prominent type of cyber attack globally in 2018.

Digital rights organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia has urged Australians to do three things to protect their online privacy: get a password manager, review their Facebook settings and turn on two-factor authentication.

Changes in the threat landscape mean organisations should take a fresh look at their endpoint security measures, Trend Micro global vice-president of market strategy Eric Skinner has told iTWire.

Symantec Email Fraud Protection is designed to help organisations automatically prevent fraudulent emails from being delivered.

Users of Microsoft's Exchange Online service have been unable to access email since 10.10am UTC (9pm Monday AEDT), with the company promising another update in about eight hours.

Security firm Proofpoint has found that banking trojans and malware that steal credentials were the most prominent digital threats - nearly 94% - in the third quarter of 2018, based on analysis of its traffic.