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Media, social and consumer intelligence provider Meltwater and socially-led creative agency We Are Social have jointly released Digital 2024, their latest annual report on social media and digital trends worldwide.

Cybersecurity solutions provider Bitdefender Labs says it has been monitoring the growing trend among cybercriminals who actively exploit social media networks for malvertising, and the “end goal of these attacks” is to hijack accounts and “steal personal data” through malicious software.

Fake emails supposedly from Telstra have been sent to unsuspecting Internet users by scammers asking you to complete a form to avoid disruption or cancellation of your service?

The fourth quarter of 2021 closed with 341.7 million domain name registrations globally across all top-level domains, an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.0% compared to the third quarter of 2021.

GUEST OPINION by Joanne Wong, Vice President – International Marketing, LogRhythm:  It’s something almost every internet user has experienced. An email arrives, purporting to be from a trusted source, but in reality it’s an attempt to steal personal details or cause disruption.

Australians are taking up subscriptions to streaming services in ever increasing numbers, with 71% of Aussies with a TV set in the home using at least one paid video streaming service in 2019.

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.

Digital freedoms and rights group, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), has called on the Attorney-General – George Brandis - to cease what it says is his “absurd
war of attrition” with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

The peak bodies of both the Internet and Telecommunications industries have lambasted the federal government’s promised allocation of just $131 million to meet the compliance costs of its mandatory data retention regime.

The chief of the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) has again criticised the federal government’s data retention legislation, raising concerns that the legislation risks “unintended consequences” that will hurt Internet users.