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Customers may now report SMS and MMS scams to a national phone number, telecommunications provider Telstra announced, as the telco takes stronger initiative to crack down text scams.

UCaaS provider Access4's new SMS service enables partners to provide customers with SMS capability to improve business communications, better engage contacts, and setup automated workflows with direct message notifications, according to the company.

The telecommunications industry regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has taken action against a number of telcos after compliance failures were used by scammers to send SMS road toll, Medicare and Australia Post impersonation scams to consumers.

Operators will lose US$1.3 billion to undetected flash calls between 2023 to 2027, according to a forecast report by Juniper Research.

Only 37% of IT pros are concerned about phishing or say they know what to do following a data breach 

A quarter of Australian office workers admit to using the same password for more than one account 

Data breaches have seemingly had little or no impact on how IT decision makers view the risks to their organisations, according to new research from security awareness training and human resources platform provider KnowBe4.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined sole trader Noah Rose, trading as BetDeluxe, a $50,172 infringement notice as part of the regulatory body’s crackdown on spam-unsubscribing rules.

A Sydney man has been ordered to perform 100 hours of community service by the Sydney Downing Centre District Court for attempting to blackmail Optus customers by using data stolen during the attack on the telco that came to light last year.

GUEST OPINION: Most of us are familiar with two-factor authentication, or 2FA, as an additional security measure when logging in to various sites such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and other popular websites and applications we use every day.

The ACMA has warned the public about the proliferation of the “Hi Mum” text message, which may appear to be from a family member claiming to have forgotten or lost their card and asking the victim to transfer money, and could possibly be a scam.

A new study has revealed that mobile operators will lose out to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp to the tune of US$2.5 billion next year – an increase of 20% over 2022.

In the midst of a spate of data breaches — there have been eight reported in Australia since Optus led the way — the last thing one would expect is for any company to send out digital communications asking people to verify their identity.

End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal has updated the version of the application available to Android users so they can transfer SMS messages to another messaging client, a spokesperson for the company says.

End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal will phase out support for plaintext SMS and MMS messages in its Android app over the next few months.

Patients at Royal Perth Hospital can now obtain electronic prescriptions that can be dispensed at community pharmacies with the rollout of services in a joint project between Royal Perth Hospital, WA Heath Support Services and the Australian Digital Health Agency.

New rules developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in conjunction with industry body Communications Alliance require telcos to identify, trace and block SMS scams.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued a new scam alert warning of an SMS offering a free COVID-19 test kit which has emerged in recent days.

Telstra has switched on a brand-new SMS scam filter to better protect its customers from scam text messages, blocking them at a network level before they reach devices.

IT decision-makers are complacent about risks from phishing and business email compromise, also known as CEO fraud, according to research by KnowBe4.

Optus is doing its part to keep the friends and family of those in Ukraine connected by offering free calls, with Optus CEO Kelly Beyer Rosmarin and its MD of Marketing and Revenue, Matt Williams, making posts on LinkedIn, too.

Smart receipt provider Slyp has completed its Series A fundraising worth $25 million backed by new investors: advisory and investment firm Sayers together with four major banks.