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How to outsmart the scammers including lottery giveaways 9 Mar 2013 | 12:15 pm
The impact of phone and email scams can be devastating, says the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in its public information campaign against scams. Lately, scammers have also been ...
Internet service provider penalised $112,500 for breach of TIO determinations 2 Feb 2013 | 06:57 am
Here is another good news – a victory to the public against telcos. The Federal Court has imposed a penalty to an ISP for breaching telecommunications law. According to the Australian Communications a...
ACMA’s Do Not Call Register contractor breaches Act 4 Jan 2013 | 05:20 pm
A call centre operator has recently learned that its calling list should be regularly checked against numbers entered into the Do Not Call register to ensure legal compliance and avoid penalties. This...
Be in a friend’s mailing list and be a spammer’s delight 29 Oct 2012 | 02:30 am
No, I don’t refer to joining mailing lists where the email message is customized to reflect the recipient’s identity or the email message is addressed to an aliased egroup. I refer to being in a maili...
Tiger Airways caught breaching Spam Act 29 Oct 2012 | 01:34 am
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has recently issued an enforceable undertaking and payment of a $110,000 infringement notice to Tiger Airways Holdings Limited for failure of its Aust...
Aussie internet users better protected against malware, says ACMA research 19 Oct 2012 | 09:05 am
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) reported recently that internet users in Australia are better protected against malware infections because of the actions of internet providers...
“Ignore, Block, Report” a troll to protect yourself, says Cybersmart 17 Sep 2012 | 01:41 pm
The government’s Cybersmart program has developed actions to help Australian children and youth protect themselves and others agains the impact of trolling, reported the Australian Communications and ...
Beware of carbon price scams, ACCC warns 12 Sep 2012 | 08:10 am
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has recently issued a warning to consumers and businesses to be on the look out for carbon price scams, particularly calls asking for personal informat...
Phishing uses smart phone lucky draw prizes 14 Aug 2012 | 09:20 pm
Lucky draw prizes are commonly used as baits in phishing schemes and in July 2012, phishers offered a smart phone as a lucky draw prize, a Symantec blog post reported recently. The Symantec report als...
China – home of the world’s worst spam ISPs 11 Aug 2012 | 02:43 pm
China has been reported again by spam-tracking organisation, Spamhaus, as being home of the top three of “The World’s Worst Spam Support ISPs”. The three ISPs are unicom-cn, chinanet-gd, and chinanet-...
