The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In addition to this latest research, VeriSign also
revealed late last year that 84 per cent of Australians had received
some form of online threat during 2008 via email from impostor banks or
other institutions requesting money transfers, and despite the large
percentage who reported receiving phishing messages, a “surprising 97
per cent of respondents still believed they were at low risk from
online security threats.”
Dacal says it’s always important for consumers
to check whether or not a site is genuine and take measures to protect
personal details online, “whether that be for a tax return, shopping
online or checking your bank balance.”
Here, too, is what VeriSign recommends we Australians should keep our
eyes open for as we try to evade these latest phishing scams:
• https:// The “s” in https:// means the site is encrypted, so the
information you enter is secured. While some phishing sites do have a
secured Web address, many do not. Therefore, site visitors should be
on the lookout for missing security on sites that should have it.
• The padlock icon: To be meaningful this icon must appear in the
actual browser interface and not inside the content of the page itself.
• Trust marks: Simple visual cues in the form of popular logos can
show that a Web site is authenticated, secured, and the company is
reputable.
• Check the Web address: Be suspicious of any site with an unknown
domain that contains the name of a well known site in the latter part
of the Web address.
• Green address bar: This signifies that this site has undergone
extensive identity authentication so that you can be confident it is
the site it claims to be.
In a final word of warning, Dacal says that VeriSign’s research tested
the applicability and understanding of a variety of phishing methods
Australian consumers need to be aware of and found that “sneaky
strategies such as imitation Web sites that try and phish your personal
details have been shown to work across all demographics, particularly
on the age group 45- 54 years.”
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