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Many Australians have apparently reacted to the current financial crisis by abandoning or limiting their use of credit and debit cards and are now using cash as a way to control their spending, according to a study by ATM manufacturer, NCR.

If you thought that the spotty teen hacker working from a back bedroom was an outdated stereotype now that organised cybercrime is big business, think again. It seems the server room is just as likely to be targeted by teens out to top up their pocket money.

Four out of five small businesses in Australia say they’re not ready for the introduction of the new workplace laws, many of which come into effect on 1 July this year.

Supposedly, Australia’s love affair with technology and gadgets stops at the office door, with many of us apparently confused by overly-complicated business software, and wasting up to five hours a week as we battle with our computers at work.

A survey of Australian companies by Compuware has found that 75.5% of IT budgets are being spent just "keeping the lights on" or maintaining existing IT applications, with only 24.5% spent on new IT initiatives.

The latest forecasts on the growth of mobile broadband predict revenues of $137 billion globally by 2014 but, despite that, operators will have to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than actual revenue growth.

Cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years, with many organisations experiencing tangible losses as a result of the attacks.

A new report released today warns that the state of the global financial services industry, in the current world economic downturn, could increase the risk of potential internal and external fraud attempts in the world’s banks.

Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Many of Australia’s largest businesses and organisations have a ‘near enough is good enough’ attitude when it comes to addressing business risk, according to the findings of a research report just released.

If you’re lucky enough to be offered a job in the Australian ICT sector at the moment the salary you might be offered is more than likely to be somewhat less than you would have got before the economic downturn hit us, that is unless the job’s in Adelaide or Sydney.

A majority – 68 percent to be precise – of 2,600 companies in North America are under-spending on information security relative to the financial risks and losses they are experiencing, according to the latest benchmark research report of the IT Policy Compliance Group (IT PCG).