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Almost everyone has come across a scam and this year, Scams Awareness Week (26-30 August) is encouraging Australians to share their story to help stop scams.

Finishing your university with flying colors is surely a wholesome experience. After four years of hard work and dedication, toiling study nights, and hectic assignments, graduation is the best fruit one can get.

Finishing your university with flying colors is surely a wholesome experience. After four years of hard work and dedication, toiling study nights, and hectic assignments, graduation is the best fruit one can get.

Access to the network of document storage and records lifecycle solutions provider ZircoDATA was sold on the Exploit forum in January about a fortnight before the company's data was encrypted by the Black Basta ransomware group.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) has announced new Omni Channel technology advances set to elevate retail operations and customer experiences across several key areas; Point of Sale, Order Management, Customer Service & Engagement and Store Inventory & Fulfillment.

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.

Microsoft has issued a second post about the attack on its systems by an alleged Russian actor, revealing that the same actor also attacked a number of other organisations, one of which was HPE.

GUEST OPINION: 2023 saw a whirlwind of challenges – both old and new – but we also realised many opportunities to become more secure and stay ahead of evolving information security threats. As expected, it was another challenging year for information security as organisations continued looking for ways to stay ahead of hackers. We saw an increasing amount and complexity of phishing attacks overall, driven by a major trend throughout the year making a significant impact: AI-driven phishing. Phishing remains the most prevalent attack method due to its relatively low cost and high success rate, and the implementation of AI now only furthers this problem.

GUEST OPINION: Cybercriminals tend to follow the path of least risk and resistance with Application Programming Interface (API) security creating a window of opportunity for a cyber attack with a low barrier to entry. It’s a problem that has existed for years and is currently spiralling out of control.

The Meta family of apps—Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger—request the most data from smartphone users, according to research from data centre company TRG Datacenters.

GUEST OPINION: For years, talent acquisition has been a priority and most competitive organisations understand the value of a good talent acquisition strategy. What we are increasingly seeing when we work with talent acquisition teams is that while companies have shifted to hybrid and remote work, this new way of working is not always best represented in existing strategies. In a digitally transformed world, the focus on trust and results has become far more important than it was when employees simply had to clock in and clock out of offices, under the watchful eyes of managers.

GUEST OPINION: For years, talent acquisition has been a priority and most competitive organisations understand the value of a good talent acquisition strategy. What we are increasingly seeing when we work with talent acquisition teams is that while companies have shifted to hybrid and remote work, this new way of working is not always best represented in existing strategies. In a digitally transformed world, the focus on trust and results has become far more important than it was when employees simply had to clock in and clock out of offices, under the watchful eyes of managers.

GUEST RESEARCH:   LinkedIn has today released marketing research and new product announcements which shows how the industry is ready to embrace AI.

Changes in the terms of service for the communications platform Zoom, made in March 2023, were due to an internal process failure that would be fixed, the founder and chief executive of Zoom, Eric Yuan, has said.

A week or so after Australia substantially increased the US military presence in the country, a detailed study claims that American tech firms will play a critical role in addressing Australia’s future tech workforce demand, particularly for experienced workers.

Microsoft has announced a two-pronged AI skills initiative.

Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer OPPO together with global partners Qualcomm Technologies, GSMA 5G IN, Amazon Web Services and LinkedIn, has announced the launch of the 2023 OPPO Inspiration Challenge on the World Smile Day.

Retention marketing platform operator Yotpo has appointed Ben Eatwell to the role of APAC marketing director.

Professional networking site LinkedIn has reinstated British security guru Kevin Beaumont's account, after kicking him off the platform for unspecified reasons.

Telstra has reported a data breach, with the names and addresses of 30,000 current and former staff being posted online.