Following Vonage’s failure to curb spam messages and Twilio’s inadequate systems to reduce scams, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has flagged another company, this time, Australian ticketing firm Ticketek, for sending around misleading 98,000 texts and emails in 2022, and has been fined $515,040 for breaching rules.



The value of QR code payments in the transportation market will skyrocket by 176% over the next five years, with China, India, and Malaysia named as market leaders, according to research firm Juniper Research.

Australian Payments Plus (AP) has announced that its digital identity solution ConnectID is now available, marking an important step in helping "everyone in Australia to protect themselves from fraud and identity theft".

Cybersecurity vendor Bitdefender has released findings on Israel-Gaza ‘war scams’ claiming its Antispam Lab started seeing email scam campaigns for disaster relief and help for refugees.

The US has tightened its restrictions on exports of semiconductors and equipment associated with them to China.

Google appears to have begun warning YouTube users who have ad blockers in their browsers when they try to access videos on the site.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire