In a new report from EFTPOS payments provider Tyro, Australians are forecast to make 1.5 billion transactions between now and the end of the January post-Christmas sales – peaking at an estimated 85,000 transactions per minute - and amounting to a six week $100 billion spending spree.

Almost 9 out of 10 Australian adults are now online, fuelling a growing appetite for digital content and driving significant changes across the communications sector, according to a new report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Australian small business owners are an entrepreneurial lot, with many choosing to operate more than one business at a time and working so hard they probably won’t take public holidays or even a Christmas break this year.

Digitisation of office functions has sped up life for many people in metropolitan cities and removed many a headache in the process. Given that, it is passing strange that the National Australia Bank, one of the big four in the country, takes an interminable amount of time to allow one to move away from its embrace, according to Sam Varghese.

Attackers with local administrator rights can harvest encrypted service credentials to achieve lateral movement and full domain compromise on Windows endpoints.

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