A recent study from Google and IPSOS Research found that despite only being in the market a short time, 37 percent of Australians own a smartphone, and the number is expected to grow by more than 50 percent by the end of 2011

A recent study from AVG looked at online and mobile consumer behaviour across the 5 mainland capital cities in Australia to see what locations are most likely to be victimized by online fraud or data loss.

Having separately announced in May that they will offer digital wallets that store credit card information for mobile payments, both Google and Visa are competing for consumers.

Many cyber attackers are changing their tactics from point-of-sale manipulation to focus solely on ecommerce, according to CIO magazine.