Nearly all Australian consumers are conducting financial transactions online but almost half don’t know how to protect themselves online or simply cant be bothered. Some 94 percent of the 1062 Australian consumers surveyed in ESETs Australian Cyberawareness Index 2019 said they do their online banking, bill payments and online shopping online, while 56 percent conduct transactions from their smartphones. ESET senior research fellow Nick FitzGerald called public Wi-Fi access mechanism a security quagmire”]

