As Australia expands the world's first national medical record system open to third-party developers, data privacy concerns are a worry for over 50% of Aussies. This leaves opportunity for brands to bolster consumer confidence and settle people's fears by ensuring they prioritise data privacy.

In 2017, Aussies experienced the greatest percentage of ransomware attacks in the country’s history, with a record number of people and businesses ponying up to regain access to their data. As criminals become more sophisticated, tech needs to respond to ongoing security woes.

State-sponsored hacks and major corporate breaches have pushed online security into the spotlight. In response, Google has unveiled Advanced Protection, enabling high-risk users to safeguard their accounts against targeted attacks. But can it get the average person to take cyber-security seriously?

In the 97th episode of podcast Reply All, producer Phia Bennin sought to find out what kind of person gets phished, setting a hacker on her tech-savvy coworkers to see which of them would fall a scam. While it highlighted the risks everyone faces online, do people care enough to act on cyber security?