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Alphabet features self-driving garbage cans, apartment noise monitors in Toronto smart city project
NBN Co is skipping "thousands" of premises a month
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Negative interest rates threaten to choke bank IT systems
Twitter tightens bans on political ads and causes
crime
Telstra calls in police after 26 exchanges broken into
Across Sydney.
Jul 30 2019 9:49AM
Wollongong man charged with 'malicious' telco cable damage
Allegedly disabled infrastructure to commit fraudulent purchases.
Jul 4 2019 10:13AM
Tabcorp uses data to spot suspicious gamblers and appease regulators
Finding misuse and criminal patterns faster.
Feb 25 2019 12:00PM
NSW Police charge couple over cryptocurrency conversion
Allege $300k in fiat converted and sent offshore.
Sep 27 2018 9:32PM
ASIC skills up on data exfiltration via wi-fi
'Emerging' vector for market crime.
Oct 26 2017 12:07PM
Bikies hack key fobs to steal cars
Rash of rustled Jeep Wranglers.
Jun 1 2017 9:31AM
Optus topples $4m attempted murder compo case
Overturns damages in 15-year-old suit.
Feb 21 2017 6:42AM
US charges three Chinese nationals over law firm hacks
Allegedly used corporate data for insider trading.
Dec 28 2016 9:23AM
Thousands of UK online bank accounts raided
Tesco Bank freezes online transactions.
Nov 8 2016 6:43AM
Brandis wants two-year jail sentence for re-identifying govt data
Researchers not automatically exempt.
Oct 12 2016 5:07PM
Govt will make it a crime to re-identify anonymised data
Changes to Privacy Act coming.
Sep 28 2016 5:33PM
HEIST attack breaches HTTPS in the browser
Can tap into HTTPS comms without MITM position.
Aug 5 2016 5:16AM
Chinese hacker jailed over attempt to steal defence blueprints
Corporate espionage targeted fighter jet plans.
Jul 14 2016 10:05AM
Alleged celebrity iCloud hacker to plead guilty
Faces up to five years for 2014 breaches.
Jul 5 2016 11:37AM
Malaysian immigration officials fired for sabotaging passport system
Outages allowed people to enter country undetected.
Jun 1 2016 2:00PM
Journalist handed two-year sentence for role in hack
Will fight conviction and sentence.
Apr 14 2016 11:07AM
NSW pawnbrokers forced to share device MAC addresses
Police crack down on PC, smartphone theft.
Jan 21 2016 11:34AM
Online fraudsters top Aussie cybercrime blacklist
Authorities field 39,000 complaints in a year.
Jan 18 2016 12:06PM
Cops arrest suspected DDoS extortion gang leader
Australian police help flush out alleged DD4BC boss.
Jan 13 2016 11:30AM
UK privacy watchdog wants to be able to send data thieves to prison
Resumes campaign for new powers.
Jan 12 2016 6:58AM
