Year 11 students from a Catholic high school have been expelled or have left voluntarily after it was revealed they had been hacking into one of the school’s IT systems to access sensitive information. At least four students from Corpus Christi College in Perth’s south gained access to an ITContinue Reading
Australian banks are hampered by muddled troves of data in their pursuit of protecting customers from scams, a leading Australian and New Zealand tech company says. Atomic.io has set up in-app prompts for the major New Zealand banks, in the entrepreneurship-rich country. Australian banks are trying to get away fromContinue Reading
A TikTok ban is “highly likely” to pass the United States congress before the year is done, sparking “critical” warnings Australia not be left behind. The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday voted unanimously 50-0 to advance a Bill, that, if passed, would prohibit TikTok from US app storesContinue Reading
Australian bargain-hunters are being warned to take care when splashing their cash online, with a surge in the number of dodgy shops swiping credit card details and personal information. A sweep by a top online security firm has uncovered several thousand fake storefronts for countless iconic retailers, from shoemaker DocContinue Reading
An urgent warning has been issued to users of Apple’s iphones, iPads and MacBooks after the global tech giant discovered “system vulnerabilities” and issued a “zero-day alert”. Tech consultant Shelly Palmer explained to his email subscribers a “zero-day alert” is “geekspeak for system vulnerabilities serious enough to warrant a softwareContinue Reading
Australia’s border force is struggling to contain the flow of drugs into the country as violent drug cartels go to extreme lengths to evade authorities. In a shocking 60 Minutes episode on Sunday night, professional diver Jared Darcey revealed how cartels now smuggle in drugs through ports on the bottomContinue Reading
Former US president Donald Trump allegedly slipped sensitive details about America’s nuclear submarine fleet to an Australian billionaire, reports have claimed. American news channel ABC News reports Mr Trump told cardboard industrialist Anthony Pratt the exact number of nuclear warheads carried by US submarines and how close they could getContinue Reading
Former US president Donald Trump allegedly slipped sensitive details about America’s nuclear submarine fleet to an Australian billionaire, reports have claimed. American news channel ABC News reports Mr Trump told cardboard industrialist Anthony Pratt the exact number of nuclear warheads carried by US submarines and how close they could getContinue Reading
A small-business owner from Queensland recently fell victim to an online scam after purchasing clothing from a fake website that mimicked an Australian fashion retailer – but the scammer gave her a consolation “gift”. After discovering that her size was no longer available in-store, Camille Warfield turned to Google toContinue Reading
Decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has been dubbed an inconsistent witness with “motives to lie” in a scathing assessment by a judge, one of many reasons he lost his defamation case against Nine Newspapers. Justice Anthony Besanko last week ruled some of the imputations put forward across six articles byContinue Reading