An employee of the Australian Tax Office has published information obtained from the Israeli firm Cellebrite online, detailing ways of breaking into mobile phones.

Google has been paying academics to write papers that could help influence public opinion and policy, with money going to professors at universities ranging from Harvard to the University of California at Berkeley.

The US government has removed Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved software suppliers for two government-wide purchasing contracts that are used to buy technology services.

No matter which side of the debate you are on as far as the national broadband network is concerned, spare a thought for Mitch Fifield. The communications minister has to go out day after day, defending a failing project which he has, in no way, influenced.

The City of Gold Coast's Infor Cloud deployment is about to go live in readiness for the Commonwealth Games in 2018.

Windows Phone 8.1 support has ended, marking the end of an era when it was a want to be mobile OS contender to iOS and Android.

An open-source blockchain framework implementation known as Hyperledger Fabric, hosted by The Linux Foundation, has released version 1.0 for developing blockchain applications, products or solutions.

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