| Hi John, Fans attending the AFL Grand Final and NRL Grand Final on the weekend generated a combined 5.7 terabytes of data on the Telstra Mobile Network, a whopping 21% more than last year.
Two vulnerabilities in Facebook's "view as" feature — a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else — were exploited by attackers who gained access to the personal information of about 50 million users, among them those of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, the company said on Friday.
Prospective travellers who opt to use Malaysia Airlines can now book flights and pay for them using a chatbot on Facebook Messenger, the company has announced.
Australian tech firm Crowdcomms has confessed that an app it built for the British Conservative Party allowed access to profiles of politicians attending the party's annual conference in Birmingham.
Attacking industrial control system computers is an attack on the computers that control the world around you, be it at a utility, factory, air-con systems and more, and these attacks are rising.
The prediction made by the chief of Launceston-based ISP Launtel that smaller retail service providers selling NBN plans would be in difficulty after October appears to be coming true, with one small provider, MyRepublic, announcing that it would raise its prices from 27 October.
Telstra has refunded $9.3 million to 72,000 customers it misled in relation to its Premium Direct Billing third-party billing service, according to a report the telco has provided to the competition watchdog, the ACCC. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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