British Prime Minister Theresa May has used Saturday's terrorist attack to again push for a ban on encryption.

The Department of Human Services has claimed that part of the reason 42 million calls to Centrelink went unanswered in the period from June 2016 to April 2017 could be due to a cyber attack.

Australians are getting increasingly concerned about their privacy due to the new data retention laws, with a 100% increase in VPN software use since the law took effect on 13 April.

Modelling by the CSIRO has shown that new energy generation in Australia is likely to be mainly in wind, solar photovoltaics, storage and gas to meet 2030 emission reduction targets.

Researchers from the British security firm Secarma have predicted that, based on what happened with the WannaCry ransomware, the next NSA exploit to be weaponised could be one named ExplodingCan.

A company that provides a platform for low-code development has released a study on the state of application development in the Asia-Pacific region and the associated challenges.

Media companies and broadcasters are being forced to look what opportunities there are if they are not going to be beaten by new disruptors – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Ooyala believes it may have the answer.

It’s not just Samsung that can boast of 3D NAND, but now the storage powerhouse that is WD and SanDisk, who will launch 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs in Q3 2017.

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