The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has joined the growing throng of calls for Australia to move to electronic voting. And why wouldn’t it? It represents the interests of mostly multinational technology vendors who stand to gain lots while ordinary Australians would be the big losers.

Social engineering — the art of manipulating someone to do something like open and install malware — is the basis of the majority of ransomware and cyber attacks. Telstra has become the latest attack vector and the quality of the fake landing page is unnerving.

Red Hat's annual summit held last week was a smörgåsbord of events that illustrate what the company styles as its philosophy of openness. In the rush to publicise this trait, the company forgot that it is aiding the NSA, the biggest spy outfit in the world, to snoop on others.

Google's retention of telephone metadata in Germany may contravene EU regulations and could even be a criminal offence, a former German federal commissioner for data security has warned.

Melbourne-based payments technology start-up Airwallex has boosted its coffers with US$3 million raised through a pre-series A investment round and will use the funds to strengthen its Melbourne and Chinese development teams and accelerate research and development of its technology.

eSports is growing at a rapid rate with the top four tournaments offering prize money of more than US$213 million. It is an industry that LG supports.

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Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire


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