British security researcher Marcus Hutchins faces up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to two of the 10 charges facing him in the US - creating banking trojans in the years before he took a career in infosec.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Singapore telecommunications company Singtel have demonstrated the co-ordination of travel of light particles through different fibre paths to control their arrival times and demonstrate that quantum key distribution is possible in this manner.

Tasmanian whisky and gin producer Old Kempton Distillery is applying NFC tags to bottles in order to make life difficult for counterfeiters and to improve communication with customers.

Japanese ICT services giant NEC has appointed company veteran sales and marketing executive Mitsuhiro Murooka as managing director for its Australia and New Zealand business.

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