On the same day that it announced it was shutting down its Google+ social network due to a data breach that it had concealed, Google has said it will be pulling out of bidding for a giant cloud contract with the US Department of Defence.

Security firm RiskIQ has discovered another case of a site breach by the group Magecart, this time against Shopper Approved, a customer rating plugin that is used on thousands of ecommerce sites.

Britons are breaking their mobile devices in ways that we in Australia, people in the US and those around the world are likely doing in the exact same "loo-dicrous" ways.

Sydney-based national ICT and professional services company, FinXL has acquired specialist SAP Consultancy and Services provider, Southern Cross Computing.

The value of annual Bitcoin transactions is expected to slide further from the latter half of next year, according to a new study which reveals that daily cryptocurrency transaction volumes have fallen from an average of around 360,000 per day in late 2017 to 230,000 in September 2018.

Google's phones have finally beaten Apple's 79 straight monthly victories since January 2012 to win the "Mobile Phone Handset of the month" in Roy Morgan's customer satisfaction monthly award.

More than four billion data records were compromised by data breaches worldwide in the first half of 2018, with six social media breaches accounting for more than 56% of the records compromised, according to a new global security report.

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