The Australian Labor Party has termed "unacceptable" the government's introduction of its encryption bill into Parliament on Thursday, just 10 days after public submissions to the draft ended and with no response released to stakeholders.

The ALP is extremely good at brinkmanship – waiting until the very last moment and then bending over backwards to comply with the demands of the government of the day. It’s high time for Labor to show some spine and reject the encryption bill, says Sam Varghese.

The Australian flagship Apple Store in Sydney's CBD is one of the very first places in the world to get the new iPhones, and as per usual, iTWire was there to capture it all on video.

The final rules devised by ACMA to improve the experience of consumers who move over to the NBN, and carrying penalties of up to $10 million for offending service providers, take effect from today.

Developers at Google discussed technical means to counter the Trump administration January 2017 travel bans, but the company denied that any of the plans were implemented.

Security software testing company NSS Labs has filed an anti-trust suit against security firms Symantec, CrowdStrike, ESET and the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation, claiming that they had conspired to prevent independent testing of their products.

The use of remote administration tools to monitor, control and maintain industrial control systems is adding to their attack surface, while simultaneously increasing the ability of attackers to mask malicious activity and increase the difficulty of attribution, a study claims.

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