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An expert says cybercrime is soaring, it already costs Australians more than burglary and will only increase as more people use smartphones. Marian Merritt, internet safety advocate with computer security company Norton, said a new global study showed 69 per cent of adults around the world experienced cybercrime in their lifetime, much more than previously [...]

The telco industry is resisting two out of three major reforms designed to reduce confusion, bill shock and poor customer service, the communications regulator says. Telcos claim that the proposed changes are either too complicated, costly or will confuse customers. Consumer groups argue that the industry’s response is "insulting", "laughable" and won’t appease the regulator’s [...]

Households will pay at least $60 – and up to $190 – a month for internet services on the National Broadband Network, data from an internet provider shows. The first retail pricing for services over the $36 billion NBN were released by internet provider Internode on Thursday. Packages start at $59.95 a month for a [...]

Author JK Rowling’s website devoted to fictional wizard Harry Potter will feature a bit of Google magic when it debuts later this year in the United States, according to the internet titan. Rowling’s beloved Potter titles will be available on Google eBooks platform at Pottermore.com and Google Checkout will be the preferred payment system, according [...]

In the face of an outcry over so-called ‘naked’ body scans at airports, US authorities have announced plans for a new scanning system that eliminates ‘passenger-specific images’. Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole said the agency would begin installing new software on its scanners ‘designed to enhance privacy’. The new software ‘will auto-detect items that [...]

Gindalbie Metals plans to raise $209 million by issuing new shares to help fund the development of the Karara iron ore project in Western Australia. Gindalbie said on Tuesday that a revised estimate of the construction cost of the project, at $2.57 billion, required a further $600 million equity contribution funded by equal payments by [...]

Computer hackers have targeted The Sun website with visitors being redirected to a hoax story about Rupert Murdoch’s suicide. The group LulzSec, which has previously targeted companies including Sony, says it carried out the hijack, via messages on Twitter. Internet users trying to access thesun.co.uk were redirected to new-times.co.uk and a story entitled ‘Media mogul’s [...]

A new security hole has opened up in Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world’s hottest tech gadgets to hacker attacks. Flaws in the software running those devices came to light after a German security agency warned that criminals could use them to steal confidential [...]

US President Barack Obama has launched an initiative to develop new manufacturing jobs, in a move that will see more than 500 million dollars invested in advanced technologies. The initiative will team up government, companies and universities and aims to speed the development of a new generation of American-made high-technology products. The program will leverage [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is poised to open a formal antitrust probe into whether internet search giant Google has abused its dominance on the web, The Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper, citing ‘people familiar with the matter,’ said the FTC is preparing to serve Google with civil subpoenas ‘signalling the start of [...]