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Customers of Australia’s major banks are being urged to manually update their mobile wallets in order to avoid a looming technical issue that may cause payments chaos on New Year’s eve.

Eftpos customers warned of potential New Year’s Eve chaos

Cardholders at Australia’s major banks are being urged to manually update their mobile wallets.

  • David Swan

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Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy.

Xero outage hits small businesses nationally

The outage caused chaos for thousands of Australian businesses and their accounting teams.

  • David Swan
A Woolworths checkout in Sydney shows a dead screen during the CrowdStrike outage.

Massive outage shows the vulnerability of the global tech ecosystem

The CrowdStrike episode is chilling because it highlights how a single, flawed update from a trusted source can cause large parts of the global system to fail.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
MediSecure was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year.

Cyberattack on prescription service MediSecure affects 13 million Australians

Personal and health data from the hack is up for sale on the dark web.

  • Angus Dalton
IPH Ltd is under a trading halt after reporting a “cyber incident” to the ASX.

How this small non-profit group beat a malicious cyberattack

Hackers attempted to commit credit card fraud against UN Women Australia, but its chief executive says the group managed to beat the attackers with the help of its technology partners.

  • David Swan
The privacy watchdog has sued Medibank over its cyber hack.

Medibank on the hook for trillions but there’s more at stake than money

The $21.5 trillion in fines that the health insurer faces is an uncomfortable reminder to corporate Australia that it’s not just the cyber criminals that are now on the hook.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Commissioner Carly Kind wants a cautionary approach to the rollout of artificial intelligence.

Put the brakes on AI rollout, new privacy commissioner says

Commissioner Carly Kind is concerned about the speed at which the fast-evolving technology is being used.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
The private information of thousands of Hungry Jack’s workers were exposed in an accidental data leak.

Personal data of ‘thousands’ of Hungry Jack’s staff exposed in internal leak

The burger chain admits that 198 employees received an email attachment containing the personal data of possibly thousands of staff.

  • Jessica Yun
Australias eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant

The world’s biggest tech firms are enabling the most nauseating crimes imaginable

The big internet companies are not even doing “the bare minimum” to protect our societies from the mass-scale paedophilia and terrorist incitement flourishing on their sites.

  • Peter Hartcher
Tangerine co-founders Andrew and Richard Branson.

Internet provider Tangerine suffers cyberattack

“No one is more disappointed than me,” Tangerine’s CEO said after more than 200,000 customers are caught up in a data breach.

  • David Swan and Sumeyya Ilanbey

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