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Former teacher Eleanor Yorke has been barred from teaching after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Former Carey Grammar teacher banned for 35,000 messages to student

The teacher, who repeatedly messaged the student and started a romantic relationship with them, has been barred from the profession for three years.

  • Caroline Schelle

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Teenager Carly Ryan, groomed and murdered by an online predator.

Inside story on the evidence trail that led to Carly’s killer

Garry Francis Newman’s cruel calculus began in suburban Melbourne. It ended with the murder of a 15-year-old girl who never stood a chance against the classic moves of a predator.

  • John Silvester
APRA’s warning comes after various major super funds were targeted in cyberattacks earlier this year.

‘Persistent weaknesses’: Why your super account security might not be up to scratch

Super accounts have long been an attractive target for fraudsters, and on Tuesday, the regulator said funds’ current controls were not always good enough.

  • Clancy Yeates

Pretend friends, real risks. Harming kids is now part of big tech’s business model

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto was “move fast and break things”. But now it’s children and families who are being broken by the relentless thirst for big tech profit.

  • Peter Hartcher
4chan has for years served as an incubator for some of the internet’s most viral memes, as well a range of subcultures.

Notorious internet message board 4chan has been hacked, posts claim

The claim of a hack “looks legit”, according to cybercrime experts.

  • Raphael Satter
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

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