New trojan hits Australian banks

[1] Malware analysts from security vendor, Bitdefender, have discovered new variants of the Dyre family of financial trojans that are attacking Australian banks. [2] According to Bitdefender senior E-...

Experts protest Aussie law banning crypto export

[1] According to the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), a new controversial military technology export control law that threatens to criminalise cryptography research could del...

DDoS attack downs iiNet services

[1] iiNet broadband customers in New South Wales were weekend hit by long service interruptions during the weekend after a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. 2] According to one iiNet ...

Australia shines as worldwide IT market slumps

[1] According to Gartner, despite the slump in worldwide IT spending, Australia is still shining. [2] The research firm’s previous forecast in April was a drop of 1.3 per cent – placing th...

GovHack Melbourne 2015 a success

[1] The GovHack Melbourne 2015 took place last weekend at the CBD office of software company ThoughtWorks and was a success. [2] It was one of a series of events aimed at putting government data to wo...