About 135 million Aadhaar numbers and 100 million bank account numbers could have leaked from official portals that handle government pension and rural employment in India.

Some Google Docs users, mainly in the US, were victims of a massive phishing attack that potentially gave attackers access to their email, address book, calendar, and docs.

How can one believe that Microsoft is really serious about competing with Google's Chromebooks in the education and home sectors when it launches a competitor that costs four times the amount?

Fairfax Media editorial director Sean Aylmer has threatened journalists with repercussions for going on an unauthorised seven-day strike after Wednesday's announcement that a quarter of the journalistic staff would be cut to effect savings of $30 million.

A News Corporation company has plans to create a database of sites that are deemed unsuitable for online advertisers so that companies can avoid placing ads on such sites.

Curtin University is deploying an Internet of things (IoT) solution from Hitachi as part of its “smart university” plans to enhance the student experience, improve classroom learning and to attract more industry to collaborate on data-driven research.

New research from Trend Micro concludes that the plethora of industrial robots poses a real enhanced security threat – not only in subtly sabotaging work processes and products but in the possibility of ransomware attacks and physical harm to humans.

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