Afterpay, Apple Pay and Google Pay are driving the adoption of new digital payment services according to a new report that shows an increasing proportion of Australians are utilising new digital payment methods such as buy-now-pay-later services, contactless mobile payments and wearable payment devices

As expected, Dr Ian Oppermann has been elected President of the Australian Computer Society and has pledged reconciliation within the troubled organisation. He will serve until the end of 2021 and replaces former President Yohan Ramasundara, who as Immediate Past President remains on the National Committee.

A European body representing 42 electric transmission system operators in 35 countries recently experienced a compromise of its office network, the security firm Dragos says, adding it was an IT network that was infiltrated.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has forecast a big drop in its smartphone shipments for 2020, with an internal document saying it expected a hit of about 20% in what would be its first year-on-year decline.

NBN Co has warned that scammers are increasing their efforts to use the NBN brand to steal people’s personal or financial details, with over 180,000 people contacting the builder of the National Broadband Network to report a scam over the six months to December 2019.

Microsoft appears to have bungled the release of details of flaws in its operating systems and application software this month, with details of a wormable flaw in the SMB protocol leaking online even though the company did not release a fix for it as part of its normal monthly patch Tuesday.

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