WikiLeaks founder, publisher and award winning investigative journalist Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuador embassy in London.

After more than a year when it has been stalked by privacy scandals, Google has announced that it will introduce an auto-delete feature for location history and activity data that it collects.

Multinational infrastructure software company Citrix Systems says a breach of its internal network took place six months earlier than it initially announced.

Researchers from Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group claim that attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic servers running on Windows to install a new ransomware variant known as Sodinokibi.

It has been all over the news for the last six months - Apple's lower than expected iPhone sales are reported as being a big problem for the company, but is it really true asks Apple watcher Alex Zaharov-Reutt.

A study of users of Oracle products has found that a majority were planning to reduce the amount they spent with the vendor, with the high cost and features (61%), maintenance and support costs (58%) and Oracle's aggressive sales and tactics (21%) being the reasons advanced for their dissatisfaction.

Australians are not doing enough to secure their connected devices, despite a slew of recent high-profile hacking incidents of smart devices, according to one security company.

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