The first known Australian casualty of the Drupal vulnerabilities which came to light recently has been revealed, with Family Planning NSW announcing that its website had been compromised and the personal information of about 8000 clients exposed.

European researchers have been forced to advance the announcement of what they claim are vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption technologies used in email after the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung carried a report about their research which had been originally embargoed for release early Wednesday morning Australian time.

Australian-owned and operated financial services IT provider TAS is partnering with Alibaba Cloud — the cloud computing arm of Chinese Internet and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group — to offer a managed secure cloud system in the Australian market.

A new robot car, enabled with LiDAR, can see wavelengths beyond human senses to drive in foggy, snowy and bad weather conditions, with the evolving technology representing "a big step towards a safe automated vehicle".

The Federal Government is to establish the first Australian Space Agency, aimed at helping businesses win a greater share of the multi-billion dollar global space market and underpinning a new industry with the potential to create 20,000 jobs.

Twenty years after BPAY was launched in Australia around 60% of Aussies now pay their bills using the service, according to the payments company which says that on average people pay five or six bills a month.

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