Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is investing in a security company known as Kasada which has taken money from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, is calling for former Independent senator Nick Xenophon to enter his name on Australia's foreign influence register because he is offering legal advice to Chinese firm Huawei.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says one of its committees has been tasked with inquiring into the possibility of the country adopting a Magnitsky-style global human rights sanctions regime. This would be a copy of what the US has done.
Detectives from the NSW Police Force Cyber Crime squad have charged a second man in connection with the data breach at property valuation firm Landmark White.
Online retailer Kogan has been found in the Federal Court to have breached the Australian Consumer Law by making false and misleading representations about a tax time sales promotion.
Social media company Twitter says it believes miscreants, who were behind a recent scam that attacked several well-known accounts, had targeted its employees through a social engineering scheme and manipulated them into carrying out certain actions and leaking confidential information.
Indian smartphone shipments fell by 48% in the second quarter of the year, the analyst firm Canalys says, adding that the drop, to 17.3 million units, came as the country faced a shutdown of its economy until May due to the coronavirus pandemic.
An Internet outage in the US on Friday, which was blamed on Iran by a Twitter account known as AS-Source News that has now been deleted, was due to a configuration error on Friday made by Cloudflare staff, the company's chief executive Matthew Prince has acknowledged.
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