Independent EFTPOS institution Tyro Payments claims Australian banks are holding back business and the economy because they won’t grant loans to small and medium-sized businesses unless owners put up their houses as collateral.

Hundreds of thousands of printers were “pwnd” last week to show owners how insecure they are and that some can join botnets to assist in DDoS attacks.

A massive 10,613 sites on the dark web have been taken down by a group affiliated with Anonymous. It claims that child pornography comprised more than half the data stored in the websites, along with details of nearly 381,000 users.

A distributed denial of service attack on Dynamic Network Services, otherwise known as Dyn, in October 2016, led to the company losing a considerable amount of business, according to data from the security services company BitSight.

Wondering why you’re too fat and can’t stick to a diet? After conducting an online assessment program, the slim scientists at the CSIRO reckon it is probably because you’re thinking too much and stressed out.

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