| Hi John,
The prospect of Ecuador expelling WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange from its London embassy after its elections are decided appears to have played a role in the organisation deciding to dump Vault 7, a massive trove of CIA documents, overnight.
The CIA has increased the risk of proliferation of its weaponised malware by making the entire collection unclassified, according to WikiLeaks.
The CIA does not only depend on its in-house hackers to craft exploits for use in its spying activities. It also borrows code from malware that is in the wild, judging by the Vault 7 dump by WikiLeaks overnight.
Wage inequality compared to male colleagues, workplace gender bias and a shortage of female role models are among the main barriers faced by women working in the technology field, according to a new survey by global technology association ISACA.
Consumers buying concert tickets from ticket reseller websites are often over-paying and run the risk of having their tickets cancelled by venues and being hit by significant fines, according to consumer activist group Choice.
ASX-listed fintech company Peppermint Innovation has been granted approval to run a pilot of its mobile payments technology in the Philippines by the central bank of that country.
The New Zealand video and computer games industry generated NZ$424 million in revenue in 2016, a 7% increase on 2015 sales. Overall, it had a total of $125 million in retail sales, with an additional $299 million in digital and mobile sales. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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