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As experts push to strengthen Australia's privacy laws, many car makers are gathering data and potentially selling it to third parties.

Telecommunications consumers lodged 14,671 complaints between October and December 2023, an increase of more than 13 per cent compared with the previous quarter.

Psychologists say people with high psychopathic tendencies are able to explore their "true self" when they're not identifiable. 

The CEO of Meta expressed regret and pledged to work to prevent further harm as five tech bosses were grilled at a US Senate child safety hearing.

For the next seven months, Oscar Pearce is hoping to spend about eight hours per day guessing where he is in the world, but from his computer.

Elon Musk has always been a trailblazer but his erratic business antics and Tesla's shrinking margins appear to show the wheels are falling off the well-hyped machine, writes Ian Verrender.

James Gill discovered how to streamline texting between Apple and Android devices during his school holidays, but Apple blocked the workaround. Now the tech giant may face legal action in the US.

Laura Ridout hoped her blueberry farm would put the Scotsburn Hills on the map. Instead, Apple took her farm off it and it turns out she's not alone.

Australian authorities have confirmed that Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov is a member of the Russian hacking syndicate REvil.

The Australian government has imposed sanctions against Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov over his role in the Medibank Private data breach.

When Chris Pyatt found out his small business had been listed as "permanently closed" on Apple Maps, with the pin in the wrong location, he realised he had a costly problem on his hands.

Timor-Leste has the fourth-slowest internet in the world, sitting just in front of Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria — and its young population is fed up.

Optus and the federal government spent hours during last year's unprecedented outage telling the public triple-0 calls from mobiles should work despite mounting evidence to the contrary behind the scenes, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws reveal.

Credential stuffing has long been used as a form of cyber crime, but a recent rise in attacks has affected thousands of Australians. Here's what credential stuffing is, how it works, and how you can protect yourself.

Months after settling a $5 billion privacy lawsuit, Google's Chrome web browser is set to warn users that private browsing does not prevent them from being tracked.

Central Queensland's Deborah McGee and other residents in the region went without a Telstra mobile service for weeks following storms in December, a situation a telecommunications academic says can be helped with domestic roaming.

Some of The Iconic's customers have been caught out by the aftershocks of a "credential stuffing" attack, but a cybersecurity expert says common shortcuts have put shoppers at greater risk without them knowing.

Online retailer The Iconic has failed to provide basic security measures to verify its customers' payment details when placing an order, putting its 2.1 million customers at risk of being defrauded, cybersecurity experts say

The eSafety commissioner says the social media platform's hate-monitoring practices are "jaw-dropping" after it reinstated thousands of banned Australian accounts.

Online retailer The Iconic has vowed to refund customers who have been left out of pocket by thousands of dollars after their accounts were compromised and fraudulent orders were made without their permission.

There are more than 22,000 people in the Riverland Forum that Jesse Norris launched 12 years ago on Facebook, but after moderating the busy page — while doing his best not to be affected by abuse — he's decided to step away.

 The plaintiffs alleged Google's analytics, cookies and apps let it track the activity of users in private browsers or incognito mode. 

The Australian Information Commissioner is inquiring into social media giant TikTok's handling of personal data and allegations it took data without consent.

Probiotic company Yakult Australia is hit by a cyber attack, resulting in 95 gigabytes of data, including sensitive employee data, being published on the dark web, the ABC can confirm.

A shire in Western Australia's Wheatbelt has erected signs warning travellers to ignore GPS directions as they are sending drivers to unsealed, often treacherous roads.