Bureau of Meteorology computers breached, ABC reports

Ben Grubb   Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has reportedly had its computer systems breached.

ATO boosts service access via app and voice authentication

Claire Connelly   The ATO has announced it will extend its voice authentication system to its mobile app

Phoenix rises from the ashes to battle Aussie bushfires

Bennett Ring   Firefighters and planners are using an Australian-made bushfire simulator to help them do their job.

Security

Marie's mission to highlight fatal flaws in medical devices

Liam Tung   Marie Moe's heart could be affected by a software flaw or attacked remotely by a hacker, but regulations and restrictions make it difficult to prevent.

Education

Code Club gets $1 million birthday present

Claire Connelly   On the eve of its first birthday, an Australian non-for-profit facilitating digital literacy in school-aged children just received a million present from the federal government and the Telstra Foundation.

Marketing

Big brands brave Periscope stumbles to reach millennials

Jessica Toonkel   Despite the risks, big brands are going ahead with plans to use live-streaming video to attract some of the most finicky consumers.

Security

Retailers hunt for attacks after warning on stealthy malware

Jim Finkle   Retailers hunt for new credut card breaches after warning about malware that evades almost all security software.

FBI probes 'mr.grey' and 1.2b stolen web credentials

Nate Raymond   ​Hacker linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2b credentials, the FBI court documents show.

Hilton payment systems hit by malware

Keegan Thomson   Hilton advises customers to check their bank statements after malware incident.

Business

Algorithms and the death of the recruiter

Beverley Head   ​There are 11.8 million employees in Australia – and the internet is coming to get them.

Business

Food disruptors aim for big bite of startup pie

Beverley Head   Liz Kaelin was tired of eating sad sandwiches at corporate events. A trained dietician, Kaelin knew it was a waste of her day's calories, especially in a city flooded with food options.

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Business

Facebook's Zuckerberg to take two months paternity leave

Yasmeen Abutaleb   A strong statement from one of the busiest and most powerful US executives on the importance of family time.

Security

Kim Dotcom's MegaNet a 'preposterous pipe dream'

Claire Connelly   Eccentric entrepreneur's 'new private internet' is 'brittle, unforgiving and only applicable to very unusual people', security expert says.

Robot farmers, holograms and more receive $8.5m boost

Claire Connelly   Ten Australian companies receive grants from federal fund to commercialise innovative ideas.

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Hackathon

The globe-trotting journey of an Aussie hackathon troupe

Mahesh Sharma   Team Australia took away much more than a prize: friendships and stories to last a lifetime.

Online payment providers duel for supremacy

Mahesh Sharma   The proliferation of smartphones is presenting a once-in-a-generation opportunity to introduce a new paradigm.

'It will get worse before it gets better'

Rachel Olding   Australian government agencies and organisations are increasingly vulnerable to a major cyber attack yet security has not evolved in more than 20 years, according to an international cybercrime expert.

Attacks

Officials picked up 'chatter' on possible France assault, then were blocked by encryption

Henry Chu, Richard A. Serrano, Patrick J. McDonnell   Intelligence officials in Europe and the US were picking up 'chatter' as early as September about a potential Islamic State-related attack on France but lost the ability to track the exchanges when the militants switched to encrypted communications.

Security

Inside NSA's secret school

Susan Svrluga   Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping centre one day: 'Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him.'

Business

Atlassian finally goes public, filing for IPO in the US

Micheal J. de la Merced   Atlassian, the Australian maker of development and collaboration software for companies, has filed to go public in the US.

Start-ups

From AFL star to Big Apple start-up, Swift's Joel MacDonald is kicking goals

Hannah Francis   Two years ago Joel MacDonald was in Melbourne playing in the AFL; now he's kicking goals in New York.