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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up at London's Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, moves to clarify his offer to be extradited to the United States following alleged whistleblower Chelsea Manning's sentence being commuted.
Topics: security-intelligence, internet-culture, hacking, england, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declares cyber security "the new frontier of warfare" and espionage, while announcing new measures to protect Australian democracy from foreign interference.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, information-and-communication, hacking, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's political parties are being urged to steel themselves against potential foreign cyber attacks in the wake of the US election, with Malcolm Turnbull summoning party chiefs for a security briefing in Canberra.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, information-and-communication, hacking, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to author Irina Borogan about suggestions Russia may try to influence the upcoming election in Germany.
Topics: world-politics, hacking, government-and-politics, elections, russian-federation, germany
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| UpdatedAlmost a third of all people to report having their identity stolen last year are over the age of 55, according to figures from the Federal Government's Scamwatch website.
Topics: hacking, telecommunications, industry, business-economics-and-finance, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedIt started off with a series of suspicious emails and ended in a catastrophic con that saw scammers gain access to union officials' phones, private social media accounts and even their bank accounts.
Topics: hacking, telecommunications, industry, business-economics-and-finance, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, nsw
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| UpdatedMore than 3,000 government-linked email accounts have been compromised as part of what is believed to be the largest hacking attack ever — but what does that actually mean? And has your account been affected?
Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedPrivate email accounts belonging to high-profile politicians and senior Defence officials are among the 1 billion victims of the massive Yahoo data breach. Who were the hackers and how serious was the attack?
Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThousands of Australian government officials, including high-profile politicians, senior Defence officials and ambassadors posted overseas, are among the 1 billion victims of the Yahoo data breach, according a secret dataset obtained by the ABC.
Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump has blasted reporters at his first official press conference as President-elect, and has suggested Russia was likely to have been involved in hacking during the US election.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, hacking, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump has spoken out about allegations that Russia hacked US organisations during the election to derail the Clinton campaign, saying he thinks 'it was Russia'.
Topics: hacking, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedThe website of Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is briefly targeted by a group of hackers, and replaced with an appeal to "stop killing people in Syria".
Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, state-parliament, unrest-conflict-and-war, melbourne-3000, vic, syrian-arab-republic, tunisia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump says his son-in-law Jared Kushner will be a "tremendous asset" to his White House team after naming the businessman as a senior adviser who will be focussed on the Middle East and trade.
Topics: us-elections, security-intelligence, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states
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| UpdatedAllegations that Russia tried to influence the US election in favour of Donald Trump amount to a witch-hunt, the Kremlin says, echoing a phrase used by the US President-elect to dismiss the allegations.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, hacking, united-states, russian-federation
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A US security report released last week has implicated WikiLeaks in the cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the US election — a claim the group's founder, Julian Assange, denies.
Topics: computers-and-technology, hacking, us-elections, united-states, russian-federation
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Donald Trump's chief of staff says the US President-elect acknowledges "entities in Russia" were engaged in cyber attacks designed to disrupt the 2016 presidential election and "actions may be taken" in response.
Topics: us-elections, computers-and-technology, hacking, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump nominates Dan Coats, a politician turned lobbyist, as the person he wants as the new national intelligence director.
Topics: us-elections, security-intelligence, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, russian-federation
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Barack Obama has sent a message to his political opponents and the media in the wake of allegations that Russia meddled in the US election, reminding them that they are 'on the same team'.
Topics: hacking, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump renews his call for warmer US relations with Russia saying only "stupid people or fools" would oppose the idea, a day after intelligence leaders declared Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
Topics: world-politics, hacking, computers-and-technology, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedThe FBI releases 100 pages of heavily censored documents relating to its agreement with an unidentified vendor to hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, but hidden the identity of those paid to perform the work.
Topics: science-and-technology, hacking, law-crime-and-justice, crime, internet-technology, courts-and-trials, united-states
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President-elect Donald Trump says that claims that Russian cyber attacks affected the outcome of the US election are an attempt to discredit his victory.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President-elect Donald Trump says the presidential election result was "absolutely" not influenced by cyber attacks, after intelligence agencies briefed him on their conclusion that Russia sought to intervene in the campaign.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, china, russian-federation
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| UpdatedUS Vice-President Joe Biden tells Donald Trump to "be an adult" in regard to his attacks on the US intelligence community, as officials prepare to make their most persuasive case yet to the President-elect.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states
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The United States' top spy chief says Russia used a number of tactics including hacking and fake news to influence the recent presidential election.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, world-politics, hacking, security-intelligence, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe top US intelligence official tells Congress he is "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats in the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent scepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved.
Topics: us-elections, hacking, forms-of-government, crime, united-states, russian-federation