As businesses scramble to assess their vulnerability to cyber threats in the wake of the WannaCrypt ransomware attack, the merits of cyber insurance have come under debate.

Social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter could be forced to offer British young people the right to delete information about them if Theresa May is re-elected prime minister on June 8.

In a matter of days, a new form of ransomware known as WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) has crippled thousands of computers and locked up essential services including hospitals in Britain, FedEx in the US and Telefonica in Spain.

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Very few malware writers make much money and yet they are responsible for perpetuating a global crime machine.

A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools that has struck computers across Europe and Asia is believed to have infected its first Australian business, the federal government says.

A researcher may have found a "kill switch" for the ransomware crippling computers worldwide.

An review of mandatory labelling for irradiated products found there were objections to weakening the code.

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Automatically switching over to 4G mobile broadband when your home line is down, Telstra's Frontier Gateway aims to ensure that the internet is always there when you need it.

Apple's "Other Products" are picking up some of the slack as the market for its most-important product, smartphones, stalls.

​​Uber suffered a setback to its global expansion plans Thursday when a senior court adviser recommended that the ride-hailing company comply with the region's tough transportation rules.

​The man behind South Korea's biggest float in seven years has charted an unlikely path.

In a major shot in the arm for Microsoft's locked down Windows 10 S, all Windows users will soon have easy access to Apple's media software.

Suite of new features coming this year will let you work seamlessly across Windows PC and your mobile phone.

Just two months into its life as a public company, Snap's celebration may already be ending.

For a guy who just lost about a quarter of his net worth, Snap co-founder Evan Spiegel exuded confidence on his first earnings conference call, explaining away the company's shortcomings and even throwing shade at his bigger — and far more successful — social media rival, Facebook.

When it arrived for Wii U in 2014, Mario Kart 8 was arguably the best, most full-featured entry in the beloved series. With the release of this new Deluxe version, there's no longer room for argument.

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Australians are unhappy with their broadband and they're not afraid to speak up, with a 33 per cent leap in complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman as the National Broadband Network works to bed down new technologies.

Do you ever wonder what tomorrow holds? Some people are pretty convinced that the future will be filled with flying cars and jetpacks and robot butlers. But here in the year 2017, I'm not so sure anymore.

​Microsoft has turned up the heat on other technology giants by launching new image and video recognition products which could help it court businesses worried about running ads next to offensive content.