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Hopefully you protect your computers from cyber attacks. You might have anti-virus software on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. You might avoid using them to visit suspicious websites and carefully protect your various login details.

Google added two innovations: highly efficient processes for crawling webpages to index their text, and a new way of ranking a page’s relevance based on the number and quality of pages that linked to it.

When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move acknowledging the key challenge facing the social media giant.

There is a new phishing email scam that is designed to fool Optus customers.

When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data – Google and Facebook are just two examples. But what if you were the one making the money?

Federighi said Safari would give users the ability to stop social media platforms and other sites like Facebook and Google from tracking them across online.

Telstra will be refunding customers who are not getting the speed they were promised from nbn. The Australian telco admitted that about 1 percent of its nbn customers were promised speeds that could not be achieved realistically at their location.

Mother's Day is on May 14 and Google gets into the mood with the Google Mother's Day Photos app.

An Android flashlight app on Google Play is actually a remotely controlled Trojan that steals users’ banking details, according to new findings. The Flashlight LED Widget is said to mimic legitimate banking apps to dupe users into giving their username and password.

A student from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has created an infrared-based Li-Fi system that can reach speeds 100 times greater than conventional Wi-Fi systems.

Google has launched health condition cards in Australia that will mimic the US version. The cards will accurately answer the common health conditions queries.

Yahoo will be renamed following its $6.5 billion sale to Verizon Communications. The company will be named Altaba Inc following the sale that will include Yahoo turning over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools.

The Australian Government has called for public comment as the government wants to use metadata for civil lawsuits.

InfoArmor chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov confirmed that a group was selling complete copies of Yahoo database on dark websites. He called the seller as Group E.

A mother carrying her baby in a sling has confronted an elderly woman after being declined to take a first-class seat on a train travelling from London to Brighton.

Australia's 152,800 premises will become NBN-ready over the Christmas week.

Optus prepaid customers can now earn extra data by watching ads on their smartphone. On Tuesday, Australia’s second largest telco announced the launch of Optus Xtra, an app that allows Android users to earn extra data or credit for every ad viewed on their smartphone.

Huawei’s CEO-in-rotation Ken Hu said in a forum on Thursday that the company focused on China and Japan market for the 5G technology.

Optus and Huawei have successfully completed 5G trial in Australia as part of the 5G collaboration agreement between Optus' parent company, Singtel, and Huawei.

Google announced on Nov. 8 that it will shut down its Map Maker tool in March 2017.

Android users can now cast spells just like Harry Potter using Google Search.

The UK is revamping its national cyber security strategy that shall cover a four-year period.

The cyber attack blocked access to some of the world's most popular websites.

Telco titan AT&T has announced that it will buy media giant Time Warner for US$85.4B (AU$112.25B) to reshape the evolving media industry.

Vodafone will launch its NBN home broadband service next year as it looks to expand its Internet business.

The Pirate Bay (TPS), ExtraTorrent, Kickass Torrents (KAT) mirror sites and other operational file-sharing sites may be shut down permanently. Anti-piracy outfit Excipio has started charging torrent users hard cash for downloading copyrighted content.

There’s good news for the Apple iOS 10 jailbreak tool as the Pangu team, the Chinese programming team in the iOS community that has developed the Pangu jailbreaking tools, is now focusing a lot on iOS 10.

There are rumours that the popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay (TPB) may also shut down after Kickass Torrents (KAT) got axed. However, reports say that if TPB goes down too along with other torrent sites, the US Library of Congress may become the next piracy haven.

While the original Kickass Torrents (KAT) site may not be back and may never be back, a mysterious KAT link has emerged online and users are surprised to find it’s working properly. Thus, everyone’s favourite torrent site KAT is still searchable. Numerous KAT mirror sites and proxies have come up and US authorities are relentlessly trying to take them down too.