SMS scammers pretending to be banks, government services and other companies will be crippled by a new SMS ID register.
Ryan Bourke
The Prime Minister dashed Elon Musk’s furious criticism of Australia’s world-first social media age ban, which is set to come into effect in the next 12 months.
Jessica Wang
The founder of an Australian news channel run almost entirely by teenagers has hit back at Labor’s social media ban, after the contentious laws passed parliament earlier this week.
Liam Beatty
New research has revealed most Aussie banks are failing to fully protect customers from email and phishing scams.
Emma Kirk
Sydney’s blackouts made life a royal pain for thousands of Aussies on Tuesday, including a TikTok star shopping at Woolies for ‘funday sweets’.
Duncan Evans
An inquiry probing the proposed social media age limit said platforms should be explicitly barred from using formal ID to verify a user’s age
Police are racing to identify Aussie romance scam victims following a raid at an overseas scam centre that resulted in the arrest of 250 alleged cyber criminals.
Australian workers are falling for bogus phishing attacks at almost twice the global rate, concerning research shows.
Blair Jackson
Australia Post says consumers need to be on guard for scams as Black Friday sales ramp up and criminals target unsuspecting victims.
The industry group was criticised for ignoring the wishes of greiving parents who had lost their children to suicide as a result of social media bullying.
Proposed laws aimed at targeting misinformation and disinformation proliferating social media have been culled after it failed to garner support.
The chief executive of a supermarket giant has admitted she is “worried” about a US company as more and more Aussies hunt for better prices.
An Aussie model claims an Uber driver failed to deliver her belongings and has taken to social media to ask for help.
A popular digital platform mostly used by young Australians may be able to dodge proposed age restrictions.
Jessica Wang and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
A popular digital platform mostly used by young Australians may be able to dodge proposed age restrictions, but a school principal says it needs to be included.
The number of complaints made to the telcos which bounce back unsolved has spiked, with one state copping the brunt of the issues.
All state and territory leaders have agreed to Anthony Albanese’s plan to ban social media for children under the age of 16 in a world first.
The nationwide Optus network outage in 2023 has cost the telco $12 million in fines for breaching triple zero rules, the industry regulator has announced.
Abe Maddison
Hundreds of thousands of Australians who had their data stolen can breathe a sigh of relief.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Former prime minister and current US ambassador Kevin Rudd has scrambled to scrub disparaging remarks he made about Donald Trump.
Outstation health services are without communications and lives are at risk in remote NT areas, a health chief has claimed, after a week-long network shutdown.
Shoppers have been warned to be alert for scams ahead of the annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
A homegrown tech unicorn has reached a huge milestone evaluation, making it worth more than Woolworths, Telstra and Coles.
Students aged four to nine will have access to a new course that’s been likened to a “pen licence for the online world”.
