FBI contacted AFP. A teenager is reported to have pleaded guilty to the Children’s Court in Melbourne in relation to allegedly hacking into Apple’s internal systems and downloading 90GB of files.The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons.The reports, carried by Melbourne newspaper The Age, said the Court heard that the Australian Federal Police executed a search warrant on thehome where ...

Big data to track minute land movements. Two researchers from University of Melbourne have devised a software tool that can predict the boundaries of where landslides happen using big data analytics and applied mathematics.The researchers, professors Antoinette Tordesillas and Robin Batterham took data from radar technologies used by mining companies that measure surface movement on slopes.Since the ...

New threat and advice website cyber.gov.au created. The Australian Cyber Security Centre is officially live in its new home at Brindabella Business Park, cheek-by-jowl with the main runway at Canberra Airport, and will lead rapid response to around 16 incidents a day.The move was flagged in July last year with the new facility able to house about 700 people.It shifts the ACSC out of ASIO's opulent lakeside ...

Xiaomi Mi A2 has received a software update that brings the August Android security patch as well as upgrades the rear camera with the ability to record full-HD (1080p) videos at 60fps frame rate. The latest update notably comes just ahead of the availability of the Mi A2 in India. The smartphone that was launched in the country last week with a starting price of Rs. 16,999 will go on sale for the first ...

So far, Intel's biggest NUC news of the year is its Hades Canyon mini-gaming PC with AMD RX Vega graphics. If you don't need something quite so powerful and costly, however, Intel just rolled out some other 8th-generation NUCs. Rather than using 15 watt chips like before, they pack 28 watt 8th-gen Intel CPUs with Iris Plus 655 graphics. That'll let you hook up to three 4K monitors and a TV for entertainment, while ...