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Australia's biggest telcos must be handed larger fine to stem a growing tide of failures by the likes of Telstra, a leading advocate says.

I still remember the first time I got a mobile phone like it was yesterday. It was my 13th birthday, and I welcomed my teenage years by playing snake for like three hours and texting my friends things like “r U Gonna Go milkbar after skool 2moz?” – an endeavour…

After data breaches at Medibank and Optus, the Queensland government decides to delay digital licence trial in Townsville until 2023.

Millions of people having their personal lives exposed in hacks of Optus and Medibank will drive “permanent change” in cyber crime.

First Optus, now Medibank; in less than two months we’ve experienced two of the largest personal data breaches in Australia’s history. In both cases the hackers attempted, and failed, to extort a ransom in exchange for not releasing personal data.

Officials drawn from AFP and the Australian Signals Directorate to form ‘joint standing operation’ against cybercriminal syndicates

Much of the personal data stolen from Medibank and Optus isn't even considered private anymore. It's a sign of how bad things are.

On October 13 one of Australia’s largest medical insurers, Medibank, announced it had suffered a cyberattack – one which has resulted in the breached personal details of 9.7 million customers in Australia. We now know the hackers, who are almost certainly Russian, demanded a ransom of US$9.7 million (about A$15…

Queenslanders will now have to give their licence and card numbers when dealing with banks and telcos, but some have questioned whether the protocol really amounts to a two-factor authentication system.

Unlike other states and territories, NSW government agencies will legally be required to report customer data breaches like cyber attacks, if a new bill is passed through parliament.

Queensland has tightened the rules for using a state driver's licence for identification purposes following the Optus data breach in September.