The Australian Cyber Security Centre has concluded that a foreign intelligence agency was the likely culprit behind a breach of the Bureau of Meteorology's networks last year. [ + ]

Location analytics company Esri has invited its global start-up program manager to Australia to help mentor local start-ups, and its smart transport specialist to discuss using big data to transform transport network planning. [ + ]

Research has revealed that constant security warnings may cause people to ignore online safety, because they become fatigued by hearing about it so often. [ + ]

Google's new Pixel smartphone — the first to be developed entirely in-house by the company — aims to take on Samsung in the high-end Android device segment. [ + ]

ACCC Chairman Rod Sims has called on telecom operators to have their say as part of the regulator's market study into the telecommunications regulatory environment. [ + ]

The iPhone 7 scored lowest for both talk time and mobile browsing time during independent battery life tests of the latest crop of smartphones. [ + ]

After spending $800m on Optus's hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network assets, nbn has decided to abandon the technology in favour of fibre to the distribution point. [ + ]

With more frequent extreme temperature instances predicted for Australia, weather forecasts could offer data centre operators an effective way to ensure they avoid damage and downtime when faced with volatile climatic events. [ + ]

Yahoo's belated disclosure of the theft of private data on at least 500m users in 2014 is a prime example of why New Zealand needs breach notification regulation, the nation's privacy commissioner has argued. [ + ]

Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs has restored his website after it was forced offline for several days by a massive 620 Gbps DDoS attack.

At the International Privacy, Security & Trust Conference in Auckland later this year, experts will address the security implications of emerging new technologies such as autonomous vehicles and the IoT. [ + ]

Yahoo fell victim to what the company believes was a state-sponsored data breach in 2014, with the attackers stealing the personal information of at least 500m customers — including unencrypted security questions and answers. [ + ]

The Obama administration has developed a new policy aimed at promoting the safe commercial introduction of autonomous vehicles in the US. [ + ]

Attackers worldwide compromised over 550 million personal records through 974 data breaches during the first half of the year, research from Gemalto indicates. [ + ]

For the increasingly hyper-connected energy sector, hacking one piece of industrial equipment can now be the same as attacking one million. [ + ]