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. [ + ]

The Bank of England will work to ensure that the new generation of its interbank settlement service supports blockchain technology. [ + ]

The new Optus Smart Shop is designed to provide cloud applications and support services, including set-up and configuration services, for Australian SMBs. [ + ]

China and India are now the world's largest internet markets, accounting for over 1bn users between them, but the sheer size of their populations means they are also among the six countries accounting for the majority of unconnected people. [ + ]

Faced with the ongoing decline of the traditional PC market, vendors will need to consider overhauling their product lines and/or business models to stay afloat or exiting the market completely, according to Gartner. [ + ]

Poor network performance is holding back digital transformation efforts for the majority of Australian businesses and leading to 71 hours in lost productivity per employee per year. [ + ]

Tyro Payments will award up to ten $25,000 grants as part of a plan to crowdsource ideas for SMEs to improve efficiency in their business banking processes. [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank and Barclays have agreed to combine their respective mobile payment apps to enable streamlined cross-border mobile money transfer for their retail customers. [ + ]

HP will pay US$1.05bn to acquire Samsung's printer business as it seeks to disrupt the stagnant US$55bn copier industry. [ + ]

Four of Microsoft's operating systems were responsible for 518 of the 2686 recorded vulnerabilities among the 20 most vulnerable software products in May–July, Flexera Software says. [ + ]

Apple has announced new products including the headphone jack-free iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, the Apple Watch 2 and new wireless headphones to go with its new devices. [ + ]

Direct-to-cloud enables remote users access from anywhere and from any device, while guarding against threats and enforcing user policies. [ + ]