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The Australian government said on Wednesday it planned to introduce laws that would empower the central bank to regulate digital wallet providers including Apple Pay and Alphabet's Google Pay. Apple Pay, Google Pay and China's WeChat Pay, which have grown rapidly in recent years, are not currently designated as payment systems, putting them outside Australia's financial regulatory system...

Tech companies Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Cloudflare (NET) have come forward and admitted to being the targets of denial-of-service (DoS) cyberattacks. SentinelOne Advisor Morgan Wright joins Yahoo Finance Live to detail the phishing tactics modern hackers are adapting in these cyberattacks targeting bigger and bigger companies' platforms and servers. "What is clear is that whoever figured this out, this may become part of a tool kit that's used later as they build out bigger malware packages and bigger types of attack platforms," Wright asserts. "This could be part and this was a proof of concept." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live...

A Canadian news industry body on Thursday lent support to some of Google's concerns about a new law that aims to make large internet companies share advertising revenue with news publishers in the country. Alphabet's Google has made a "good faith articulation of legitimate concerns" that the Canadian government should address while finalizing rules to implement the law, said News Media Canada (NMC), which represents Canada's top newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star...

A Canadian news industry body on Thursday lent support to some of Google's concerns about a new law that aims to make large internet companies share advertising revenue with news publishers in the country. Alphabet's Google has made a "good faith articulation of legitimate concerns" that the Canadian government should address while finalizing rules to implement the law, said News Media Canada (NMC), which represents Canada's top newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star...

Google's Pixel Watch 2 brings improvements to its heart rate tracker and battery life that make it one of the best smartwatches around...

The large tech company is readjusting its security protocols and will have wide ramifications across the platform...

Cyber aggression in Israel escalated Wednesday night, as fighting entered a sixth day Thursday and fatalities topped 1,300 on both sides of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Hackers infiltrated Israel’s smart billboards, posting pro-Hamas messages and images, according to cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies  Israelis are receiving threatening texts on their phones and WhatsApp messages from numbers in Yemen and Afghanistan, Check Point said. Opportunists are also sending crypto scams disguised as pro-Israel aid requests...