Introduction

The fall out from last week's sibr attack on teler communications giant optus is continuing. The anonymous online account that claims to be behind the hack unexpectedly apologized yesterday. And they've also promised not to release the data. Cevon, there is some scepticism though from sibe security experts. They wonder whether the hackers will just simply give up and say it would happen again unless there was a ransom paid of one point five million dollars by friday. A twist in the optus hack tail, japan's shinzo arbe farewells ukrane's sham vote closes, and how to skip those annoying meetings.