Father and son have a Plymouth Barracuda

The U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant says suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries.

A round of free trade talks between the European Union and Australia has been postponed by one following a dispute over the Australian government's decision to cancel a multibillion-euro French submarine deal.