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• Leaked client data ‘relatively benign’ LandMark White says

  LandMark White has claimed that the data inadvertently leaked by the property valuation firm and subsequently posted on a ‘darkweb’ forum is “relatively benign”.

• Government says ‘state actor’ hacked Australian political parties’ networks

  The Australian government believes that an unnamed state actor penetrated the networks of the Liberal, National and Labor parties, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today.

• UK MPs issue damning report Facebook, call for independent ethical oversight

  Facebook and other big tech companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news, the abuse of users' data and the bullying of smaller firms, British lawmakers said on Monday.

• NBN scales-up release of HFC premises after ‘pause’

  NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue says the company will conduct a “significant release of optimised HFC premises over the next six months”.

• Microsoft shoves some Windows 10 testers into next year with early look at 2020 feature upgrade

  The company pointed to a 'longer lead time' for some of the features in the far-off upgrade, which isn't expected to arrive until the spring of 2020.

• Seizing on Huawei's troubles, Samsung bets big on network gear

  Potential customers are taking notice of Samsung's efforts to reinvent itself as a top-tier supplier for 5G wireless networks and bridge a big gap with market leader Huawei and industry heavyweights Ericsson and Nokia.

• Attackers place crypto-jacking apps in Microsoft App Store

  Microsoft has removed eight applications from its app store for Windows that were mining Monero crypto-currency without users' knowledge.

• Mega Microsoft migration: 161,000 employees prepare for Office 365 and Windows 10

  NHS Scotland is bringing together more than 100 different computer systems and 161,000 employees onto Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows 10.

• We’re going to see the emergence of RegTech as an industry: Sri Shivananda

  Raking in over US$15.4 billion in revenue in the last financial year, PayPal exceeded the US$100 bn mark in total payment volumes in 2017. A tête-à-tête with the man spearheading technology at PayPal, Sri Shivananda, SVP and CTO, throws light on the tech innovations that take center stage in the digital payments space, the impact of IoT, and the evolution of RegTech as an industry.

• Java thread sanitizer project proposed once again

  If approved, the OpenJDK effort would help developers spot data race conditions in the HotSpot JVM and the JVM tool interface

• AI fake text generator hobbled over fear of ‘malicious applications’

  OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, has hobbled the publicly available version of a new AI-based text generator due to “concerns about malicious applications of the technology”.

• LandMark White data posted on darkweb forum

  Property valuation firm LandMark White says its decision to yesterday request the ASX pause trading of its shares came as it sought “clarity” around the impact of a data breach on its services.

• Cyber espionage research group Citizen Lab emboldened by ‘entrapment attempt’

  ​For the first time, the University of Sydney hired a security guard to man the door at a public lecture this week, given by the director of digital espionage research centre Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert.

• Operator of Greek movie website opposes attempt to have it blocked in Australia

  The operator of an online service dedicated to Greek-language movies and TV series has opposed an attempt by a group of entertainment companies to compel Australian ISPs block access to his site.

• 5G is "not the atom bomb" says Huawei rotating CEO Eric Xu

  Tech giant addressed Donald Trump, 5G security concerns and how discussions with Britain's GCHQ led to a near total rewrite of its software.