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• Government to boost fines for privacy breaches

  The government says it will legislate increase the penalties that can be levied under the Privacy Act to 10 per cent of a company’s turnover, $10 million or three times the value of a benefit obtained through the misuse of information, whichever is greater, up from a current cap of $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches.

• Melbourne Uni fights spaghetti threat with iPaaS

  The University of Melbourne has increased its use of cloud services as part of a broader innovation agenda — but that emphasis has brought with it the dangers of reverting to a previous condition of “spaghetti architecture,” according to Tommy Hoeglund​.

• Autonomy founder set for $5B HP court showdown

  Mike Lynch faces HP in London's High Court on Monday in a multi-billion dollar showdown over the tech giant's purchase of the Autonomy software business he founded.

• Security researcher pleads guilty in GoGet case

  Illawarra-based security researcher Nikola Cubrilovic has pleaded guilty to charges related to unauthorised access to the GoGet service and will be sentenced in May.

• Researchers warn further flaws may be found in NSW’s iVote

  Researchers have found a new vulnerability in a Swiss e-voting platform that could point to the existence of previously unknown security flaws in the iVote platform used by New South Wales.

• Domo founder declares IPO a success, downplays cash burn concerns

  Domo has had mixed fortunes since it went public in June 2018, surpassing analyst expectations but maintaining a high burn rate.

• Inside the new Continuous Delivery Foundation

  Does the world need yet another open source foundation? That is a question that was posed to the founding members of the CDF - the Continuous Delivery Foundation - which recently formed as an addition to the roster of sub-groups beneath the Linux Foundation.

• Fast forward: What's coming in future versions of Chrome?

  Every time Google updates its browser, it publishes release notes aimed at enterprises to highlight upcoming additions, substitutions, enhancements and modifications. Here's some of what's coming.

• TV companies told to have their ducks in a row for set-top box case

  Two international distributors of TV channels have been told to expect scrutiny of their attempt to block online services associated with an IPTV set-top box even if they are relying on what “may be a predictable non-appearance” by the company that distributes the device.

• MNF Group ditches residential broadband

  MNF Group, whose brands include MyNetFone, Symbio Networks, Telcoinabox and PenntyTel, has announced it will sell its fixed-line residential broadband customer base to Southern Phone Company Ltd.

• Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees

  ​Facebook says it it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees.

• Cisco directs high priority patches for IP phone security exposures

  Cisco has advised customers using its 7800 and 8800 series IP phones they should patch a variety of high-priority vulnerabilities.

• Inside the new Cloudera Data Platform: vision, migration and roadmap

  Cloudera has laid out its plans for a new combined data platform since merging with fellow open source big data vendor Hortonworks.

• Trello, in major update, hands admins more control over public boards

  The task management app gets a range of new enterprise admin tools, with automation related to Trello’s purchase of Butler being rolled out for all users.

• ‘Fresh blood’ seeking employers welcome revived mainframe course

  A cohort of students are preparing to start a revived mainframe degree course this winter, a program welcomed by employers faced with a looming skills crisis within their organisations.