Encryption: Has the government stuck to its ‘no backdoors’ pledge?
Bill to tackle encrypted communications bars police from requesting the introduction of a ‘systemic weakness’ in a service
Government hasn’t given up on ‘re-identification’ bill
But won’t commit to timeline for debating proposed Privacy Act amendments
New law to force tech companies to build features for police
Government releases exposure draft of bill to increase ability of police and intelligence agencies to access communications services
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TPG, Vodafone confirm merger discussions
Potential ‘merger of equals’
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CFO Stephen Rue to be NBN Co’s next chief executive
CFO takes over from Bill Morrow
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Want to hack the WA government? Try ‘Password123’
WA government agencies get annual whipping over lax security
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Whoops: Government dished out too much money for data retention
Audit scrutinises payments to telcos
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MP warns of cyber threat to Australian elections
Gai Brodtmann calls for election systems to be classified as critical infrastructure
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Sydney Trains blames bungled IT upgrade for transport chaos
Update causes system meltdown
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CFO Stephen Rue to be NBN Co’s next chief executive
NBN Co’s chief financial officer Stephen Rue will take over as the government-owned company’s chief executive from 1 September.
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TPG, Vodafone confirm merger discussions
TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia have confirmed they have engaged in “exploratory discussions” around a possible merger, with a combined entity potentially having more than 1.9 million fixed line customers and more than 6.1 million mobile customers.
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Flatpak Linux app distributor is now ready for prime time
After three years in beta, the multi-Linux desktop app installation tool has achieved Version 1.0 status
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Pure Storage CEO on all-flash data centers and the cloud
One year ago Charlie Giancarlo took the helm of Pure Storage, which in fiscal year 2018 reported its first billion-dollar year.
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Want to hack the WA government? Try ‘Password123’
A staggering 60,000 out of 234,0000 active accounts at a range of WA government agencies were potentially at risk of a dictionary attack due to their weak passwords, a review by the state’s auditor general has found.
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Hack mobile point-of-sale systems? Researchers count the ways
Security researchers uncovered widespread vulnerabilities in mobile point-of-sale readers offered by Square, SumUp, PayPal and iZettle.
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Why you should consider crowdsourcing IT security services
Whether you need a pentesting team, a bug bounty program, or a vulnerability disclosure plan, several crowdsourcing platforms can take the risk and pain from the process.
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Whoops: Government dished out too much money for data retention
A grants program designed to help telcos defray the initial capital costs of complying with the government’s data retention regime was not implemented “to an appropriate standard having regard to the risks involved and the policy outcomes being sought,” a less-than-flattering audit has concluded.
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Banking still needs workhorse tech – don’t dump mainframes just yet
In industries like financial services where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of mainframes’ demise is greatly exaggerated (to paraphrase W.C. Fields) – at least for the near term.
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MP warns of cyber threat to Australian elections
The shadow assistant minister for cyber security, Gai Brodtmann, has called for the government to classify Australia’s election systems as a “critical infrastructure sector” under the Trusted Information Sharing Network in order to “overlay the appropriate scrutiny and assurance mechanisms to assure the Australian people of the cyber resilience of their democracy”.
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Gold Coast plans to open up expanded fibre network to telcos
The Gold Coast is planning to offer ISPs and backhaul providers access to its expanded fibre network in the hopes of reaping a financial reward for the Queensland city.
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Why Salesforce is open sourcing the AI technology behind Einstein
Salesforce is open sourcing the machine learning technology behind its Einstein AI platform.
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Lawsuit over Google location tracking
Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it.
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CBA blames data centre woes for outage
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed a major outage of its online banking services yesterday to an “issue” with one of its key data centres.
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Supply chain Woolworths’ next major tech challenge
Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci says continuing the implementation of JDA’s supply chain management platform will be the “big IT initiative” for the retailer following the completion of its 1Store program.
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In pictures: Google opens new Melbourne office
And there's barely a beanbag in sight
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Southern Cross Cable tracked across NZ's North Island
A tour depicting the route of international telecommunications cable the Southern Cross Cable across the North Island has been created by investigative artist Bronwyn Holloway-Smith.
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In pictures: Enabling the connected business through proactive transformation - Sydney Roundtable
As organisations increasingly adopt cloud platforms, a new kind of ‘connected business’ is emerging – one that’s more agile, integrated, and automated. Driving this change is a new breed of shared cloud platform.
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In pictures: The changing role of IT in the era of digital transformation
A group of IT experts gathered in Melbourne for the exclusive Computerworld and ManageEngine Breakfast Exchange Forum: The changing role of IT in the digital transformation era.
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