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• Data breach exposed apprentices’ passport details, employment agreements

  An open Amazon Web Services S3 bucket exposed sensitive data about apprentices, including passport scans, visa details, employment agreements and performance warnings.

• Commonwealth seeks savings with whole-of-government AWS deal

  The government has signed a new volume sourcing agreement with Amazon Web Services that it says will help slash the public sector’s cloud bill.

• ANZ takes leaf out of Google’s book to help steer agile teams

  ANZ is beginning to employ a management framework developed by Andrew Groves at Intel and famously employed at Google, as well as at other tech heavyweights including LinkedIn and Twitter, to help promote alignment across its business as it continues its move towards an agile operating model based on semi-autonomous teams.

• Microsoft beefs up OneDrive security

  Microsoft has announced changes to its OneDrive storage service that will let consumers protect some or even all of their cloud-stored documents.

• Oracle does-in Dyn, resets DNS services to cloud

  Oracle wants its DNS customers to migrate from its Dyn service to Oracle Cloud services, but some of those customers are very unhappy.

• Extreme targets cloud services, SD-WAN, WiFi 6 with US$210M Aerohive grab

  Extreme buys Aerohive’s wireless networking technology – including its new WiFi 6 gear – SD-WAN software and cloud-management services.

• Google’s Hangouts Chat gets chatbot boost with Dialogflow

  Google is looking to make it easier to build chatbots for Hangouts Chat, thanks to an integration with its Dialogflow conversational AI platform.

• How to get Apple's iOS 13, iPadOS or macOS 'Catalina' betas

  ​Apple earlier this month issued previews for this year's upgrades to iOS and macOS, its two most popular operating systems, at the firm's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

• NT government awards contract for secondary data centre

  Area9 has been awarded a major Northern Territory government IT contract, with the company tasked with delivering a backup data centre for the NT over the next decade.

• RBA, APRA could name and shame over Internet banking outages

  The Reserve Bank of Australia is working with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on developing standards for reporting the performance of retail banking services after a spike in outages at major financial institutions in 2018.

• In push to replace Huawei, rural US carriers are talking with Nokia and Ericsson

  About a dozen rural U.S. telecom carriers that depend on Huawei for network gear are in discussions with its biggest rivals, Ericsson and Nokia, to replace their Chinese equipment, sources familiar with the matter said.

• US Federal Reserve to hold Facebook's crypto coin to 'high' bar

  The U.S. Federal Reserve is looking carefully at Facebook's planned cryptocurrency Libra, and will hold it to high standards regarding protecting consumers and regulation, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Tuesday.

• Huawei exec attacks NBN, Ericsson

  Huawei Australia’s chief technology officer has claimed the National Broadband Network project has “failed” and that “Australians needs to stop expecting NBN Co to deliver high-speed broadband to all Australians – it is just not going to happen”.

• IT consultant used Wi-Fi sniffer for insider trading scheme

  An IT consultant used a Wi-Fi network sniffer to obtain the network login credentials of staff at a financial publisher as part of a scheme to obtain stock purchasing recommendations ahead of their release.

• Hackers hit global telcos in espionage campaign: cyber research firm

  ​Hackers have broken into the systems of more than a dozen global telecoms companies and taken large amounts of personal and corporate data.