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• South Australia to roll out digital driver’s licences next month

  Digital licences for South Australian drivers will go live next month, the government has announced.

• Government promises $50 million boost to security research

  The government will invest $50 million over seven years to help establish an industry-led Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

• Buzzword bingo! Making Sense of SDN, SD-WAN, NFV and VNF

  Everyone in the SD-WAN solutions business frequently faces buzzword confusion when interacting with customers and partners learning about these newer concepts and technologies. It’s helpful first to define the four terms, before proceeding to a discussion of how they are related to one another, and what they all mean to your network.

• Eight reasons why you should conduct a DNS audit

  As the Mirai botnet attack on 21 October 2016 proved, the DNS (Domain Name System) is not immune to cyber-attacks. If there is one key lesson to take from it, it’s that organisations relying on online assets for their day-to-day activities simply cannot afford to lose a service like DNS.

• SA government IT exec sacked, charged

  South Australia’s Department of Premier and Cabinet has confirmed that it has ended the contract of chief information officer Veronica Theriault.

• Scientists give biometric security systems the (fake) finger

  Researchers have fabricated a wearable fake fingertip that is able to fool biometric security systems.

• Google’s HTC move borrows from Apple’s playbook

  Google's $1.1 billion acquisition of HTC’s smartphone engineering arm is a recognition that to produce a quality device you need to control over the hardware and software – just like Apple.

• Keybase takes on Slack with new end-to-end encrypted team messaging tool

  Keybase Teams is one of a variety of collaboration tools that sees secure communications options as a selling point.

• What is edge computing and how it’s changing the network

  Edge computing is a way to streamline the flow of traffic from IoT devices and provide real-time local data analysis.

• Imagination wants to add intelligence to smartphone chips

  Specialized hardware needed to accelerate machine learning algorithms is moving out of the data center and into high-end mobile phones. Soon it could be in everyone's pocket, if chip designer Imagination Technologies has its way.