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• Cyber security needs rebels

  Cyber security needs “rascals” not hand-raisers who won’t question authority. But the problem is that the education system is not typically geared towards generating the kind of rebellious spirits that the sector needs, according to UNSW professor of cyber security Richard Buckland.

• Canberra cyber node joins national network

  The Canberra Cyber Security Innovation Node has officially launched, joining a national of network led by AustCyber.

• Zoho launches A/NZ cloud region

  Six months after flagging plans for a local data centre, cloud software vendor Zoho has launched its A/NZ cloud.

• Secrets of latest Smominru botnet variant revealed in new attack

  Researchers gained access to a Smominru command-and-control server to get details on compromised devices and scope of the attack.

• Misconfigured WS-Discovery in devices enable massive DDoS amplification

  Researchers were able to achieve amplification rates of up to 15,300%. Some mitigations are possible.

• Oracle pits GraalVM against Google Go

  Oracle touts the fast startup and small memory footprint of the polyglot VM, which will soon be upgraded to Java 11

• DXC establishes digital transformation centre in Adelaide

  DXC has opened its new global digital transformation centre in South Australia with a remit to develop high-impact digital solutions across Australia and New Zealand.

• How Slack helps Iress innovate and ship code

  Slack’s communications platform has played a key role in helping Australian-headquartered financial software publisher Iress promote collaboration among its geographically dispersed workforce. However, it is also central to the build pipelines of Iress’ developers as well as playing a key role when it comes to the ops.

• QLD closes investigation on former eHealth boss

  Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) said on Thursday that there was insufficient evidence to commence a criminal prosecution against the state’s former eHealth chief, Dr Richard Ashby.

• Apple spars with EU as US$14 billion Irish tax dispute drags on

  Apple accused the European Commission of misunderstanding its business on day two of the iPhone maker's appeal against a US$14 billion tax order, in a dispute that is key to the EU's drive to collect more taxes but which could also run for years.

• Ziggy Switkowski to continue as NBN Co chair

  NBN Co chair Dr Ziggy Switkowski was been given another three-year term, finance minister Senator Mathias Cormann and communications minister Paul Fletcher announced today.

• ATMs, traffic lights can now use NBN infrastructure

  NBN Co has launched a new ‘Network Extensions’ option that allows operators of ATMs and traffic and environmental infrastructure to use the company’s network to connect their devices.

• Cisco spreads ACI to Microsoft Azure, multi-cloud and SD-WAN environments

  Cisco is significantly spreading its ACI technology to help customers grow and control hybrid​, multi-cloud and SD-WAN environments.

• Back-up the data in AWS Elastic Block Store

  A recent Amazon outage resulted in a small number of customers losing production data stored in their accounts.

• Why Australian organisations need to adopt a cloud-native approach

  Many businesses are hitting a wall when it comes to delivering value and innovation from their cloud strategy. That’s because they have mainly focused on application migration – moving old apps and functionality onto a cloud platform. While this model was effective for a while, being in the cloud now carries much more importance to Australian organisations.