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• Government eyes health insurers' data to help uncover Medicare fraud

  The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on proposed legislation that would lay the basis for increased data-matching between government entities in order uncover fraudulent or incorrect Medicare claims. The proposal could also see the data provided from private health insurers automatically matched against government data holdings to red flag potential fraud.

• Australian businesses ill-prepared to respond to data breaches

  While many Australian organisations understand the inevitability of a data breach, a large majority are unprepared to respond to security incidents.

• Road safety: NSW says mobile phone detection program a ‘world first’

  A New South Wales mobile phone detection camera program will be a world first, according to the state government.

• NSW completes contactless payments rollout for transport

  New South Wales has completed the rollout of contactless payment via card and mobile device across Sydney’s public transport system.

• Unlocking AI’s trillion dollar potential

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to deliver up to $15 trillion in value to businesses across industries over the next 10 years, based on estimates from McKinsey, PwC and other experts.

• Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in response to Cambridge Analytica row

  ​Facebook said on Friday it has suspended tens of thousands of apps on the social networking platform, as part of the company's ongoing app developer investigation it began in March 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica row.

• US Senator seeks "grand alliance" to protect against surveillance threat from China’s tech dominance

  The senator believes Chinese companies will be required to aid surveillance of the US, especially as 5G networks roll out.

• How to decommission a data centre

  Decommissioning a data centre is lot more complicated than shutting down servers and switches. Here’s what you should keep in mind.

• Once hacked, twice shy: How auto supplier Harman learned to fight cyber carjackers

  Unlike consumer electronics, cars can stay in use for decades, long after operating systems and component software cease being supported through updates that patch vulnerabilities - a challenge the industry is still grappling with.

• 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