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• NBN Co eyes new ways to fend off mobile challenge in apartment blocks

  NBN Co executives say they are examining ways to address challenges faced by short-term renters, including potentially introducing an arrangement for broadband services similar to that offered by utilities for electricity.

• Splunk pulls out of Russia

  Splunk has announced it will cease selling its platform to organisations in Russia. The decision also applies to subsidiaries whose parent companies are based in Russia and businesses that “would use the software or services within the territory”.

• Why 2019 should mark a levelled playing field for IT sector entrants

  Reports of an information technology (IT) and cybersecurity skills gap have fostered debate across media, business, and the IT industry itself.

• Former Defence CISO to government: Get the basics right on cyber security

  ​Former Department of Defence chief information security officer Lynwen Connick has called on the government to "get the basics right" around digital security in the wake of a cyber attack on the parliamentary computer network.

• Tech industry peak body expects ‘encryption’ law to hit exports

  The chief executive of the Australian Information Industry Association has warned that laws designed to help police and national security agencies intercept encrypted communications are likely to affect the nation’s “ICT innovation and export activities”.

• How Australia’s Cog Systems is working to secure IoT

  Gartner expects that by 2021, there will be some 25 billion ‘connected things’ in use. With everything from children’s teddy bears to cars to medical implants now being at increasing risk of either infection by malware or a new means to exfiltrate data, it is not a surprise that the analyst firm expects that by 2021, worldwide spending on IoT will reach US$3.12 billion.

• Britain does not support total Huawei network ban: sources

  British security officials do not support a full ban of Huawei from national telecoms networks despite U.S. allegations the Chinese firm and its products could be used by Beijing for spying, people with knowledge of the matter said.

• Zoho brings Zia AI assistant to its office apps

  Zoho Writer, Sheets and Show all get new artificial intelligence features in the latest update to Zoho Office Suite. The suite now includes a new app, Notebook.

• IBM is all-in on hybrid cloud

  Following its blockbuster $33 billion acquisition of the open source Linux company Red Hat last year, IBM has clearly set out its strategy for the future, and it is all about the hybrid cloud.

• Data breaches exposed 5 billion records in 2018.

  New report from Risk Based Security shows a downward trend in number breaches and exposed records, Unclear if privacy regulations like GDPR are having an effect.

• Leaked client data ‘relatively benign’ LandMark White says

  LandMark White has claimed that the data inadvertently leaked by the property valuation firm and subsequently posted on a ‘darkweb’ forum is “relatively benign”.

• Government says ‘state actor’ hacked Australian political parties’ networks

  The Australian government believes that an unnamed state actor penetrated the networks of the Liberal, National and Labor parties, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today.

• UK MPs issue damning report Facebook, call for independent ethical oversight

  Facebook and other big tech companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news, the abuse of users' data and the bullying of smaller firms, British lawmakers said on Monday.

• NBN scales-up release of HFC premises after ‘pause’

  NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue says the company will conduct a “significant release of optimised HFC premises over the next six months”.

• Microsoft shoves some Windows 10 testers into next year with early look at 2020 feature upgrade

  The company pointed to a 'longer lead time' for some of the features in the far-off upgrade, which isn't expected to arrive until the spring of 2020.