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• NBN Co CEO defends enterprise market push

  NBN Co’s chief executive has rejected criticism of the company’s efforts to increase its revenue from the business segment, with the network operator defending its direct engagement with major enterprises over the rollout of fibre services.

• NSW takes step towards unified transport payment system

  The New South Wales government says its new Opal Connect service could become a ‘one stop shop’ for transport payments and information, potentially allowing users to pay for ridesharing, taxi services, road tolls and parking as well as public transport.

• SkyWater gets $170 million from Pentagon for space-friendly chips

  Semiconductor maker SkyWater Technology said on Monday it will receive up to US$170 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to make chips that can work in outer space, and create smaller, faster ones with new materials.

• Parliament hack a ‘national cyber crisis’

  The Australian Signals Directorate says that it categorised the successful penetration of the Parliament House network as ‘C1’ on the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Cyber Incident Categorisation Matrix.

• Landmark White touts ISO 27001 certification

  Property valuation firm Landmark White has achieved ISO 27001 certification, the company announced this week.

• Russian group hijacked Iranian spying operation, say NSA, GCHQ

  Russian hackers piggy-backed on an Iranian cyber-espionage operation to attack government and industry organizations in dozens of countries while masquerading as attackers from the Islamic Republic, British and U.S. officials said on Monday.

• Hitachi Vantara CTO on quantum, data ethics, and public trust

  When quantum computing moves from the theoretical world into the applied space it threatens to break apart the accepted modus operandi of much of the technology industry, something Hubert Yoshida, the CTO of Hitachi Vantara is keenly aware of.

• Secured-core PCs offer new defence against firmware attacks

  Microsoft, PC makers, and three major chipmakers team up to announce Secured-core PCs, designed to defend against PC firmware attacks.

• Facebook announces new steps to clamp down on misinformation ahead of 2020 US election

  Facebook announced new steps to combat misinformation and voter suppression on Monday ahead of the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, on the same day it disclosed the removal of a network of Russian accounts targeting U.S. voters on Instagram.

• SAP teams up on cloud sales with Microsoft

  The partnership, called "Embrace", will help clients to run operations hosted at remote servers supported by SAP's flagship S/4HANA database

• Microsoft buys Mover to make moving from Google Drive to OneDrive a snap

  Microsoft buys Mover, a cloud migration service that helps make moving your data from Google Drive and others into OneDrive and Sharepoint as easy as possible.

• Firefox adds a WebSocket inspector

  New tool in Firefox DevTools allows you to inspect WebSocket traffic to troubleshoot connection problems

• Yes, you can reap cost benefits from the cloud

  How four companies improved storage, backup, telephony, security, scalability, IT efficiency, and the bottom line by moving to the cloud

• JSON tools you don’t want to miss

  Developers can choose from many great free and online tools for JSON formatting, validating, editing, and converting to other formats

• IoT, Virtual ISP: NBN Co details business satellite offerings

  NBN Co has released details of ‘Virtual ISP’ (VISP) and Internet of Things (IoT) services for businesses that use the network operator’s Sky Muster satellites.