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• Outsourcing IT to mitigate security risks

  As businesses become more digitalised and technology becomes more engrained in the workplace, many organisations and their IT departments struggle to keep up with the growing demand for support.

• CBA helps LandMark White boost security

  Property valuation firm LandMark White says it has made “enhancements to its IT security procedures including anonymisation of private details on completed valuations,” following a significant data breach that saw customer records being posted on a darkweb forum.

• Woodside buys into WA cyber security firm

  Woodside will take a 10 per cent shareholding in a Western Australian cyber security firm that specialises in protecting critical infrastructure.

• Telstra, Optus to roll out new base stations to tackle mobile blackspots

  Round 4 of the government’s mobile blackspot program will see 180 new base stations co-funded by the Commonwealth, bringing the total number of base stations funded by the program to-date to more than 1040.

• SA meat producer and supermarket chain trial IBM’s blockchain

  Two South Australian businesses have signed up to participate in a pilot of a blockchain-based platform that is intended to allow the entire lifecycle of a food product to be traced.

• How to maintain the ethical use of technology in healthcare

  In the last few years, advances in both software and hardware for machine learning have enabled people to take large volumes of data to build predictive models.

• CBA settles core banking R&D stoush with tax office

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia said today that it has reached an agreement with the Australian Taxation Office relating to R&D tax claims.

• How the ASD balances cyber security and offensive operations

  Once a closely guarded secret, the role of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) in what the organisation’s director-general, Mike Burgess, describes as “offensive cyber operations” has been acknowledged by Canberra since 2016.

• Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents, jury finds

  Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm on Friday won a legal victory against iPhone maker Apple, with a jury in federal court in San Diego finding that Apple owes Qualcomm about US$31 million for infringing three of its patents.

• How SDN, SD-WAN and security fit in VMware's strategy

  VMware networking and security chief Tom Gillis looks at competing with Cisco and how the tech giant will bolster NSX and more.

• Cyber criminals increasingly favouring 'low and slow' stealth attacks

  A "low and slow" approach to financially driven cyber attacks has overtaken ransomware as the chief attack vector for criminals seeking to extort money.

• National Blood Authority CIO takes on new challenge at DTA

  Australia’s National Blood Authority is on the hunt for a new CIO, with the NBA’s chief information officer preparing to join the federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency.

• Activ8me to refund customers, pay $250k fine over ads

  Australian Private Networks will pay a Federal Court-imposed $250,000 fine after admitting to making false or misleading claims in a series of advertisements.

• 'Collaboration key' in solving quantum scalability challenges

  The collaborative spirit within the quantum computing research community is bearing fruit with joint research by scientists at UNSW and the University of Sydney which has “overcome a fundamental hurdle” in the field.

• MPs make security hard, says the Department of Parliamentary Services

  The variety of applications and services employed by MPs and their staff present a security challenge that is probably unique across the federal public sector, according to the Department of Parliamentary Services.