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• CASA to launch drone safety API

  The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is planning to retire its ‘Can I Fly There?’ drone safety app.

• Facebook reveals Libra cryptocurrency, aims to launch it in 2020

  ​Facebook has revealed plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra, the latest development in its effort to expand beyond social networking and move into e-commerce and global payments.

• What is PKI? And how it secures just about everything online

  Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a catch-all term for everything used to establish and manage public key encryption, one of the most common forms of internet encryption. It is baked into every web browser in use today to secure traffic across the public internet, but organizations can also deploy it to secure their internal communications.

• South Australia to roll out centralised security analytics capability

  The South Australian government will invest in an “across government automated analytics and monitoring capability,” budget documents reveal.

• NSW government launches $100m ‘digital restart’ fund

  New South Wales will establish a ‘Digital Restart Fund’ in 2019-20 with seed funding of $100 million over the next two years to fund whole-of-government digital transformation.

• US chipmakers quietly lobby to ease Huawei ban

  Huawei's American chip suppliers, including Qualcomm and Intel, are quietly pressing the U.S. government to ease its ban on sales to the Chinese tech giant, even as Huawei itself avoids typical government lobbying, people familiar with the situation said.

• Huawei says US ban hurting more than expected, to wipe US$30 billion off revenue

  China's Huawei has taken a harder-than-expected hit from a US ban, the company's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said, and slashed revenue expectations for the year.

• ‘League of Entropy’: Cloudflare gets, like, totally random

  A wall of lava lamps, seismic measurements of earthquakes in Chile, Twitter posts, and the Ethereum blockchain are among the sources being used to generate random numbers by a new consortium.

• DNS hijacking grabs headlines, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg

  DNS pioneer Paul Vixie contemplates missed opportunities for improving internet security and advocates for widespread use of DNSSEC, which he helped create, and which he believes would go a long way toward improving DNS security.

• Phishers hit ACU, compromised systems

  The Australian Catholic University says that a number of staff email accounts and some of its systems have been compromised after a successful phishing campaign.

• Telstra eyes more TV spectrum for mobile services

  Telstra has recommend that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) look at whether some of the spectrum set aside for television services could be better used for 5G mobile services.

• Warning issued over NBN scam surge

  Australian consumers lost an average of $110,000 to NBN scams in the first five months of 2019, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

• Home Affairs seeks to tackle hodgepodge UC

  Home Affairs is seeking to rationalise its unified communications platforms as part of a broader strategy to streamline technology at the mega-department.

• AGL swiftly backs away from possible Vocus acquisition

  Less than a week into a four-week period of exclusive due diligence AGL says that it will not proceed with a potential acquisition of Vocus.

• Dutton backs ‘sensible discussion’ of expanded role for ASD

  Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton has said that he doesn’t support an expansion of the Australian Signals Directorate’s mandate to include “spying” within Australia, but has called for a “sensible discussion” of a domestic role for the ASD.