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• Government seeks mobile coverage boost for ‘public interest’ locations

  The government has officially launched the fourth round of its Mobile Black Spot Program.

• Government encryption bill: Cisco, Mozilla join chorus of tech critics

  Networking vendor Cisco has joined a lengthening list of tech sector critics of a bill that the government says is necessary to help police and security agencies counteract the use of encrypted communications channels.

• Security: ‘Sticky note’ vulnerability still bringing organisations undone

  Call it the sticky-note hole: As information security vulnerabilities go, it is low tech but profoundly dangerous nonetheless.

• Cyber security centres warn of RATs, ’katz

  The Australian Cyber Security Centre has worked with its equivalents in Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the United States to produce a report highlighting countermeasures for some of the most common threats faced by enterprises and governments.

• How 2400 sensors and machine learning models keep Sydney Harbour Bridge spanning the decades

  The crew that maintains the Sydney Harbour Bridge speaks about the 52,800 tonne steel structure with deep affection.

• ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch

  The KSK rollover involved generating a new cryptographic public and private key pair and distributing the new public component to parties who operate validating resolvers, according to ICANN. Such resolvers run software that converts typical addresses like networkworld.com into IP network addresses.

• Apple pushes back against ‘dangerously ambiguous’ encryption bill

  Apple has described as “dangerously ambiguous with respect to encryption and security” the federal government’s surveillance bill.

• Home Affairs rejects calls for additional safeguards in ‘spyware’ law

  Home Affairs has rejected calls to boost judicial oversight of the government's new surveillance bill.

• Google quizzed over delay in disclosing vulnerability

  Three influential Republican U.S. senators has asked Google to explain why it delayed disclosing vulnerabilities with its Google+ social network.

• MOBI jumps into UEM with new desktop, IoT management tools

  Mobile management provider MOBI has added desktops and IoT devices to the portfolio of enterprise devices it can manage, plunging it into the unified endpoint management game.

• NT government plans $1m boost to IT industry

  The Northern Territory government has announced a Digital Partnerships grant program as one of the key initiatives in the NT’s first-ever digital strategy.

• Microsoft cautiously restarts Windows 10 1809 upgrade distribution

  The rollout was halted after a bug wiped out some users' files; Microsoft ackowledged that the lost data may not be recoverable.

• Is there a white-box server in your data center’s future?

  The stagnant server market is heating up as 'white box' server vendors grab an increasing share of the cloud business. Enterprises have been reluctant to follow the lead of hyperscale data center vendors to off-brand server competitors, largely due to a lack of enterprise-grade service and maintenance options. But the economics are compelling.

• Juniper advances network automation community, skillsets

  Juniper is looking to be an evangelist for network automation by announcing a variety of applications, tools, labs and libraries that it says will hasten adoption the technology for businesses and network professionals.

• Puppet builds project and vulnerability assessment tools for devops

  The beta tools are designed to help assess devops results and automate security remediations