RMIT University’s longtime CDAO leaves
RMIT University’s chief data and analytics officer of six-and-a-half years Nonna Milmeister has left with a search for her replacement set to commence shortly. Milmeister…
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Single Windows image drove RedVDS disposable cybercrime server business
A criminal enterprise used a single base Windows Server 2022 cloud image to create a large amount of virtual dedicated servers (VDS), which were then…
Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million accounts
Social media companies have collectively deactivated 4.7 million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the…
ACMA tries to source unfixable Samsung handsets
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is trying to source end-of-life Samsung devices that are being blocked from networks due to triple zero calling…
Rio Tinto plugs AWS into innovative copper process
Rio Tinto is harnessing data and analytics services from AWS to optimise a process it’s championing to extract copper from ore. The miner said that…
Vic Education database breached via school’s network
All Victorian government schools and their students are impacted by the breach of a Department of Education database that has forced a mass password reset…
Microsoft patches single-click Copilot data stealing attack
The first Patch Tuesday (Wednesday in the Antipodes) for the year included a fix for a single-click prompt injection attack affecting the consumer version of…
ctrl:cyber strengthens sovereign cyber capability with elevenM acquisition
ctrl:cyber has acquired elevenM, strengthening its end-to-end sovereign capability and national footprint. The acquisition brings together two organisations with closely aligned values and deep expertise,…
Local Technology Infrastructure Is Key to Australia’s Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Future
Australian organisations have spent the past decade embracing cloud and software as a service (SaaS), yet many chief information officers (CIOs) still find themselves constrained…
Researchers unsure of purpose of new VoidLink Linux malware
Check Point Software researchers have discovered what they say is a cloud-first malware framework aimed at Linux-based operating systems, with an unusually broad set of…
Services Australia to tap law enforcement data for staff security
Services Australia is planning to deploy a new intelligence and investigation system that will allow it to cross reference customer data with information held by…
European telcos may get unlimited radio spectrum rights
Europe’s telecoms providers may be given the use of lucrative radio spectrum without a time limit under the European Commission’s proposed revamp of telecoms rules…