Telstra customers’ details included in leaked data file – Security – Telco/ISP
About 3000 Telstra customers with OptiComm-based broadband services have had some personal information leaked as part of a data file published to a hacking forum.…
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NSW cyber security agency plans further local government action – Security
Cyber Security NSW is planning industry roundtables which it hopes will bolster security in the local government sector. NSW Chief cyber security officer Tony Chapman…
Cyber criminals gather together, researchers find – Security
Cyber crime is not as fluid or mobile as believed, with international research identifying six hotspots that host the most malicious activity. An Australia-UK-French research…
TPG Telecom is uplifting its data estate – Cloud – Software – Telco/ISP
TPG Telecom has embarked on a program of work to uplift its data estate and governance in preparation for anticipated uses of generative AI. Melanie…
Deutsche Telekom, Airbus slam plan allowing Big Tech to bid for EU cloud work – Cloud
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Airbus and 15 other EU companies have criticised a proposal that would allow Amazon, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft to bid for highly…
Electric utilities brace for surge in power demand from data centres – Networking
US electric utilities predict a tidal wave of new demand from data centres powering technology like generative AI, with some power companies projecting electricity sales…
Rust runs into trouble on Windows – Security
The Rust programming language has a standard library on Windows that gives attackers a way to execute shell commands. Rated critical in an advisory on GitHub,…
Microsoft unleashes 157 bug fixes – Security
Microsoft has pushed out 157 fixes for “Patch Tuesday”, including seven Chromium bugs in the Edge browser, but critical vulnerabilities are few and far between.…
nib recounts nine-year journey into the cloud – Cloud
Health insurer nib has broken down the biggest roadblocks and wins in its journey to migrate 95 percent of its workloads to AWS, which started…
NSW Electoral Commission CISO moving on – Strategy – Training & Development – Security
The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is seeking a chief information security officer (CISO) following the departure of Vishwanath Nair. The role description for the position…
UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94 – Strategy
Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century…
Iress uses GenAI to help it respond to procurement requests – Cloud – Software – Storage
Iress, a maker of financial services software, used generative AI to help it to respond to lengthy requests for information (RFIs) and request for proposals…