Category: ITnews

Home Affairs tight-lipped on next cyber security coordinator
13
Feb
2024

Home Affairs tight-lipped on next cyber security coordinator – Security

Home Affairs officials have refused to confirm a report that military intelligence veteran Major General Michelle McGuinness will be the…

Regional Investment Corporation insources loan management, contact centre
12
Feb
2024

Regional Investment Corporation insources loan management, contact centre – Finance – Cloud – Software

Regional Investment Corporation (RIC), a government lender to farm businesses, has completed a project to insource lending and contact centre…

UN experts investigate 58 cyber attacks worth US$3 billion
12
Feb
2024

UN experts investigate 58 cyber attacks worth US$3 billion – Security

United Nations sanctions monitors are investigating dozens of suspected cyber attacks by North Korea that raked in US$3 billion ($4.6…

ACT moves on
12
Feb
2024

ACT moves on “digital intermediary” amendments – Strategy

The ACT government has launched digital-age amendments to its defamation law. The amendment, known as the Civil Law (Wrongs) Amendment…

GrainCorp pilots AI to break down comms barriers with 3000 casuals
12
Feb
2024

GrainCorp pilots AI to break down comms barriers with 3000 casuals – Software

GrainCorp is piloting AI to communicate with 3000 casual workers employed during the annual harvest season and wants to apply…

Tracking and keeping maintenance personnel safe with Appian
12
Feb
2024

Tracking and keeping maintenance personnel safe with Appian – Partner Content

To replace outdated paper- and email-based site access management processes, the organisation has built multiple process automation applications on the…

EY rolls out AI-powered platform
12
Feb
2024

Dept of Infrastructure aims for multi-year IT modernisation – Strategy

The federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts has revealed plans for a multi-year IT and…

'Warzone RAT' malware service dismantled
11
Feb
2024

‘Warzone RAT’ malware service dismantled – Security

US authorities said they had seized websites used to sell cybercriminals malware called “Warzone RAT” that could be used to…

Google helps get Humboldt cable between Chile and Sydney off the ground
09
Feb
2024

Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini – Software

Google has renamed its Bard chatbot after the new artificial intelligence that is powering it, called Gemini, and said consumers…

Meta's oversight board to investigate posts about Australian Indigenous vote
09
Feb
2024

Meta’s oversight board to investigate posts about Australian Indigenous vote – Software

Meta’s oversight board will examine two cases on how the social media giant handled potentially misleading posts that were shared…

Telstra says other carriers had input into disaster mobile roaming lab test
08
Feb
2024

Telstra says other carriers had input into disaster mobile roaming lab test – Telco/ISP

A simulation of emergency mobile device roaming by Telstra earlier this week ran with input from other telcos, though they…

Chinese attackers camped on US networks for five years
08
Feb
2024

Chinese attackers camped on US networks for five years – Strategy – Security

Six US government agencies have joined three international partners to warn that attackers from the Volt Typhoon threat group are…