Category: ITnews

With cyber security skills scarce, businesses can no longer cut it alone
01
Feb
2024

With cyber security skills scarce, businesses can no longer cut it alone – Partner Content

The increasing expectation that even small and medium businesses (SMBs), mid-market and not-for-profits (NFPs) be able to demonstrate compliance with…

Internet Association readies Tasmanian exchange
01
Feb
2024

Internet Association readies Tasmanian exchange – Telco/ISP

Tasmania is to get a presence on the Internet Association’s (IA) national network of internet exchanges, with TAS-IX members to…

Ivanti security patches start to ship
01
Feb
2024

Ivanti security patches start to ship – Security

Ivanti is shipping patches for vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure gateway that were first revealed on January 10. But while…

US disrupts hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure
01
Feb
2024

US disrupts hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure – Security

US officials said they disrupted a sweeping Chinese cyber-spying operation that targeted critical American infrastructure entities and could be used…

Gov agencies need to have a CISO
31
Jan
2024

Home Affairs elevates CIO to group manager – Training & Development

Home Affairs’ long-time CIO Radi Kovacevic has been elevated to lead the technology and major capability group on an acting…

Seek stands up a security data lake
31
Jan
2024

Seek stands up a security data lake – Cloud – Security

Seek has stood up a cloud-based security data lake, initially to improve its incident response but with a view to…

Siemens, Ericsson warn against EU cyber security rules
31
Jan
2024

Qld councils criticised for unresolved vulnerabilities – Security

Two-thirds of Queensland’s 77 councils have weaknesses in the security of their information systems. A review [pdf] of the sectors’…

ACSC presses enterprises to patch Jenkins
31
Jan
2024

ACSC presses enterprises to patch Jenkins – Security – Software

The Australian Cyber Security Centre is warning Australian enterprises to immediately patch vulnerabilities in the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous deployment software…

Tower could be cantilevered over Telstra exchange
31
Jan
2024

Tower could be cantilevered over Telstra exchange – Telco/ISP

The site of Telstra’s St Leonards exchange on Sydney’s lower north shore could be re-zoned to allow a $200 million-plus…

German police seizes US$2.17 billion in bitcoin
31
Jan
2024

German police seizes US$2.17 billion in bitcoin – Finance

German police have confiscated 50,000 bitcoin worth US$2.17 billion ($3.28 billion) in the country’s ‘most extensive’ cryptocurrency seizure ever, it…

Singtel says not considering divesting Optus units
31
Jan
2024

Singtel says not considering divesting Optus units – Telco/ISP

Singtel said it was not looking to divest from its Optus unit, Australia’s second-largest wireless operator, refuting a report from…

Cyber strategy has cost Home Affairs $2.8 million so far
30
Jan
2024

AI drives “digital divide” in Australia’s universities – Strategy

Australia needs to find affordable ways to make generative AI models available to university students, a house of representatives committee…