Category: ITnews

22
Jan
2023

SA Police asks for easier emergency access to geolocation data – Security – Telco/ISP

South Australia Police is pressing for more permissive access to cellular location data in emergencies, arguing proposed law changes don’t…

22
Jan
2023

QUT alerts staff, students to data breach – Security

Queensland University of Technology has alerted 2500 staff and 67 students that their personal information was breached in a late…

21
Jan
2023

AWS to invest another US$35 billion in Virginia – Networking

Amazon Web Services plans to invest another US$35 billion (A$50.3 billion) by 2040 to expand data centres in Virginia. AWS…

21
Jan
2023

Google parent cuts 12,000 jobs – Training & Development

Google’s parent Alphabet is cutting about 12,000 jobs as it faces “a different economic reality”, it said in a staff…

20
Jan
2023

Slack plug-and-play tools accelerate automation – Partner Content

As an organisation, Slack has always been on the lookout for the best ways to accelerate innovation and collaboration. Initially,…

20
Jan
2023

Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre restructured – Strategy – Security

The government’s Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre ended 2022 with an organisational and executive restructure. CISC head Hamish Hansford wrote in…

20
Jan
2023

Flying Doctor takes on Starlink for regional access – Telco/ISP

The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Queensland has directly partnered with Starlink to deploy a three-site regional satellite service to…

20
Jan
2023

Meta’s WhatsApp fined 5.5 million euro by privacy regulator – Strategy

Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros (A$8.6 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead…

20
Jan
2023

Digital platforms warned: tackle disinformation or face regulation – Strategy

If major digital platforms don’t deal with harmful online disinformation, they will be made subject to regulation and a mandatory…

20
Jan
2023

GitLab pushes patches for critical bugs – Security

GitLab has published patches to two critical vulnerabilities in the popular Git version control software. As the organisation said in its…

19
Jan
2023

Oracle issues more than 300 security fixes – Security

Oracle’s first bug-fix release for 2023 includes 71 critical patches out of a total 327 security updates. A large number…

19
Jan
2023

Home Affairs targets cyber security uplift with ‘Project Eight’ – Security

Home Affairs has set up a dedicated taskforce within its ICT division to assess its cyber security maturity against the…