Telstra trials way to keep eftpos, critical voice services working during outages – Cloud – Telco/ISP
Telstra is trialling a way to keep critical services like eftpos and Services Australia numbers working in the event of a major network outage, by…
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SolarWinds patches three critical bugs – Security
SolarWinds has patched five remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software, three of which are rated critical. The bugs were discovered…
Unpaid software bill cut off parliament expense system in January – Software
A 15-hour outage of parliamentarians’ expense system in January has been attributed to an unpaid invoice. The cause of the January 23 outage of the…
Mobile coverage mandated for new housing – Telco/ISP
Property developers could be required to consider mobile coverage during planning of housing developments larger than 50 dwellings. The federal government’s Telecommunications in New Developments…
Government moves to expand SMS Sender ID registry – Security – Telco/ISP
Nine months after announcing it would require telcos to use a Sender ID Registry to combat SMS spam, the government has started consultation over whether…
NDIA gets $83.9m to build anti-fraud IT systems – Software
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is set to receive $83.9 million in “new funding” to build or bolster IT systems used for fraud case…
Clayton Utz automating legal tasks with OpenAI, Relativity and Lexis+AI – Software
Clayton Utz has built a suite of tools to automate general and specialised legal tasks with OpenAI and RelativityOne, and is looking to save its…
AEC reorganisation opens CIO role – Strategy – Training & Development
The Australian Electoral Commission is looking for a chief information officer (CIO) for its enterprise transformation group (ETG). The commission told iTnews it is looking…
The workplace persona that’s indispensable in a crisis – Partner Content
Mounting an effective response to a crisis, such as a data breach, is a significant challenge, but having the people in your team that are…
Telstra reins in IT operations to get cost-out target back on track – Telco/ISP
Telstra will “significantly” reduce IT operations spending and the number of “legacy” IT and networks in its environment to try to meet a cost-out target…
DNS resolvers inherited specification bug – Security
A protocol error in the venerable Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) specification, dubbed Key Trap, exposes DNS resolvers worldwide to denial-of-service attacks. While CVE-2023-50387…
RBA launches core modernisation design phase – Strategy
The Reserve Bank of Australia is looking for designs that will form the basis of its core infrastructure modernisation (CIM) program. The RBA this week…