Virgin Australia joins travel industry’s new data exchange – Software
Virgin Australia has joined Flight Centre and Qantas in a race to capitalise on emerging platforms that enable airlines and travel agents to share user…
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Telstra to test emergency mobile roaming – Telco/ISP
Telstra is the first carrier to simulate emergency roaming on its mobile network, a week after the ACCC backed the capability for use in natural…
NBN Co to permanently cut prices of high uplink plans – Telco/ISP
NBN Co is set to make permanent some sizable price cuts to its three high-end products that offer better uplink speeds. The company on Wednesday…
Testra to test emergency mobile roaming – Telco/ISP
Telstra is the first carrier to simulate emergency roaming on its mobile network, a week after the ACCC backed the capability for use in natural…
How Village Roadshow’s ticket sites survived Barbenheimer – Cloud – Software
Village Roadshow Entertainment ramped up its ability to withstand traffic spikes and detect problems with its online box office systems in the lead-up to the…
Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash – Software
Tesla won the first US trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, a major victory for the automaker as…
Blurring tech boundaries a cyber risk, says CISC – Security
The convergence of operational technology (OT) and IT is compounding the risks to critical infrastructure, the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC) has said in…
RBA warns AI, ‘big tech’ to weigh on Australia’s financial system stability – Finance – Cloud – Security – Software
The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that cyber security, cloud and AI are creating operational risks for the financial sector with potential “systemic implications”…
Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals – Security
Forty countries in a US-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding…
US Supreme Court weighs if public officials can block critics on social media – Software
The US Supreme Court is grappling with a pair of cases from California and Michigan involving public officials blocking critics on social media, with the…
Critical vulnerability found in Atlassian Confluence software – Security
Atlassian has issued an out-of-cycle warning that all versions of its Confluence Data Centre and Confluence Server software are vulnerable to an improper authorisation vulnerability.…
SolarWinds and its CISO face SEC charges – Security
SolarWinds and its long-time CISO Timothy Brown are set to face US SEC charges, alleging that critical vulnerabilities that led to the infamous SUNBURST attack…