UK watchdog fines Equifax for role in cyber breach – Security
Britain’s financial watchdog has fined consumer credit rater Equifax 11 million pounds ($21.2 million) for its role in “one of the largest” cyber security breaches…
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Australia fines Musk’s X platform $610,500 – Software
Australia’s eSafety regulator has fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X $610,500 for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices, a blow…
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank shifts digital banking system to Google – Finance – Cloud
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has overhauled its digital banking system to run on Google Cloud, resulting in greater tailored customer experience and faster rollout of…
Citrix patches critical NetScaler bug – Security
Citrix has disclosed two vulnerabilities, one of them critical, in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products. While the company’s advisory is light on detail,…
Qld gov introduces data breach notification legislation – Security
The Queensland government has introduced a bill to set up a mandatory data breach notification scheme. The introduction of the scheme comes about 15 months…
Viasat says it will not replace satellite that malfunctioned – Telco/ISP
Viasat said it expects to recover less than 10 percent of the planned throughput on ViaSat-3 F1, its satellite that malfunctioned during deployment in July,…
Atlassian to buy video messaging provider Loom – Software
Atlassian has agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about US$975 million ($1.5 billion), beefing up its team collaboration tools to tap…
Microsoft says US has asked for US$28.9 billion – Software
Microsoft said the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in September notified the company that it is seeking an additional tax payment of US$28.9 billion ($45…
US Space Force pauses use of AI tools like ChatGPT – Software
The US Space Force has paused the use of web-based generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT for its workforce over data security concerns, according to…
Oman Australia Cable gets extra capacity – Telco/ISP
The Oman Australia Cable has been upgraded to boost its speed and cut its latency. The cable, which entered service last year, launched with a…
Metcash de-risks its digital transformation with observability – Software
Metcash has set up a core observability platform that takes the place of up to 20 monitoring tools, and which has helped the company manage…
Optus scopes GenAI additions to ServiceNow – Cloud
Optus is starting to deploy a telecommunications industry-specific module of ServiceNow that it hopes will help it serve its business-to-business (B2B) customers better. Speaking at…