Cyber strategy has cost Home Affairs $2.8 million so far – Strategy – Security
The government’s 2023-2030 Australian cyber security strategy has so far set the government back just over $2.8 million, with no strategy yet to show for…
Category: ITnews
Emergency patch for ColdFusion zero-day – Security
Adobe has issued an out-of-cycle software patch for its ColdFusion software after security researchers found a previous patch was incomplete, and being exploited in the…
Endeavour Group seeks national coordination of ‘harm minimisation’ tech at gambling venues – Software – Security
Endeavour Group has called on state and territory governments to coordinate a national approach to using technology – facial recognition or otherwise – to combat…
Telstra proposes to cut around 472 roles – Telco/ISP
Telstra is proposing a “net reduction” of 472 roles, which would be achieved by making a higher number of individuals redundant but offsetting some of…
CBA and NAB take aim at big tech – Finance
The chief executives of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and NAB have called out technology giants for anti-competitive behaviour during a two day senate hearing. All…
SAP lowers cloud revenue forecast – Software – Cloud
SAP trimmed its full-year outlook for key cloud sales due to lower-than-anticipated transactional revenues in the second quarter. “We’ve seen fewer public sector customers in…
North Korea hackers breached US IT company – Security
A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target cryptocurrency companies, the firm and…
Australia Post uses computer vision for site safety – Cloud
Australia Post is using computer vision technology to detect team members moving into “unsafe zones” at facilities as a site safety initiative. Executive general manager…
Amazon builds US$120 million satellite processing hub – Telco/ISP
Amazon is building a US$120 million ($178 million) processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites.…
Qld gov to create its own quantum and advanced tech strategy – Strategy
The Queensland Government has plans to develop a quantum and advanced technologies strategy in partnership with universities and industry as it tries to keep future…
Australia Post looks to graph database, digital twin to improve delivery – Cloud – Software
Australia Post has reinvigorated plans for a digital twin of its delivery network, revealing an investment in graph database technology to make more predictive and…
Atlassian patches vulnerabilities in server, data centre products – Security
Atlassian last Friday announced fixes for three remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. The three bugs are rated as high rather than critical severity, since they’re…