Sydney man jailed for SMS phishing scam – Security
A man charged with scamming customers of Telstra, CBA and NAB has been jailed for two years and eight months. The Australian Federal Police said the…
Category: ITnews
Amazon, Microsoft results to highlight softening cloud business – Strategy – Cloud
Slower cloud spending by inflation-hit businesses is expected to stall the sales momentum at Amazon and Microsoft and add to the troubles of the sector…
International ransomware-fighting group gets to work – Strategy – Security
Cyber security minister Clare O’Neil An international effort to counter ransomware formally commenced operations yesterday. The International Counter Ransomware Task Force (ICRTF) is part of…
Jim’s Group branches out with services app – Strategy – Telco/ISP
National home services franchise Jim’s Group has embarked on a significant IT infrastructure transformation to upgrade job bookings and management and improve its customer and…
Western Digital, Kioxia in advanced talks for merger – Hardware
Memory chip makers Western Digital and Japan’s Kioxia are in advanced talks for a possible merger which will involve a dual-listing, Bloomberg News reported. A…
Australia Post experiences online services outage – Software
Australia Post customers spent several hours on Monday unable to access MyPost Business and MyPost Consumer online services or track parcels due to a “technical…
Defence seeks quantum comms research – Networking
The Department of Defence is looking for researchers to work on quantum communication technologies. In a tender published earlier this month, the department said it’s…
Suncorp Group rolling out 13,600 Surface devices – Cloud – Hardware
Suncorp general manager of IT infrastructure Charles Pizzato. Suncorp Group has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft covering its ongoing cloud migration as well…
Clarence City Council looks for new CIO – Strategy – Training & Development
Vivien Patterson. LinkedIn Tasmania’s Clarence City Council is searching for a new chief information officer as incumbent Vivien Patterson prepares to leave in March. The…
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 go far enough and that…
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 December incident. Most of the…
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 said the new investment will…