Slack plug-and-play tools accelerate automation – Partner Content
As an organisation, Slack has always been on the lookout for the best ways to accelerate innovation and collaboration. Initially, it focused on the developer…
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Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre restructured – Strategy – Security
The government’s Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre ended 2022 with an organisational and executive restructure. CISC head Hamish Hansford wrote in the organisation’s January newsletter [pdf] that…
Flying Doctor takes on Starlink for regional access – Telco/ISP
The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Queensland has directly partnered with Starlink to deploy a three-site regional satellite service to remote areas. The RFDS Queensland…
Meta’s WhatsApp fined 5.5 million euro by privacy regulator – Strategy
Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros (A$8.6 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead EU privacy regulator, for an…
Digital platforms warned: tackle disinformation or face regulation – Strategy
If major digital platforms don’t deal with harmful online disinformation, they will be made subject to regulation and a mandatory industry code, the federal government has…
GitLab pushes patches for critical bugs – Security
GitLab has published patches to two critical vulnerabilities in the popular Git version control software. As the organisation said in its advisory, the fixes for CVE-2022-41903 and CVE-2022-23521 have already…
Oracle issues more than 300 security fixes – Security
Oracle’s first bug-fix release for 2023 includes 71 critical patches out of a total 327 security updates. A large number of the fixes are for…
Home Affairs targets cyber security uplift with ‘Project Eight’ – Security
Home Affairs has set up a dedicated taskforce within its ICT division to assess its cyber security maturity against the Essential Eight model and drive…
NAB pushes forward with stablecoin ambitions – Strategy
NAB will soon begin testing its own stablecoin, AUDN, about a year after it first unveiled plans for the currency. The bank’s executive of innovation…
Domino’s Pizza ends A/NZ CIO search – Strategy – Training & Development
Rod Chapman (Credit: LinkedIn) Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has appointed Rod Chapman as its chief information officer for Australia and New Zealand following a five-month search. …
Microsoft to shed 10,000 jobs – Strategy – Cloud
Microsoft is set to eliminate 10,000 jobs and take a US$1.2 billion (A$1.7 billion) charge to earnings, as its cloud-computing customers reassess their spending and…
Britain’s Royal Mail begins moving some export parcels after cyber incident – Security
Britain’s Royal Mail has begun moving limited volumes of export parcels as it trials “operational workarounds”, after a cyber incident severely disrupted its international export…