Researcher trawls cybercrime sites, collects billions of stolen credentials
A security researcher who took it upon himself to collect credentials data from locations where cybercriminals had published it discovered nearly 2 billion unique email…
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AFP boosts private cloud with $20m Dell deal
Australian Federal Police has started upgrading its private cloud capacity in anticipation of future system modernisation projects. The AFP told iTnews that its current hardware was…
Westpac factors post-quantum cryptography prep into “secure router” rollout
Westpac will spend the next year deploying new “secure routers” to its 550 branches, with post-quantum cryptography preparations playing a part in its decision. Westpac’s…
Endeavour Group taps Qantas, Catch execs in digital leadership shake-up
Endeavour Group, home to the likes of BWS and Dan Murphy’s, will start the new year with a new-look digital leadership team sourced from Qantas…
ACMA altering outage data handling as public register nears
The communications regulator will “refine” its procedures for handling increasing volumes of carrier outage notification data as it prepares for the arrival of the Triple…
Commercial spyware targeted Samsung Galaxy users for months
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division have documented a previously unknown Android commercial spyware that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung devices…
Nobel winner, HPE and chip industry firms team up to make a practical quantum supercomputer
John M. Martinis, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for breakthroughs in quantum computing, on Monday formed an alliance with…
Kmart Group tests AI in its finance operations
Kmart Group intends to “tread carefully” with AI uses in corporate finance, so far using the technology to improve the way its 450-odd stores get…
David Jones sets target for legacy platform wind-down
David Jones expects to be able to phase out an ageing hodgepodge of legacy integration platforms and consolidate them on Workato’s enterprise iPaaS offering within…
TPG Telecom hopes ‘digital twin’ can predict network, service disaster impacts
TPG Telecom is building a digital twin of its network infrastructure to predict outages and potentially other kinds of essential service breakdowns during disasters, after picking up…
AI providers plug metadata leak that exposed encrypted chat topics
Microsoft has disclosed a new side-channel attack that could let eavesdroppers infer chat topics even through end-to-end encryption. Although there is no indication that the…
Monash University pilots graph database tech to map research ecosystem
Monash University is piloting graph database technology to track relationships between researchers, publications and equipment with the aim of improving return on research investment. Monash…