Category: ITnews

Australian spy chief says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, key facilities
13
Nov
2025

Australian spy chief says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, key facilities

Australia’s spy chief said hackers working for China’s government and military had probed the country’s telecoms network and key infrastructure,…

Australia's space agency launches effort to fight space junk
12
Nov
2025

Australia’s space agency launches effort to fight space junk

Australia’s federal space authority is hoping improve its understanding of space junk to support its ongoing mission to improve the…

Australia Post deploys ThousandEyes across its retail network
12
Nov
2025

Australia Post deploys ThousandEyes across its retail network

Australia Post is “in the early stages” of using Cisco ThousandEyes to improve visibility of network and application performance in…

ACT gov committed to working with NEC to fix transport ticketing
12
Nov
2025

ACT gov committed to working with NEC to fix transport ticketing

The ACT government says it is committed to working with technology supplier NEC to fix problems with its $64 million…

Gov reveals AI plan as Home Affairs pursues industry briefings
12
Nov
2025

Gov reveals AI plan as Home Affairs pursues industry briefings

The federal government has designs on more flavours of generative AI for use in agencies as part of a whole-of…

Researcher trawls cybercrime sites, collects billions of stolen credentials
12
Nov
2025

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…

AFP boosts private cloud with $20m Dell deal
12
Nov
2025

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…

Westpac factors post-quantum cryptography prep into
11
Nov
2025

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…

Endeavour Group taps Qantas, Catch execs in digital leadership shake-up
11
Nov
2025

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…

11
Nov
2025

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…

Commercial spyware targeted Samsung Galaxy users for months
11
Nov
2025

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…

Nobel winner, HPE and chip industry firms team up to make a practical quantum supercomputer
10
Nov
2025

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…