Category: ITnews

Australia, US, UK target Zservers over Lockbit ransomware attacks
11
Feb
2025

Australia, US, UK target Zservers over Lockbit ransomware attacks – Security

The United States joined Australia and Britain in targeting Russia-based Zservers service provider for its role in supporting the Lockbit…

Four Russians arrested in Phobos ransomware crackdown
11
Feb
2025

Four Russians arrested in Phobos ransomware crackdown – Security

Four Russian nationals, who were suspected of deploying a variant of Phobos ransomware to extort payments from people in Europe…

Microsoft to adjust Office-Teams pricing in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine
11
Feb
2025

Microsoft to adjust Office-Teams pricing in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine – Software

Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams…

TPG Telecom recovers after data centre outage
11
Feb
2025

TPG Telecom recovers after data centre outage – Networking – Telco/ISP

TPG Telecom has attributed a widespread outage on Monday evening to a failure of mains and backup power at one…

Salesforce plans US$500m in AI-related investments in Saudi Arabia
11
Feb
2025

Salesforce plans US$500m in AI-related investments in Saudi Arabia – Cloud

Salesforce plans to invest US$500 million ($796.5 million) in Saudi Arabia related to artificial intelligence, as countries compete to secure…

WA Education boosts cyber function
10
Feb
2025

WA Education boosts cyber function – Training & Development – Security

Western Australia’s Department of Education has increased its IT security resourcing with the appointment of Prashant Singh as manager of…

Treasury M365 Copilot review estimates 13-minute efficiency gain needed to justify licence cost
10
Feb
2025

Treasury M365 Copilot review estimates 13-minute efficiency gain needed to justify licence cost – Software

Treasury has estimated that a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence for a “mid-level” government staffer could pay for itself if it…

Australia Post HR transformation leader exits
10
Feb
2025

Australia Post HR transformation leader exits – HR

Australia Post’s head of people services Laura Cheail has left after a decade at the service in a variety of…

Bunnings crunches 10 years of weather data for retail localisation
10
Feb
2025

Bunnings crunches 10 years of weather data for retail localisation – Cloud – Software

Bunnings has analysed a decade’s worth of Australian weather data to help personalise its customer marketing and in-store merchandising efforts….

Sony offers service extension after global PlayStation Plus outage
10
Feb
2025

Sony offers service extension after global PlayStation Plus outage – Networking

Sony said that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a global outage…

Meta preparing for company-wide layoffs
09
Feb
2025

Meta preparing for company-wide layoffs – Training & Development

Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs this week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of…

NAB backs Harness in developer productivity drive
09
Feb
2025

NAB backs Harness in developer productivity drive – Cloud – Software

NAB has lifted the covers on its adoption of Harness CI/CD and GitOps tooling, using it to “remove developer toil”…