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, warning against the risk of…
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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 nation’s extraterrestrial satellite communication capabilities. The…
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 its retail footprint of “well…
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 MyWay+ cashless public transport ticketing…
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 government plan timed to match…
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…
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…