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New nbn Sky Muster plans offer up to 300GB monthly data
Retailers are now selling new, larger capacity nbn Sky Muster plans, promising "better value broadband for the bush" at peak and off peak times. NBN Co has advised that "Phone and Internet providers...
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IRS awards Equifax US$7.25m no-bid contract after hack
Less than a month after American credit information provider Equifax announced a major data breach, the US Internal Revenue Service has awarded the company a US$7.25 million contract to verify taxpayer...
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ValueAd Marketing cops ACMA warning on SMS distribution
Sydney-based ValueAd Marketing (VAM) has been formally warned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for sending out commercial SMSs without providing sufficient company contact...
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Samsung mixes up reality with 'most immersive Mixed Reality headset in the...
Samsung's HMD Odyssey headset looks a bit like most of the others, with handheld Vive-like controllers, but it won't come to Australia until sometime in 2018. Samsung has gone all out with its new HMD...
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IT pros not confident of Aussie data breach prevention: study
Nearly 70% of Australian IT professionals lack confidence in the ability of their organisations to prevent, detect and resolve data breaches, according to a new research report. And the Ponemon...
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EU orders Amazon to repay US$293m in back taxes
The European Union has told Amazon to repay €250 million (US$293 million) in taxes that it says the company received due to sweetheart deals with Luxembourg. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the...
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Symantec claims email widely used to spread malware
Security firm Symantec claims that exploit kits spread malware to users only at half the rate that email does, with one of every nine email users encountering malware in the first half of 2017. The...
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Even govt MPs are now criticising NBN, says Labor
The Labor Party's communications spokesperson Michelle Rowland has taken aim at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the national broadband network rollout, pointing out that criticism of the network...
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Blockchain firm DigitalX adviser for energy trading company's ICO
Perth-based blockchain solutions firm DigitalX has been appointed as an adviser for the initial coin offering by blockchain energy trading company Power Ledger. This follows a pre-ICO or token...
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Life after Oracle proves more, faster, focused for NetSuite
It's almost one year since Oracle completed its acquisition of cloud-based ERP NetSuite. NetSuite says it is gaining the benefits of Oracle without pitfalls. Re-iterating why Oracle acquired NetSuite,...
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'Attribution' paper may queer the pitch for Kaspersky Labs
Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs may have put itself squarely in the crosshairs of the lobby promoting the theory that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016, by producing a paper...
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IBM to expand digital business with Vivant acquisition
IBM is to acquire the Australian business of innovation consultancy Vivant Digital as part of a move to boost its own digital agency IBM iX. The deal will see Vivant merged into IBM iX, with IBM saying...
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Dimension Data partners on initiative to boost cybersecurity talent pool
Global ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data and Deakin University are partnering in an initiative designed to further build Australia’s cyber security capabilities and boost the stocks of...
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Bitcoin ATM launched in Sydney by BitPOS
Australian blockchain payment company BitPOS has launched its own bitcoin ATM in Sydney powered by its own software platform and the BitPOS ID system. The official launch took place on Wednesday....
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LogMeIn to log into new Sydney AsiaPac HQ in early 2018
Following the merger of LogMeIn and the Citrix GoTo team earlier this year, LogMeIn has signed a lease for its new Asia Pacific HQ at 20 Martin Place, Sydney, with an early 2018 log in date. LogMeIn...
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Privacy groups slam COAG over face recognition database
Major privacy organisations in Australia have condemned the decision by the Council of Australian Governments to agree to hand over drivers' licence photos for the creation of a national facial...
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Kaspersky chief likens latest claim to C-grade film
Kaspersky Lab chief Eugene Kaspersky has labelled the latest published claim, about his company's software being a means of exfiltrating NSA material from the computer of an agency employee, as "the...
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Apple fixes Keychain vulnerability, but only in macOS High Sierra
The zero-day vulnerability in macOS's Keychain has been addressed by Apple, along with some other issues in High Sierra. But other recent versions of the operating system are still vulnerable. Keychain...
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Splunk chief hits back at Ellison over Oracle keynote claims
Enterprise big data aggregator Splunk has taken exception to claims about its product, made by Oracle chief executive and chief technology officer Larry Ellison during a keynote at Oracle World this...
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Ex-NSA man says evidence needed before trashing Kaspersky
An ex-NSA spook, who now runs his own information security company, has taken aim at his fellow professionals over their reactions to a published claim that Kaspersky Lab software was used to...
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