Prevention key benefit of new data breach laws: ACS
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) believes the key benefits of new data breach laws to govern data breaches will be preventative and the real impact will be to mobilise business and government. As...
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Privacy czar says data breach bill will protect citizens
Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has welcomed the passage of a bill on mandatory notification of data breaches by the federal Parliament. The Privacy Amendment...
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Fresh bid to arrest Samsung heir over bribery allegations
Special prosecutors in South Korea are renewing their efforts to obtain an arrest warrant for the defacto leader of the Samsung Group on alleged bribery charges in an influence-peddling scandal. The...
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Symantec enterprise protection for 'Gen Cloud'
Symantec has released its new enterprise grade protection for the new Cloud Generation, integrating multiple protections for public and hybrid cloud users – extending the continuum it says. Symantec...
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Messaging app Signal adds encrypted video calls
The messaging app Signal, which has a good record on the privacy front, has added encrypted video calls as a new feature in its latest beta release. Noted cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike, the head of...
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New consumer-based 'disruptor app' Rack launches
A number of AFL players have thrown their weight and money behind a new shopping app, which is claimed to be a market disrupting application for consumers. Entrepreneurs and former baggage handlers for...
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GetUp says govt should stop harassing people over 'debts'
The activist group GetUp claims Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government is shaking down ordinary people, often for debts they neither owe nor can effectively challenge. The group's national...
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Spirit casts doubts on Morrow's fast Internet claims
Broadband provider Spirit Telecom has countered the claims made by the NBN Co chief Bill Morrow that Australians are not interested in taking up fast Internet connections. Spirit offers only...
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Group hopes Westpac video will help fight coal mine
SumOfUs is depending on the power of YouTube to create opposition to Westpac's decision to fund the Carmichael coal mine despite fears expressed by environmental groups that it will affect the Great...
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Morrow admits NBN can’t deliver affordable superfast broadband
NBN Co chief Bill Morrow has admitted that the National Broadband Network cannot deliver an affordably priced superfast broadband product to Australians. However, he claims we don't need it anyway and...
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More angst for ICT execs as weak jobs demand spills over from 2016
There's more misery ahead for ICT executives, with the weakening job market for the technology high flyers at the end of last year carrying over into this year. The extent of the crisis is evident with...
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Samsung heir arrested over bribery allegations
Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong has been formally arrested on charges of bribery in connection with an influence-peddling scandal that has led to a vote for impeachment of the country's president, Park...
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Libs, Labor silent as Morrow spins his web
If the National Broadband Network really is Australia's biggest ever infrastructure project and vitally important to the nation's future, one would expect the minister in charge and his opposition...
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Apple’s developer conference, WWDC, in San Jose 5 to 9 June 2017
Returning to its roots is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which is going back to San Jose over its home of San Francisco of the past few years, with 2017 set to be the biggest yet. At Apple's...
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Windows 10 take-up slows after forced July upgrades
In the days leading up to 29 July 2016, PCs running Windows were frantically updated to Windows 10, some by accident, others by design. But since then the pace has fallen off and even though the total...
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No certainty of cheaper broadband with NBN price revamp
There’s no certainty the costs to consumers of buying a broadband service delivered over the National Broadband Network will go down by mid-year. This is despite NBN Co’s announcement today that the...
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Carbon Black only vendor to secure perfect prevention score in NSS Labs’...
Carbon Black, a leader in next-generation endpoint security, has announced it achieved 100% block rate and 100% total coverage score in NSS Labs’ Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Test, securing the...
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Carriers group asks govt to write down NBN investment
The spat over whether prices charged by NBN Co make gigabit connections unaffordable or whether Australians were disinterested in super-fast broadband has been termed "a silly circular argument" by the...
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New NBN pricing likely to favour big players, says IA
The peak body that represents Australian Internet users has expressed concern that the new wholesale pricing mechanism announced by NBN Co on Friday will entrench big telecommunications companies'...
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Assange may be evicted if Ecuador ruling party loses
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange may find himself expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy where he has been taking refuge for more than four years if there is a change of government in that country's...
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