Australia

Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials

Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords

Security01 Jul 2024 | 61

Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters

Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia

Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …

Security26 Jun 2024 | 201

Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices

Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons

Security26 Jun 2024 | 24

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach

Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years

Security21 Jun 2024 | 16

Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads

Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches

Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 78

Japan's space junk cleaner hunts down major target

Asia in brief Plus: Australia to age limit social media; Hong Kong's robo-dogs; India's new tech minister

Security17 Jun 2024 | 10

X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up

Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter?

Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 34

Australia drops legal action that aimed to have X take down stabbing vid

Musky network celebrates free speech win ... after not opposing takedown of similar fare

Public Sector05 Jun 2024 | 41

Aussie cops probe MediSecure's 'large-scale ransomware data breach'

Throw another healthcare biz on the barby, mate

Cyber-crime17 May 2024 | 13

A million Australian pubgoers wake up to find personal info listed on leak site

Updated Man arrested and blackmail charges expected after allegations of unpaid contractors and iffy infosec

Security02 May 2024 | 36

Australia to fund $620M quantum computer claimed to be first at 'utility-scale'

PsiQuantum's coming home

Public Sector30 Apr 2024 | 11

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks

Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 108

Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight

+Comment Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties

Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 62

Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court

Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung in 'emergency mode'; Tim Cook's Asian charm tour; APAC AI spend to surge

Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 60

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack

Software18 Apr 2024 | 20

US 'considering' end to Assange prosecution bid

Cryptic Biden hint came ahead of April 16 deadline for next step in extradition case

Security11 Apr 2024 | 88

India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market

Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered

Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 5

Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff

Also down under, researchers find security-cleared workers leaking details of their gigs

Cyber-crime20 Mar 2024 | 26

Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action

Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers

Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 20

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26

Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020

Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87

Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

And accuses a former Australian politician of having 'sold out their country'

Cyber-crime29 Feb 2024 | 17

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

Pair had to dodge croc on trek back to civilization

Bootnotes23 Feb 2024 | 77

Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside

Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary

HPC21 Feb 2024 | 20

Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference

Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful

HPC20 Feb 2024 | 13

Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap

Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers

HPC20 Feb 2024 | 4

A visa to fill Australia's empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value

Application process gets a massive overhaul

Public Sector19 Feb 2024 | 44

India buys a third of the world's wearable devices

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens

Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2

Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam

$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds

Cyber-crime14 Feb 2024 | 3

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce

Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit

AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40

An established AI player is in nasty trouble – in this market? What? Why?

Australia's Appen boasted of clients including Amazon and Microsoft. Then work dried up, Gen AI arrived, and Google bailed

AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 8

Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer

'Aleksandr Ermakov' isn't allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak

Cyber-crime23 Jan 2024 | 9

Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable

Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific

Networks12 Jan 2024 | 10

Court hearings become ransomware concern after justice system breach

From legal proceedings to potential YouTube fodder

Cyber-crime02 Jan 2024 | 6

Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart

Server tanks can do more than heat water – they can also build into resilient many-site clouds

On-Prem18 Dec 2023 | 16

Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs

Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully

Security07 Dec 2023 | 21

China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned

Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI

Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 3

X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club

Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum

Legal28 Nov 2023 | 61

Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns

They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks

On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin

Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48

Australia declares 'nationally significant cyber incident' after port attack

Asia in brief PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more

Security13 Nov 2023 | 3

Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected

Communication minister advises businesses to “keep receipts”

Networks08 Nov 2023 | 36

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit

Software31 Oct 2023 | 34

US, Australia solicit Google's help with Pacific subsea cable project

$65 million cable project to connect US to Australia by way of Fiji and French Polynesia

Networks26 Oct 2023 | 3

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18

Canva creates $200M kitty to pay creators for stuff they feed its design-bot

Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam

AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 7

Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei

Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel

Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2

UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines

Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project

Public Sector03 Oct 2023 | 23

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed

Security21 Sep 2023 | 98

Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores

Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty

Security19 Sep 2023 | 26

China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses

Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal

Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7

DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel

Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps

Legal07 Sep 2023 | 3

Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage

Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind

Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32

Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die

Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones

On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3