Mobile EFTPOS pioneers launch authentication service.
As it launches its highly secure VeroCard multi-factor authentication device after years of development, Australian cybersecurity firm VeroGuard Systems is on track to create hundreds of new…

Security device promises jobs boom

Financial services companies exposed by home working.
Despite massive security expenditure, the shift to home working has left financial services companies exposed with poorly managed passwords and unmanaged file systems that give every employee…

Cyber crime bonanza in the cloud

ABS says data is “less relevant” now.
Widespread use of mobile applications has made Internet access so pervasive that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will remove a longstanding question about Internet usage from the 2021 Census.
The…

Census 2021 won’t track Internet use

Australian Enrico Palermo will be based in Adelaide from January 2021.
Even as private-sector space flight venture SpaceX made history by successfully launching four astronauts into space for the first time, Australia’s emerging space industry was…

Virgin Galactic exec to head Australian Space Agency

Fully 40% of Australian small businesses spent less than $1,000 protecting their systems and data from cybersecurity attacks last year—and 19% spent nothing at all—according to a new university-led survey of companies with fewer than 20…

Australian small businesses struggle with cybersecurity

A major restructure is on the cards.
Telstra could let other mobile operators access its nationwide tower network, potentially accelerating Australia’s 5G rollouts as a proposed major restructuring prepares the company to wash its hands clean of the…

Telstra mulls sharing tower network to drive 5G

Developers can build one app to run on any Apple device.
Whether or not real-world benchmarks meet the hype of its latest launch, Apple’s release of laptop and desktop systems based on its M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) marks the beginning of a major…

Apple’s next-gen Macs also run iPhone apps

Govt says 2021 will be the ‘year of 5G’.
Joe Biden’s election as the next US president may have sparked fierce debate over the depth of Australia’s commitment to climate change, but the promise of hundreds of billions of dollars in US innovation…

Spectrum auctions to fire 5G starting gun

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have had a chilling effect on merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, but a mid-year resurgence promises a much more buoyant 2021 as companies regain their appetite for growth – and embrace cloud-based…

As M&A activity recovers, cloud-based data migration will be crucial

Homeland Security confident it was not.
The world may be on tenterhooks as tally machines work overtime to process a record number of ballots and legal challenges threaten to delay the final result, but early signs suggest that proactivity has…

So, was the US election hacked?

Representation of women in Australia’s cybersecurity industry may be increasing from a low baseline, but boosting the overall diversity of the workforce—including but not limited to women—remains a key challenge as grassroots initiatives work to…

Increasing diversity can plug Australia’s cyberskills gap

Finds overbroad law intrudes on law-abiding Australians.
Privacy advocates are pushing for rapid implementation of 22 recommendations that will, they say, prevent widespread access to sensitive telecommunications data stored under Australia’s…

Review slams ‘dangerous’ metadata loophole

Even small businesses must plan for disruption now.
Ransomware and other cyber security attacks will continue to dog Australia’s financial and business recovery from this year’s COVID-19 pandemic.
The warning came as a panel of experts, led by…

What would we do if Australia was under cyber attack?

Partner content funded by Juniper.The Archdiocese of Brisbane and its Centacare agency are using AI-based device management to modernise Wi-Fi management at hundreds of group homes, childcare facilities and offices in Queensland.Copyright ©…

Archdiocese of Brisbane streamlines networking at 300 sites

Female scientists are being paid less than their male peers, have fewer opportunities for career advancement and are more likely to be considering leaving the industry as a result, according to a new industry employment report that could damage…

Women more likely to abandon science careers

An ambitious fibre-optic network rollout is creating headaches for the national broadband network (NBN)’s prospects among Adelaide businesses, with 1,000 CBD buildings now able to access 10Gbps interconnections via the TPG Telecom-driven Ten Gigabit…

Adelaide’s 10Gbps network an NBN headache

Streaming movies and TV shows in 4K would be a thing of the past for regional national broadband network (NBN) users, if NBN Co progresses a proposed application ban designed to fight “unfair” network usage that has seen a few customers consuming so…

NBN Co considers throttling fixed wireless

Who’s got time to wait for the telcos?
Australia’s 5G rollout is likely to be driven as much by private enterprise as it is by telecommunications carriers, with a major construction company announcing it has seen 20 times faster mobile performance…

Businesses building their own 5G

Australians reported more phishing scams in September 2020 than in any month since the ACCC ScamWatch program began collecting data in 2017, heightening concerns that the combination of coronavirus lockdown fatigue—and a hoped-for resurgence of…

Security gaps could dim Australian retailers’ Christmas shopping season

Machine vision verifies documents in seconds, not days.
An AI-based document-processing solution has proved invaluable to helping Services Australia keep up with the administrative work stemming from surging demand for government benefit programs…