Australia raps telcos for sending through bulk SMS that contain scam messagesFive telcos have been called out for breaching the country's anti-scam and public safety rules.February 19, 2024 by Eileen Yu in Security
Australia slams Twitter (now X) for 80% cut in trust and safety engineersAustralia's eSafety Commissioner charges the social platform with an increasing failure to police online hate.January 12, 2024 by Eileen Yu in Security
Australia directs businesses to apply critical security patches fasterAustralia's defense intelligence agency has updated its cyber risk mitigation guidelines for businesses, making changes in several areas including timeline for applying critical patches and limits to admin privileges.November 27, 2023 by Eileen Yu in Security
Australian man given two-year jail sentence for $69K phishing scamsSydney Local Court dishes out a jail term totalling 32 months to a man who stole more than AU$100,000 ($69,751) in an SMS phishing scam involving 450 victims.January 25, 2023 by Eileen Yu in Security
Australia throws out Telstra, TPG network-sharing dealNation's competition watchdog says the two telcos' pact to share network infrastructures in some parts of Australia will likely lead to less competition and leave mobile users worse off--a point which TPG has rebuffed.December 21, 2022 by Eileen Yu in Mobile Carriers
Australia beefs up scrutiny of Medibank following data breachFinancial services regulator says it has "intensified" its supervision of Medibank following a data breach that impacted 9.7 million customers and believed to be the work of Russian hackers.November 28, 2022 by Eileen Yu in Security
Misinformation needs tackling and it would help if politicians stopped muddying the waterPoliticians lie, everyone knows it, but when the concept in question is how democracy works, it's a serious matter.May 22, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security
Swoop Aero gets green light from Australian aviation authority for drone centreEach pilot will be able to remotely operate five drones simultaneously, but Swoop Aero wants to bump that number up to 30 in the coming months.May 18, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Delivery Drones
WA Health: No breaches of unencrypted COVID data means well managed and secure systemWestern Australia's unified COVID system had no encryption in production or adequate monitoring of its logs, the WA Office of the Auditor-General has found.May 17, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security
Labor makes AU$1 billion election promise to support local industriesBuilding new capabilities in transport, defence, resources, agriculture and food processing, medical science, renewables and low emissions technologies manufacturing are on the cards for the Opposition party.May 15, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Innovation
Withheld information sees Senate committee push for robo-debt Royal CommissionThe committee believes a Royal Commission will be the only way to fully understand how the robo-debt scheme went so wrong.May 12, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Innovation
Morrison wants to develop a national plan to address local chip shortageAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans to invest AU$15 million to support supply chain monitoring.May 12, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Innovation