Government: AU

When it comes with working with computers, the Australian government can count the 2016 Census failure, robodebt, and COVIDSafe app as lessons not to repeat.

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Australian man given two-year jail sentence for $69K phishing scams

Sydney 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 deal

Nation'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 breach

Financial 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 water

Politicians 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 centre

Each 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 system

Western 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 industries

Building 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 Commission

The 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 shortage

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans to invest AU$15 million to support supply chain monitoring.

May 12, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Innovation

Thoughtworks to develop Australia's electronic birth certificate

The NSW government has charged Thoughtworks with the responsibility to deliver a digital birth certificate that can operate across multiple platforms.

May 12, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Innovation

Five Eyes pin Russia for pre-Ukraine invasion attack on Viasat

Western intelligence blames Russia for taking down Viasat, as well as deploying malware and defacing Ukrainian websites.

May 10, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security

Apple and Google hit back at ACCC's proposal for major antitrust reforms

Tech giants have given their two cents on what they think about the Australian consumer watchdog's plans to make legislative changes targeted at big tech issues.

May 8, 2022 by Aimee Chanthadavong in Services & Software

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Australian man given two-year jail sentence for $69K phishing scams

Australia throws out Telstra, TPG network-sharing deal

Australia beefs up scrutiny of Medibank following data breach

Misinformation needs tackling and it would help if politicians stopped muddying the water

Swoop Aero gets green light from Australian aviation authority for drone centre

WA Health: No breaches of unencrypted COVID data means well managed and secure system

Labor makes AU$1 billion election promise to support local industries

Withheld information sees Senate committee push for robo-debt Royal Commission

Morrison wants to develop a national plan to address local chip shortage

Thoughtworks to develop Australia's electronic birth certificate

Five Eyes pin Russia for pre-Ukraine invasion attack on Viasat

Apple and Google hit back at ACCC's proposal for major antitrust reforms