Australia

Japan, Australia to bolster cyber-defenses, maybe offensive capacity too

Asia In Brief FTX Japan payment promise evaporates; VR/AR to boom across APAC; Google wins privacy case

Security11 Dec 2022 | 2

Uber fined $14m for lying to get customers to ditch cabs

Australian app let you book actual taxis – at inflated prices

Personal Tech07 Dec 2022 | 21

Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan

Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia?

Legal06 Dec 2022 | 72

Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences

World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024

Science05 Dec 2022 | 49

Microsoft hikes prices in India by up to eleven percent

Asia In Brief PLUS: Eight million more outsourced jobs for India; Australia warns on IoT shoe risks; Equinix enters Malaysia

Software04 Dec 2022 | 4

Australian exchange pauses project to move stocks to blockchain

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart

Software17 Nov 2022 | 33

Australia to 'stand up and punch back' against cyber crims

Creates 100-strong squad comprising cops and spooks with remit to disrupt ransomware ops

Cyber-crime14 Nov 2022 | 27

Australia blames Russia for harboring health insurance hackers

Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details

Cyber-crime11 Nov 2022 | 21

Breached health insurer won't pay ransom to protect customers, warns of more attacks

Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound

Cyber-crime07 Nov 2022 | 14

Dell hit with Oz court case for misleading prices on monitors

Watchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP

Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 4

You fire 'em, we'll hire 'em: Atlassian sees tech layoffs as HR heaven

But investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook

Off-Prem04 Nov 2022 | 12

China reminds world shock and ore can hurt tech supply chains

Nice chip and EV factories you're building there. Would be a shame if they couldn't get any rare earths to work with

Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 55

Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse

All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed

Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 11

Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more

Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 2

Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward

Updated Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers

Cyber-crime20 Oct 2022 | 12

Optus data breach prompts pincer movement of twin regulatory probes

Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings

Security11 Oct 2022 | 4

Oz Apple Store staff vote to strike for better pay, settled rosters, clean shirts

Some plan to take a whole hour off

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 12

Singtel confirms digital burglary at Dialog subsidiary

Second of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks

Cyber-crime10 Oct 2022 |

Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage

Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts

Edge + IoT30 Sep 2022 | 42

Australia asks FBI to help find attacker who stole data from millions of users

+Comment Apparent perp claims to have deleted swiped info as carrier Optus struggles to get its story straight

Security28 Sep 2022 | 21

Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco

Updated Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?'

Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 14

Australian quantum startup enlists GlobalFoundries to develop mass qubit production

Company claims tech can detect quantum information at room temperature

Systems07 Sep 2022 |

China orders tech companies to 'improve traceability' of users to control 'rumours and false information'

PLUS: Australia mints a physical crypto-coin; Alibaba Cloud claims world's biggest DC; India’s space airbags; and more

Security05 Sep 2022 | 3

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

Payment from Crypto.com was off by five zeroes because bank account number was mistakenly entered

Offbeat31 Aug 2022 | 102

China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government

ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails

Cyber-crime31 Aug 2022 | 7

Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19

A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew

Offbeat19 Aug 2022 | 108

Airbnb turns its anti-partying tech on American lodgers

Looking to book a large house on a weekend? You'll have to clear a few hurdles

Personal Tech17 Aug 2022 | 19

Australian court overturns 'Google is a publisher' decision

Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb

Personal Tech17 Aug 2022 | 43

Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Asia in Brief PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more

Security14 Aug 2022 | 34

Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia

Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'

Legal12 Aug 2022 | 14

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins

Legal12 Aug 2022 | 26

Aussies crowdsource a business case for central bank digital currencies

Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars

Software09 Aug 2022 | 21

India proposes increased power to vet tech mergers

Asia In brief Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; and more

Legal08 Aug 2022 |

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link

Software04 Aug 2022 | 15

Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica

Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia

Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 17

Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales

Asia In Brief PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more

Security01 Aug 2022 | 2

Australia bins $41m app contracted to Accenture

Asia In Brief Plus: Chinese chips supported in key management spec; Singapore/UK digital services pact; Fujitsu's vision for oldies; and more

Software11 Jul 2022 | 7

Samsung fined $14 million for misleading smartphone water resistance claims

Promoted phones as ready for a dunking – forgot to mention known problems with subsequent recharges

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 41

Five Eyes alliance’s top cop says techies are the future of law enforcement

Crims have weaponized tech and certain States let them launder the proceeds

Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 15

Police lab wants your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse

Updated Like the Hotdog, Not Hotdog app but more Kidnapped, Not Kidnapped

AI + ML03 Jun 2022 | 55

Australian digital driving licenses can be defaced in minutes

Brute force attack leaves the license wide open for undetectable alteration, but back end data remains unchanged

Research30 May 2022 | 56

China offering ten nations help to run their cyber-defenses and networks

Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations

Security27 May 2022 | 25

Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report

Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees

Legal06 May 2022 | 19

Epic Games' court dates with Apple and Google pushed into 2024

Judge ponders battle royale between all three to avoid unhelpful overlaps

Legal05 Apr 2022 | 9

Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date

Software28 Mar 2022 | 24

Distributor dumps Kaspersky to show solidarity with Ukraine

Security software vendor saddened but says its channel is holding firm

Security25 Mar 2022 | 33

Meta sued for 'aiding and abetting' crypto scammers

Watchdog claims Facebook parent sat on its hands as fake ads fleeced netizens

Personal Tech18 Mar 2022 | 51

Gov-linked Singaporean services outfit NCS wants to become regional giant

Just splashed $236M on Oz SI, can't quite say how it plans to tackle China

On-Prem09 Mar 2022 |

Alphabet's Wing drone unit inks supermarket delivery deal

Payloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced

Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 30

IBM merges 13 APAC nations into one regional organization

And calls it 'ASEANZK' (gesundheit) to reflect inclusion of Australia, New Zealand, Korea and all of ASEAN

On-Prem17 Feb 2022 | 1

Indonesia's new mega-telco to build 18,000km submarine cable to the US

Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Networks11 Feb 2022 | 6

Swipe left: Snoops use dating apps to hook sources, says Australian Five Eyes boss

Warns that foreign interference needs more attention than terrorism

Security10 Feb 2022 | 14

China tech market growth to slow in 2022, says Forrester

Vietnam, India, Philippines set to outpace Middle Kingdom

Software10 Feb 2022 |

Australian court finds Facebook 'divorced from reality' as it tried to define doing business down under

This one was decided on the way the cookies crumbled

Legal07 Feb 2022 | 29

Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years

Now, don't do a Queensland

Databases04 Feb 2022 | 9

Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish

Video Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain

Science31 Jan 2022 | 44