Australia

Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under

Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up

PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 11

Dell fined $6.5M for 'error in pricing process' down under

Blunder made bundled monitors more expensive than standalone purchases

Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 1

Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse

Asia In Brief Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs

Legal14 Aug 2023 | 3

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms

Security02 Aug 2023 | 14

Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use

Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn't say from whom

Legal26 Jul 2023 | 9

Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher

Probably not aliens, maybe

Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 49

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

Report on 'Robodebt' scheme calls for major reforms, plus review of Feds' automation, data-sharing

Software07 Jul 2023 | 46

'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter

Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines

Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101

Data leak at major law firm sets Australia's government and elites scrambling

BlackCat attack sparks injunction preventing coverage of purloined docs

Security20 Jun 2023 | 24

Australia to phase out checks by 2030

Bouncing them all – starting with government – but cash gets to stick around

Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 123

Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts

Promoted bundled monitors are bargains, but actually sold them for above regular prices

Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 12

Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling

Commanders in the field persuaded to give up, let their guard down, run around and desert their posts

Security05 Jun 2023 | 10

Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny

And, ahem, other publishers

Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you

Legal31 May 2023 | 29

One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away

Software22 May 2023 | 49

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation

Legal17 May 2023 | 59

Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak

Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write

Legal15 May 2023 | 3

China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek

Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more

Science08 May 2023 | 25

Chinese scientists calculate the Milky Way's mass as 805 billion times that of our Sun

Asia In Brief ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more

Security24 Apr 2023 | 12

Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch

A rather nice beach in Australia now briefly hosted an unusual feature

Patches18 Apr 2023 | 49

As defense tech goes commercial, does national security miss out?

Investors and educators called on to think more broadly at think tank event

Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 14

Bank rewrote ads for infosec jobs to stop scaring away women

Blokes happily bluffed; women played it by the book, leaving the bank struggling to hire

Security04 Apr 2023 | 111

Australia takes its turn to kick TikTok off government kit

Even a politician who visited China last week has binned the app

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 6

Australian bank stops handling cash at the counter in some branches

Crikey! Get those banknotes to an ATM, mate!

Software04 Apr 2023 | 40

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 4

Aussie tech worker payroll scheme operators found guilty of tax fraud

Contractors left hanging while principals splurged on luxury goods

Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 19

Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth

Asia in brief PLUS: Australia to appoint cyber-coordinator; FTX Japan resumes operations; India's PC market bucks trend with growth; and more

Off-Prem27 Feb 2023 | 29

Toshiba COO dumped over entertainment expenses scandal

Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese province to buy four million servers; Google Cloud's nine-day APAC network glitch; and more

Legal19 Feb 2023 | 1

Australia gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

The usual suspects - Hikvision and Dahua - named as a risk to national security, prompting the usual denials

Security10 Feb 2023 | 37

Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

Asia In Brief PLUS: India is the new China for Apple; Sushi licking vid scandalizes Japan; Chinese spy balloon shot down; India's new Amazon tax

Legal05 Feb 2023 | 40

China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis

Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more

On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6

India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship

Asia In Brief PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more

Security23 Jan 2023 | 2

Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses

Analysis 4,000km extension cords are hard to build

On-Prem22 Jan 2023 | 64

Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

Hey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature?

Offbeat19 Jan 2023 | 69

Devil's lettuce: Toxic weed harvested with baby spinach causing delirium in Australia

Salads recalled after consumers report hallucinations, dilated pupils, and worse

Offbeat19 Dec 2022 | 22

Toshiba breaks its silence on sales rumors, to quash them

Asia In Brief PLUS: FTX may be sold in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time

Legal18 Dec 2022 |

Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints

Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator

Security16 Dec 2022 | 17

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 | 31

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 | 13

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 | 11

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