Australia’s disastrous roll-out of the high speed National Broadband Network (NBN) has continued to make global headlines in the last 24 hours – including coverage in the New York Times – and for all the wrong reasons. According to this story on TechGuide, not only does Australia rank well behind the US, Western Europe, Japan…
Are you one of 6 million Australians who didn’t know it will be mandatory for you to switch to the new NBN network? According to a new survey from Finder.com.au and a story published on msn.com here, more than one in three Australians (37%) have no plans to switch to the NBN or don’t know…
An IT worker has been paid US$650 by Microsoft after he threatened to sue the company following a forced upgrade to his grandfather’s computer that was running Windows 7. In 2013, Jesse Worley had built a machine running Windows 7 for his granddad but made it look like a Windows XP interface because his relative…
Australia’s new mandatory data breach disclosure law is attracting a lot of attention, and a lot of criticism. But it will also have some interesting – and perhaps unintended – consequences. Most commentary has been about the fact that it will give Australia some of the strictest disclosure rules in the world. That is a…
The agencies want tech vendors to retain access to encrypted data to comply with court-ordered warrants. U.S. tech companies should retain access to the encrypted information of their customers, instead of providing end-to-end encryption, in order to give police the tools they need to investigate crimes and terrorist activity, two senior law enforcement officials said.…
Without customer’s knowledge. Optus has admitted to handing over its customer’s phone numbers to certain third-party websites accessed by the user. As first flagged by a user on telco forum Whirlpool, when a user browses certain websites, Optus provides the customer’s mobile phone number to the website operator where a “commercial relationship” exists. The practice,…
HP researchers release exploit code after Microsoft declines to issue patch. HP researchers have published details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a number of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser which allow attackers to bypass a key exploit mitigation. The researchers – part of HP’s zero-day initiative team – have a policy to…
Content owners allowed to apply to take down copyright infringing sites. The Australian Senate today voted through legislation which allows rights holders to apply to a court to block overseas websites facilitating copyright infringment. The legislation passed despite strong opposition from the Australian Greens and a number of independent and minor party MPs, the telecommunications industry, technology companies…
