Date: 23/09/2021
OMIGOD Exploit affects half of Azure
If earthquakes weren’t enough, yet another major security announcement from a major vendor this week. A series of four vulnerabilities involving software agent Open Management Infrastructure has left Microsoft Azure customers exposed to remote code execution. The flaws were reported Tuesday by cloud security vendor Wiz, which previously disclosed the ChaosDB Azure vulnerability last month. […]
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Date: 11/05/2018
NBN pricing changes sees customer activations soar
CRN, 11 May, 2018 – NBN Co saw a surge in activations and revenue for its third quarter, which it attributed to optimisation work on its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network and its changes to wholesale pricing offers. The network provider had a total of 3.7 million activations for the period ending 31 March, up […]
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Date: 11/04/2018
OAIC sees 63 data breach notifications in first six weeks
ITNEWS, 11 April, 2018 – Australian organisations reported 63 data breaches in the first six weeks of mandatory notification rules coming into effect, with human error listed as the most common cause. By contrast, when organisations only had to voluntarily reveal breaches, they only self-reported 114 instances for the entire 2016–17 financial year. The Office […]
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Date: 29/03/2018
ACCC reports better than expected results from broadband tests, but finds some dire downloads
COMPUTERWORLD, 29 March, 2018 – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says that the first report from its broadband monitoring program has revealed better than expected performance from NBN services sold by Australia’s biggest telcos. However, the report also revealed that around 5 per cent of the tests run on NBN services failed to reach […]
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Date: 21/03/2018
ACCC prepares to set auction limits for key 5G spectrum
COMPUTERWORLD, 21 March, 2018 – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has written to industry stakeholders seeking input on allocation limits for the upcoming auction of spectrum in the 3.6GHz band. Spectrum in the 3.6GHz band is expected to play a key role in telcos’ rollout of 5G services in Australia. “The ACCC understands […]
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Date: 01/03/2018
NBN Co to extend 50Mbps promo pricing until October
ITNEWS, 1 March, 2018 – NBN Co will extend its promotional 50Mbps price offer through to the end of October to give retail service providers more time to prepare for the switch to a more permanent price construct. The company this week revealed plans to create a “second promotion period” for its 50Mbps product and […]
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