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ACMA outlines mobile broadband spectrum plan
Communications regulator ACMA has outlined its latest strategy to address the ongoing surge in demand for mobile broadband capacity. [ + ]
Government reviewing Australia's space legislation
The government is conducting a review aimed at ensuring Australia's space legislation is up to date and can help stimulate the industry, and has now opened the review up to public consultation. [ + ]
Researchers find critical flaw in Microsoft's EMET toolkit
Microsoft has had to patch its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, designed to make user-mode programs more secure, after FireEye researchers found a simple method to disable it completely. [ + ]
Mobile payment adoption tipped to surge
The global user base for mobile payments, including mobile commerce and money transfers, is set to climb to 4.77bn in 2019 from 689.9m in 2014, Ovum has predicted. [ + ]
Changing mindsets the key to competitiveness
With big data analytics, the trick is to persuade as well as predict, in order to deliver real-time, holistic intelligence that can influence a customer's next action. [ + ]
Cloud computing for all
The rise of the cloud has seen a variety of solutions developed to suit the needs of many different kinds of enterprises. [ + ]
Australia third most targeted by banking botnets
Australia was the country third most targeted by banking botnets in 2015, with criminals attacking more than 95 financial institutions, Dell research shows. [ + ]
Cybercrime got more sophisticated in 2015
Cybercrime exploit kits became more adept at avoiding detection by security systems in 2015, while perpetrators increasingly took to using encryption for the same purposes, research shows. [ + ]
Business intelligence in the middle
Much of the trouble that Australian organisations are having with business intelligence comes down simply to a lack of skills in the workforce, analysts say. [ + ]
Optus trials 4.5G as Telstra prepares to test 5G
Optus and Telstra are both taking steps to prepare their networks for the next evolutions of wireless technology, with Optus trialling 4.5G technology and Telstra revealing plans to trial 5G at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [ + ]
Govt opens innovation Landing Pad in San Francisco
The Australian Government has opened a Landing Pad in San Francisco, one of five planned facilities designed to help Australian technology start-ups crack the global market. [ + ]
Researchers uncover weaknesses in email security
A study of traffic across the internet conducted by researchers from Australia, Germany and the US has provided evidence for the first time of the vulnerability of email traffic. [ + ]
Australian IT leaders take email threats seriously
Recent surveys show that Australian security professionals take email threats more seriously than their peers in other markets, but C-suite executives need to be more involved in security planning. [ + ]
Site blocking ineffective at stopping piracy: IA
After Village Roadshow filed legal action seeking to have an alleged piracy site blocked under new site blocking rules, IA has argued that this and other government approaches to stopping piracy are ineffective. [ + ]
Netflix accounts sell for $0.35; Data speed record set; Aussies lose $23m in dating scams
Stolen Netflix credentials are selling for just 35 cents, 1.125 Tbps optical data rate achieved, and ACCC issues warning over romance scams. [ + ]
