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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Telstra achieved a 0.8% increase in profit and 9.1% growth in revenue for the first half of FY2016, despite stricter competition in the fixed and mobile markets. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Stolen Netflix credentials are selling for just 35 cents, 1.125 Tbps optical data rate achieved, and ACCC issues warning over romance scams. [ + ]

Adelaide Festival Centre has engaged Optus Business to migrate its existing IT infrastructure to a hybrid cloud platform based on Microsoft Azure. [ + ]

There have been nearly 9000 .sydney domain names registered since its launch one year ago, and registrar Neustar is processing around 900,000 DNS queries for .sydney domains per day. [ + ]

The AIIA is inviting nominations from across all sectors of Australian innovation for the 2016 iAwards. [ + ]

Cybersecurity experts have gathered at the ANU for a conference aimed at exploring the future of the internet and the threats nation state policies pose to its fundamental freedom and openness. [ + ]

While ANZ business leaders overwhelmingly believe that technology-enabled collaboration is key to competitiveness and can transform their workplace, only one in five believe their current tools are optimal. [ + ]

Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple needed an IT upgrade to help establish its tertiary education facility and stay connected with the Buddhist order's worldwide network. [ + ]

ACMA and New Zealand's NZDIA have expanded their collaboration to tackle spam, malware and phishing scams to cover wider sharing of information and tools. [ + ]

Cisco plans to acquire Jasper Technologies for about $1.98 billion, almost 1000 jobs to go in Autodesk restructure, and Palo Alto reveals a Trojan that can spy on Skype users. [ + ]