iiNet CEO David Buckingham has left following TPG's acquisition of the ISP, attackers have inserted malware on Microsoft's MSN.com web portal, and Google's Chrome has begun ads that use Adobe Flash. [ + ]

CryptoLocker has been one of the biggest crises in IT over the past 18 months, and it hasn't gone away. Here are eight steps you can take to prevent an attack. [ + ]

Myer is using data analytics to address the major challenges facing brick-and-mortar retailers, embarking on a $600m transformation drive focused on productivity, omni-channel retailing and the customer experience. [ + ]

The Australian data centre outsourcing market will grow 18.2% this year, but has reached its peak growth phase and will slow down from 2016, Frost & Sullivan has predicted.

This week: Are you smarter than a supercomputer?, an IT project that needs to go back to school, banking blunders, airline booking bloopers, and it's time to quit your factory job. [ + ]

ANZ Bank will deploy technology from IBM and form a joint innovation lab with the technology company as part of a project to improve productivity, innovation and customer insight. [ + ]

Every day there are innovations in software and hardware, but more innovation is needed when it comes to finding better ways of using the technology we already have access to, says Matt Smith. [ + ]

Educating people about security and making sure that those ideas stick is an involved process that will differ by industry, company and roles, and how staff interact with IT. [ + ]

With Apple devices widely used within the enterprise, poor device management and security processes for the devices are exposing companies to huge liabilities, according to Centrify. [ + ]

As the storage debate continues, Michael Porfirio, Director of Systems Engineering, Commvault ANZ, explains why companies need to move away from tape storage. [ + ]

Windows 10 is off to a flying start — the OS has so far been deployed in over 75 million devices across nearly every country on Earth, according to Microsoft statistics. [ + ]

There are four important reasons to consider flash storage over the traditional disk-based approach, and they are cost, capacity, simplification and flexibility, writes EMC's Darren McCullum. [ + ]

$15bn more needed to build the nbn, GST for online purchases under $1K, and John McAfee blasts the product that bears his name. [ + ]

Australian businesses are coming to recognise the benefits of card and other digital payments for B2B transactions, but adoption remains limited and paper processes are still ubiquitous. [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank launches real-time alerts, Westpac and IBM hold first Payments Hackathon, and Trend Micro adds more fake bank app protection. [ + ]