The second annual ACI Connect event in April will include the inaugural Future Networks Forum, where industry experts will ponder the future of industrial networks in the IoT era. [ + ]

Nearly a third of Android mobile apps access and share private information, but many Australian mobile users are ignorant or unconcerned about the risks, a Symantec survey shows. [ + ]

Organisations can achieve significant savings and dramatically boost efficiency and collaborative effort by upgrading to a unified communications system. We spoke to three that have made the switch. [ + ]

Trend Micro said it has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash, the third such exploit uncovered since Adobe's last Patch Tuesday. [ + ]

IBM rejects reports of job cuts, BMW tackles a flaw that could have allowed hackers to unlock car doors and Australian cyberattacks outed. [ + ]

The frequency and scale of DDoS attacks grew sharply in Q4 as DDoS-for-hire and multivector attacks increased in popularity, an Akamai report shows. [ + ]

Microsoft has revealed plans to start offering its flagship OS as a service, starting with offering Windows 10 for free to users of Windows 7 or newer for the first year after launch. [ + ]

Did flight computers lead to crash?; tax office faces huge IT problem; TAFE teachers criticise IT failure; what to do with your old CRTs; and IT helpdesk funnies. [ + ]

More than 30 new cloud, IT and network service providers have arranged to deploy in ME1, Equinix's first Melbourne data centre. [ + ]

New smart data discovery and analytics tools are taking business intelligence outside of the realm of IT and into the general business, but many self-service BI initiatives have poor governance. [ + ]

Little data may become more valuable to your business than big data. But how do you gather it efficiently and securely, and what should you do with it? [ + ]

The Commonwealth Government will establish a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) within the Department of Communications to deliver government services digitally from "start to finish". [ + ]

NBN Co earmarks first apartment buildings to get its FTTB services, eBay will cut 7% of its workforce in the next couple of months and the UK abandons its investigation into the sale of Autonomy to HP. [ + ]

Australian software consultancy Sixtree has announced that it will stage APIdays, the first Australian conference dedicated to web APIs, next month at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney. [ + ]

How Australian organisations approach the challenges of big data will be key to their success. There are five areas business leaders should watch in 2015, says HP's Dr Roger Kermode. [ + ]