Melbourne-based Oakton has picked up a four-year deal to design and manage a new Document Verification Service (DVS) for the Attorney-General's Department. [ + ]

Server virtualisation is now mainstream in Australia and New Zealand, with more than 80% of server operating systems running as virtualised machines, according to Gartner. But there are still some workloads that can cause problems to the unprepared when they are virtualised, and uncooperative software vendors don't make life any easier. [ + ]

New changes to Australia's Privacy Act which come into effect this month could catch up to three in five Australian organisations unprepared, and leave them liable to penalties. [ + ]

Domain registrar Melbourne IT has entered into an agreement to purchase Netregistry Group in a deal worth $50.4 million. [ + ]

Hundreds of millions of usernames and passwords are being sold on the black market, and security experts agree that in the wrong hands, stolen passwords can be more damaging than stolen credit card numbers. [ + ]

Nominations are open for the 2014 ACOMMS Australian telecom industry awards. [ + ]

Huawei has named James Zhao as the new CEO of Huawei Australia. [ + ]

A malware attack on enterprises occurred once every 1.5 seconds in 2013, and there were command and control servers in nearly every country worldwide, according to FireEye. [ + ]

The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union has accused the Coalition of wasting time and money with a planned trial of using overhead electricity infrastructure for the NBN rollout in Tasmania. [ + ]

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) yesterday voted to move from a separate board and council structure to having only a single board of directors. [ + ]

Android appears to have emerged as the platform of choice for mobile malware authors, accounting for more than 96% of all infections traced by FortiGuard Labs during 2013. [ + ]

AAPT CEO David Yuile will leave the company this Friday, the same day that the sale of AAPT to TPG is finalised. [ + ]

As business intelligence tools are becoming more popular, vendors are offering them in different forms, on different devices and through different models. [ + ]

Former RMIT student James Downing has developed Pocket Rice, a mobile app designed to tackle world hunger through trivia. [ + ]

Telecom New Zealand will change its name to Spark in a rebranding exercise that will also cover the company's Gen-i and Telecom Digital Ventures units. [ + ]