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. [ + ]

NBN Co has taken the first steps towards transitioning to a multitechnology model for the NBN, including preparing for trials of FTTB and FTTN technologies. [ + ]

IBM Research and contract miner Theiss have announced a collaboration aimed at developing big data tools to improve the efficiency of mining equipment maintenance. [ + ]

Technology and outsourcing services company Capgemini has appointed Depak Nangia to the post of CEO for Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

Huawei and Griffith University have signed an agreement to collaborate on R&D projects and to allow the university's students to participate in Huawei's work experience programs. [ + ]