The Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection has leaked the personal details of about 10,000 asylum seekers in detention, potentially endangering lives. Two investigations have been launched into the leak. [ + ]

Tigerspike has developed a mobile framework to improve the registration and distribution processes of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP). [ + ]

Telstra's advertising and directories arm, Sensis, revealed this week that it will chop 800 jobs around Australia, sparking fiery responses from the unions. [ + ]

Akamai has acquired DDoS specialist Prolexic for about $411 million (US$370 million), as part of plans to offer security products designed to protect enterprises at both the web and application layers. [ + ]

Three emerging big data trends promise to improve the business case for Australian enterprises' adoption of the technology, according to Deloitte. [ + ]

Popular crowd-funding website Kickstarter has been hacked, with attackers accessing the data - including mailing addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords - of several of the website's users. [ + ]

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand has won a three-year, $170 million extension to its distributed computing contract with the Department of Defence. [ + ]

How hard are security companies expected to try to contact vendors before publishing reports that may cast their products in a bad light? The controversy ensuing from a report published last week by Kaspersky Lab revolves around this question. [ + ]

Access control solutions will continue to evolve in the coming year, including the increasing prevalence of multifactor authentication, mobile access control and NFC-based authentication. [ + ]

IT recruitment is expected to increase overall in Australia in 2014 according to a Robert Walters report, with significant variation expected between the jobs markets of different states. [ + ]

Around 35% of businesses polled in a survey of eight markets including Australia have adopted enterprise-wide encryption in response to consumer concerns and cyber threats. [ + ]

NBN Co's head of construction, Richard Thorpe, is leaving the organisation. Thorpe will be the third construction head to leave the company in three years. [ + ]

Security researchers have uncovered a potentially nation-state-sponsored, Spanish language-based cyber threat that has been active since at least 2007. [ + ]

Dimension Data will sell its Express Data and Express Online businesses - its only distribution assets - to hardware distributor Dicker Data. [ + ]

Cyber threats including phishing attacks and mobile malware evolved in 2013, placing Australian businesses and consumers at increasing risk of having personal and financial data stolen, according to a new report. [ + ]