Industry News
Dropbox opens local hosting environment
Dropbox has opened a new local sovereign hosting environment for Australian and New Zealand business customers within the AWS Sydney Region. [ + ]
Australian CRM market grows 19.4% in 2018
Australian spending on customer relationship management software increased 19.4% to $2.3bn during 2018, Gartner estimates. [ + ]
Queensland allocates $8m for FibreCo project
The Queensland Government has allocated funding for a project to open access to government-owned fibre assets to telecommunications service providers. [ + ]
Exim vulnerability now being exploited
A newly uncovered worm seeks to exploit the recently disclosed vulnerability in Exim, the platform that is used by well over half of the world's email servers. [ + ]
Wi-Fi market shows no sign of slowing after 20 years
ABI Research has predicted that shipments of Wi-Fi enabled devices will grow to reach nearly 4bn annually by 2024. [ + ]
NSW unis facing significant cyber risks
An audit of 10 NSW universities identified a number of IT internal control deficiencies that are leaving the institutions at risk of cyber attack. [ + ]
Postman Digit? Agility Robotics releases new delivery robot
Agility Robotics' humanoid robot, Digit, is stepping out of the lab and into the world, and some day, it might just end up at your door. [ + ]
Modis recognised at international Microsoft awards
Modis has been named Microsoft's 2019 "Australian Partner of the Year" and "Data Analytics Partner of the Year". [ + ]
AGL mounts $3bn takeover bid for Vocus
AGL Energy has been granted exclusive due diligence rights on a potential takeover of Vocus Group after submitting a non-binding $3bn offer. [ + ]
EU mobile traffic routed to China for two hours
Large amounts of mobile traffic bound for European mobile networks was inadvertently routed through China for more than two hours recently. [ + ]
ACSC urges Windows users to patch against BlueKeep
Users of outdated and obsolete versions of Windows have been urged to patch against the critical BlueKeep vulnerability, with “potentially millions of networks” at risk. [ + ]
Cinia, MegaFon enter Arctic telecom cable agreement
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Cinia and MegaFon to prepare the build of a submarine telecommunications cable across the Arctic Sea. [ + ]
Bug found impacting more than half of email servers
Cloud security company Qualys has discovered a new vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent that allows root-level local and remote command execution. [ + ]
Infosys Melbourne 5G Living Lab opens
The Melbourne 5G Living Lab has just been launched by Infosys, designed to help service providers monetise 5G network deployment. [ + ]
Misapplied config change caused Google service outage
Google has attributed an outage impacting access to Google services to a configuration change that was inadvertently applied more broadly than planned. [ + ]