Older smartphone users rely more heavily on their auto lock feature than younger people and prefer to unlock their phone with PINs, a study has shown. [ + ]

CSIRO's Data61 researchers have figured out a way to essentially 'vaccinate' AI and machine learning algorithms against adversarial attacks. [ + ]

Emerging technology companies could access a share of $2 billion over five years to build and grow their businesses, under measures unveiled by NAB. [ + ]

New Zealand's Ultrafast Broadband fibre network now covers nearly 1.5m premises in 70 towns and cities, and regional areas are leading its adoption. [ + ]

Learning and work need to converge if workers are going to thrive in the digital future, according to a new report. [ + ]

Scammers pretending to be NBN Co are costing consumers more than $110,000 a month on average in 2019, the Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission warns. [ + ]

Research from Snow Software indicates that 49% of APAC employees are accessing software and applications without IT's permission. [ + ]

The Australian Catholic University has revealed that some staff email accounts and university systems were compromised in a phishing attack-based data breach. [ + ]

Dropbox has opened a new local sovereign hosting environment for Australian and New Zealand business customers within the AWS Sydney Region. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Australian spending on customer relationship management software increased 19.4% to $2.3bn during 2018, Gartner estimates. [ + ]

The Queensland Government has allocated funding for a project to open access to government-owned fibre assets to telecommunications service providers. [ + ]

ABI Research has predicted that shipments of Wi-Fi enabled devices will grow to reach nearly 4bn annually by 2024. [ + ]

An audit of 10 NSW universities identified a number of IT internal control deficiencies that are leaving the institutions at risk of cyber attack. [ + ]

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. [ + ]