While IT security is now very much a focus for company boards, operational technology (OT) security in Australia is way behind, and it will take years to catch up, says Robert M Lee, cofounder and CEO of Dragos, a company specialising in the protection of operational technology and industrial control systems.
Alex Papli, former data and AI lead at Microsoft Australia and now founder of startup AI consultancy Hypergen, says workflow automation will be the “killer app’ for business uses of AI.
AI chip maker and cloud inference service provider, Groq, has expanded its global AI infrastructure footprint to the Asia-Pacific region with an installation intoEquinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney.
There has been a series of reports in the past few days suggesting that Chinese electric vehicles could be configured for monitoring and manipulation by the Chinese government.
There has been much discussion about the need to fortify critical infrastructure, like the electricity grid, from cyber attack by a hostile nation, but a new report suggests that the grid could be wide open to attack from highly insecure domestic solar power systems.
Extreme Networks is touting the benefits of Wi-Fi 7, the latest iteration of the technology and only the second to make use of spectrum in the 6GHz band, but the ACMA has not made the full band available, despite years of lobbying by bodies representing the Wi-Fi industry.
If you really want to spend up big on the latest iPhone the iPhone 17 Pro Max with 1TB of memory will set you back $3799, but that’s peanuts compared to the almost $43,000 ($US27,900 to be precise) that Caviar International’s custom version of the iPhone Air, the iPhone Air Zenith, will set you back.
Researchers at the University of Otago say they have developed algorithms that can enable smartwatches to track their position with centimetre level accuracy.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says it notified organisations operating critical infrastructure of potential malicious cyber activity impacting their networks over 190 times in FY25, a 111 percent increase on the previous year.
Some unfortunate email users, including me, are being deluged with thousands of spam emails that appear to come from Google Maps.
GUEST OPINION: The Digital Industry Group(Digi) has launched a public consultation to inform a review of theAustralian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation (ACPDM), which one report says as completely failed to mitigate misinformation and disinformation in Australia
GUEST OPINION: The contentious, and esoteric, issue of spectrum licencing for mobile networks attained national prominence this week when Telstra CEO Vicki Brady spoke on the topic at the National Press Club. Now claims by Starlink CEO, Elon Musk have added a new dimension to the issue: he claims his Starlink service could provide services direct to cellphones.
GUEST RESEARCH: Researchers at South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology claim to have developed technology that enables wearable devices and IoT sensors to be powered solely by body heat.
Brisbane based cybersecurity company, vCISO.One, has launched a service focused on securing interconnected IoT and OT systems and claims to be “sounding the alarm on a blind spot in the nation’s digital defences.”
Canberra-based startup Pivotal Analytics has applied data analytics techniques to the Commonwealth Gazette to help recruiters find public servants with the skills needed to fill vacancies in the private sector.
There's been a most unseemly stoush between Telstra and Vodafone in recent days over who has the fastest LTE (aka 4G) network. Pity, then, that Telstra and its MVNO partners are not upfront about the third rate 3G offering Telstra makes available to MVNOs.
Vodafone Australia has launched a new international roaming service - initially available only in the US, UK and New Zealand - under which travellers pay $5 per day in addition to charges they would incur using the same services in Australia.
The Federal Opposition has been demanding for years that a cost-benefit study to be undertaken for the National Broadband Network. So if it wins power at the upcoming election we can rightfully expect it to initiate such a study post-haste. In which case it might find a new report from the OECD useful.
IThere’s a strange contradiction in the ‘key messages’ coming out of the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency’s just released ICT Workforce Study. It says that the supply of ICT skills has not kept pace with demand, and it also says that ICT graduates have trouble finding jobs in ICT.
Telstra has announced plans for a significant expansion of its LTE network in response to what it says is "unprecedented demand from customers for superfast mobile services."
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