1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (563+ words) Showing that physical access to a device can spell "game over" for its security, a Canadian penetration tester has successfully demonstrated a string of attacks that allow a determined threat actor to get through data protection measures in PCs. At…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (873+ words) NBN Co says that fibre is now the dominant broadband connection technology used in its network, as its overbuild program starts to enter high gear. The company's chief executive Ellie Sweeney said the number of premises on fibre reached 2.99 million…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (537+ words) Optus operates four of the databases, known as Home Location Registers (HLR), across its network for load balancing and resiliency purposes. The remaining three HLRs were not affected by the update snafu, explaining the unpredictable way that the outage manifested....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (262+ words) Microsoft said it has begun rolling out new Secure Boot security certificates, ahead of a late June 2026 expiration deadline that affects virtually every Windows device globally. The certificates, which have protected the Windows boot process since 2011, must be replaced before…...

2+ week, 5+ min ago  (526+ words) The federal government has revealed that it is working on establishing a technical trial that could lead to the establishment of Australia's first mass adoption text-to-triple zero relay service. Department of Communications officials today confirmed that the government was close…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (318+ words) Optus is still trying to determine the cause of a mobile service outage that is understood to have impacted over 100,000 customers. An Optus spokesperson told iTnews that the carrier was aware of an issue affecting "some" of its customers. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (90+ words) Hires lead executive. " Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said "the company " plans "to build "graphics " processing units (GPUs), the category of chip popularised by "Nvidia Speaking at an artificial intelligence conference "in San Francisco hosted by Cisco Systems, Tan said the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (236+ words) Apple plans to revamp Siri later "this "year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported. The chatbot, codenamed "Campos, will be embedded deeply into "the "iPhone, iPad and Mac operating "systems and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (741+ words) SUBCO will build a new undersea fibre cable linking Australia directly to the US'within two years to meet an expected surge in demand for capacity carrying AI-related data workloads. The undersea cable builder said that the new 16-pair submarine fibre…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (358+ words) A criminal enterprise used a single base Windows Server 2022 cloud image to create a large amount of virtual dedicated servers (VDS), which were then rented out cheaply to threat actors. Active since 2019, RedVDS operated publicly, offering servers in the United…...