A spokesman from the Australian arm of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has expressed surprise about a report on Wednesday saying the Australian Government rejected an offer from the company to set up a cyber security testing centre, pointing out that this was something that it had first offered to the Gillard Government back in 2012.

Australia's Academic and Research Network and global networking vendor Cisco have conducted a successful test of transmitting data at 600Gbps on the AARNet production network, using the Cisco Network Convergence System 1004.

Recent research sponsored by Venafi has uncovered thriving marketplaces for TLS certificates sold individually and packaged with a wide range of crimeware.

The Australian Greens have taken aim at the government's encryption law again, calling for its repeal and claiming that it will have "significant, unintended consequences" as Australian-based encrypted messaging services are dumped in favour of other means of communication.

The demand for freelance IT project managers has skyrocketed in 2018, a freelance marketplace and management platform claims, to the extent that people with the right talent are earning up to $1200 a day.

Cisco and Curtin University have extended their relationship, with the announcement of the Centre for Intent-Based Networking.

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