In what is the largest global technology investment announcement in Australia’s history, Amazon has announced plans to invest a new total of AU$20 billion from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data centre infrastructure in Australia.



The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has welcomed Amazon Web Services' landmark AUD$20 billion investment in Australian data centre infrastructure, announced this weekend by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and AWS CEO Matt Garman in Seattle.

When you scratch the surface of most privacy incidents, a deeper issue emerges: identity. Privacy failures don’t just happen because data is exposed—they happen because someone had inappropriate access to it.

A new Sailpoint report highlights an urgent need for improved identity security as AI agents gain widespread adoption.

Cloud email security provider MailGuard is warning businesses to be on high alert after intercepting a widespread phishing campaign “masquerading as a OneDrive shared document notification, which ultimately redirects to a fake Adobe login page designed to steal user credentials”.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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