Security companies in the US tend to see a Russian hand in everything these days. The latest firm to come up with a Russian bogeyman is FireEye, which issued a report last week, claiming that a campaign against the hospitality sector was being run by APT28, a group that FireEye claims is sponsored by the Russian Government.
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev will bid goodbye to the organisation by the end of June 2018 in the wake of the allegations of violating money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws levelled by AUSTRAC.
The survey for laying the NEXT undersea cable project has been completed ahead of schedule and a request for proposal is underway, with vendor selection expected to be completed by the end of the year. The cable, linking Australia, NZ and the US, is expected to provide an additional 60 terabits per second of capacity for customers.
Optus has secured a new $13.6 million contract with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to deliver a range of managed services to the department nationally and overseas.
Aussies lost or destroyed their smartphones at a rate of 1,370 per day - or 2.5 million smartphones in the last five years – and, it seems, millennials are the worst offenders.
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