Australian blockchain payment company BitPOS has launched its own bitcoin ATM in Sydney powered by its own software platform and the BitPOS ID system.

The Labor Party's communications spokesperson Michelle Rowland has taken aim at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the national broadband network rollout, pointing out that criticism of the network is now coming from his own side of politics.

IBM is to acquire the Australian business of innovation consultancy Vivant Digital as part of a move to boost its own digital agency IBM iX.

Global ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data and Deakin University are partnering in an initiative designed to further build Australia’s cyber security capabilities and boost the stocks of security professionals to meet future demands.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs may have put itself squarely in the crosshairs of the lobby promoting the theory that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016, by producing a paper that underscores the difficulty of attribution where cyber exploits are concerned.

Perth-based blockchain solutions firm DigitalX has been appointed as an adviser for the initial coin offering by blockchain energy trading company Power Ledger.

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