The Australian Cyber Security Centre has poured cold water on claims made by the media back in August that a "foreign cyber attack" was responsible for the taking offline of the census website.

The PC – desktop, notebook, all-in-one - market has been declining for years cannibalised by the uptake of the smartphone as a primary computing and internet access device. But it is not all bad news for some makers that have seen growth from the hybrid form factor segment.

An intrusion into the Bureau of Meteorology's network last year was not half as "massive" as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation tried to make it out to be.

Most of the case studies of various cyber infringements detailed in the Australian Cyber Security Centre's 2016 report have one thing in common: they relate to threats that are only possible on Microsoft Windows systems.

Australian-listed blockchain-based software solutions company DigitalX has inked an agreement with AT&T Mexican subsidiary, AT&T Comunicaciones Digitales, to facilitate remittances and transfers between AT&T users in the US and Mexico.

NBN Co has signed the last MTM construction agreements. Fulton Hogan and Visionstream are the lucky ones to get more NBN construction business.

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