The outages experienced by many companies in the US on Tuesday (Australian time) were apparently due to T-Mobile making changes to its network configuration resulting in a series of cascading failures for its users which affected both voice and data networks, the chief executive and co-founder of web-infrastructure and website-security company, Cloudflare claims.

The peak industry representative body for innovation technology in Australia has underlined the need to look beyond traditional infrastructure investment by the government after the COVID-19 pandemic passes, adding that there should, instead, be more focus on technology infrastructure.

Spending on security and risk management technology and services in Australia and New Zealand is expected to decline this year, bucking the global trend in spending on security which is forecast to grow, according to a new analyst report.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has given other countries even more impetus to call this country a lapdog of the US, completely forgetting that the US was among the countries spreading disinformation with a vengeance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Optus Business has partnered with software company workM8, to offer enterprise customers access to the workM8 platform.

Cloud storage service, Dropbox, today announced a new Dropbox Family plan, new features to its Plus plan, native integration with HelloSign, and an App Centre to help users keep their life organised and work moving.

Australian drinks manufacturer Lion is facing a ransom demand of US$800,000 to decrypt its files from a group that used the REvil ransomware to attack the company's site.

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