Monash University has disabled its systems that use human resources outfit PageUp People to manage recruitment and other human resource activities after last week's breach announcement and has not reinstated it.

Australia and the Solomon Islands will sign a deal on Wednesday for the first stage of construction of an undersea cable system linking the Solomons and Papua New Guinea to Sydney. It will cost Australian taxpayers in excess of $100 million after Huawei was axed from the deal.

Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation is set to start trading on Wednesday, after it agreed to an 8 June deal with the US to pay a fine of US$1 billion and overhaul its management in order to lift a ban on doing business with American suppliers.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab has taken a Dutch newspaper to court over what it says is a false claim about someone having hacked into the company's offices in the Netherlands.

Commercial rollouts of 5G and larger than previously forecasted deployments of cellular IoT, including by Telstra, are ramping up globally, according to the latest mobility report from Ericsson.

Created to "end the war on data", Beam says it uses blockchain to facilitate the exchange of data for value between retail customers and stakeholders, and has just announced its ICO.

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