A new enterprise biometric identification service is to be deployed by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs in July which the Government says will vastly improve Australia’s biometric storage and processing capability of data collected through visa and detention programs.

Telstra has set "new smartphone speed records in Australia, recording 1.03Gbps speeds on Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+" in gigabit-enabled parts of Telstra's mobile network in Sydney.

Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos has quit and will leave the company in August — the second time he has left a high-profile company after a short stint — over alleged Russian troll activity on the social media giant's site.

Telstra and Microsoft have jointly launched cloud voice services in Australia with the delivery of Telstra Calling for Office 365.

Security firm Check Point Research has revived the controversy over the flaws reported in some AMD processors by Israel-based CTS Labs last week, by saying that the way publication was done was "very irresponsible".

Britain's information commissioner Elizabeth Denham will seek a warrant to examine the databases and servers used by data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, the firm that is alleged to have used data of more than 50 million Facebook subscribers for targeting voters in the US presidential election.

BlackBerry and Microsoft have developed software allowing the secure use of Microsoft's mobile apps from the BlackBerry Dynamics secure enterprise mobility software.

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