A government submission that sought to explain the impact of the Optus outage has revealed two out of three federal communications department staff with Optus mobiles could not dial the Triple Zero on the morning of the Optus outage.



Australian technology solutions provider Elsight’s connection confidence Halo technology powered Sphere Drones’ Curo HubX (HubX) drone platform to keep drones in the air during the 8 November Optus outage.

US-based cloud cybersecurity company Cloudflare has appointed 25-year industry veteran Steve Bray as Head of Australia & New Zealand.

A new study zooming in on how smartphones influence our photography habits found Australians aged 20 to 40 years old take more selfies than teenagers and older Australians, according to research from RMIT University and the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute.

Cybersecurity company SonicWall has acquired Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Solutions Granted.

OT and critical infrastructure security specialist Nozomi Networks has predicted that Australia and New Zealand critical infrastructure owners/operators will see a major uplift in cybersecurity – particularly in their operational technology (OT) and IoT environments – next year.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire