| Hi John, Last week, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella visited Australia and it is fair to say that he received such a lot of puffs in the media that he could well have thought he had landed in a bakery. Local scribes completely forgot that Nadella heads a company that is responsible for all the ransomware attacks the globe has seen.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has slammed the Morrison Government over its tardiness in implementing amendments to the encryption law which was passed last year, saying Finance Minister Senator Mathias Cormann had agreed to do so, and has yet to keep his word nearly a year on.
Analytics software firm Splunk appears to have a problem similar to Y2K, in that unpatched installations of its software will be unable to recognise two-digit dates beginning from 1 January 2020.
Broadband retail service provider Aussie Broadband has achieved average revenue growth of 308% over the last three years to gain a listing as the only telco in this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
A poor NBN migration for a customer has resulted in TPG-owned RSP iiNet being censured by Australia’s communications regulator ACMA and forced to take remedial action under threat of a potential $10 million fine.
Attackers are preying on users' assumption that legitimate app stores protect them from security issues, a security firm claims. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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