The deal is a “multi-year contract for mission critical technology and services to transform emergency management in the state”.



Changes to the Consumer Data Right (CDR) rules will allow more businesses to share their banking data with accredited recipients.

Thirty-five thousand Australian premises are yet to be connected to the national broadband network, but Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has declared that the network is "built and fully operational".

A freight data sharing trial involving big-name companies has found limited access to real-time data is adding to delivery delays.

The NSW Department of Health, a user of the Orion network management software that was compromised in a supply chain attack, says it was alerted on 14 December to the fact that an attack had taken place.

Guest Opinion: The ransomware business is booming. In fact, a recent study by Sophos showed that the average global cost of addressing the impact of a ransomware attack, including business downtime, lost orders, operational costs, and more, was US$730,000. This average cost rose to US$1.4 million, almost twice as much, when organisations paid the ransom.

An attempt by long-time Red Hat employee Karsten Wade to mollify those who are upset over the killing of CentOS appears to have only made people angrier, judging by the responses to his post.

Promising its DX Class elevators “catapult the ANZ property industry into the digital revolution”, these are the first elevators in Australia and New Zealand to feature built-in connectivity as standard.

Australian-listed online platform operator Aumake has completed a $7 million capital raising, with the funds to be used to accelerate development of its social e-commerce marketplace, including extensive technology buildout to incorporate “popular” marketing features including short form video and group buying capability.

And of course, there's plenty more today, so for all the news, please visit www.itwire.com.

That's our final afternoon newsletter for 2020. If you're taking a break too, make the best of it in these still strange circumstances. If you have to work, thanks for keeping things running for the rest of us.

We'll be back on 11 January 2021.

Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Afternoon Newsletter Editor, iTWire

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