Both Telstra and Optus have announced they will be providing their customers with the new Samsung Galaxy models released overnight, with Telstra claiming to have struck an exclusive deal with the South Korean phone-maker that would ensure its customers get their hands on the 5G device first.

The UK is able to manage any potential security risks posed by using equipment from Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei, the chief of the country's National Cyber Security Centre has told a conference in Brussels, adding that there has been no indication of any suspicious activity by the company.

The Melbourne Heart Group, a medical unit located at Cabrini Hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, has been hit by a Windows ransomware attack that has resulted in about 15,000 patients being locked.

Two veterans of Australia's technology and Internet industries have set up a company known as Icon Cyber that will attempt to gets its fingers into the growing cyber security market in the country.

A senior security researcher at the Slovakian security outfit ESET has highlighted the dangers from what is dubbed siegeware – software that is used to secure building automation systems and that can, once hacked, result in horrendous outcomes.

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