Cloud and the security thereof is becoming an imperative for government agencies, who are increasingly putting their services online and this is giving rise to a new era of upskilling the government workforce.

Australian secure cloud provider Vault Systems has launched a new training facility in Canberra called Vault Academy where it proposes to upskill 3000 federal government IT workers each year to meet what it claims is the growing demand for secure cloud services by government agencies.

Traditional PSTN landlines in Australia will probably go the way of the dodo by 2037, based on figures from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission which has tracked the decrease in landlines from 2012-13.

British teenager Kane Gamble, 18, has been given a two-year term in youth detention for hacking offences he committed at the age of 15, marking the first time that someone under 18 has been given a custodial sentence for hacking.

Storage vendor Western Digital has released what it claims to be the biggest conventional magnetic recording hard drive in the industry at 14TB.

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