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No reward for banks risking CDR non-compliance

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by,” said Douglas Adams, the iconic author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But for...

Technology supply chains are a risky business

Smaller suppliers of technology goods and services are increasingly finding themselves between a rock and a hard place when contractual agreements turn sour. In any commercial agreement there is...

EY paid $1.5m per month for ATO data work

Ernst & Young will be paid more than $1.5 million per month in the second half of 2021 to provide IT data and analytics services for the tax office,...

Govt opens $50m supply chain grants program

The federal government has opened the first round of its $50 million supply chain resilience program, with funding on offer for businesses involved in medical and agricultural manufacturing projects...

Govt may ban ransomware insurance

The federal government is considering banning insurance reimbursements for companies opting to make ransomware payments, as the Opposition pushes for a mandatory notification scheme around these attacks. A House...

‘Dramatically greater’ investment needed in cyber

Australia needs to make “dramatically greater investments” in cybersecurity education and sovereign capability in order to become a more effective cyber power, according to a report by the International...

Menulog kicks off Sydney employment model trial

Menulog has begun its trial of adopting an employment model in the Sydney CBD, with riders provided with the minimum wage, superannuation and safety equipment. The Australian gig economy...

Australians among world’s most ‘data surveilled’

Australians are the tenth most “data surveilled” citizens in the world, according to analysis of data requests by government authorities to Big Tech companies over the last eight years,...

‘Opaque’ FIRB delays Aussie GovTech deal

Two Australian founded government technology companies have been acquired for an undisclosed amount by US firm Granicus, which plans to roll the software into a unified platform, as American...

Falling short on sovereign capability advice

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has called on government to establish a ‘Made in Australia’ Office to assess domestic capability gaps in the information technology supply chain. But...

Attila Brungs named UNSW vice-chancellor

Professor Attila Brungs has been appointed  as the new UNSW Sydney president and Vice-Chancellor, moving over from the same role at the University of Technology Sydney where he has worked...

It’s the CDRs first birthday. So where’s the party?

On Thursday of this week Australia’s open banking community will celebrate the first birthday of the ground-breaking Consumer Data Right (CDR), which has started in banking sector before moving...

Rachael Falk on building local cyber capability

As chief executive of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra-based Rachael Falk has been one of the most clear-eyed and articulate advocates for building cyber capability across the...

Qld police accessed QR code check-in app data

Police in Queensland accessed data from the state’s QR code check-in contact tracing app to investigate a theft, with legislative changes now being considered to prevent this happening again....