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Australia yesterday launched a new $18 million cable connectivity and resilience centre to help undersea cable networks in the Indo-Pacific area.

There has been an increase in AI-driven phishing attacks in Australia with research revealing that Australia is within the top 10 countries alongside US, UK, India and Germany targeted by phishing scams.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been granted leave by the UK High Court to appeal against a bid to extradite him to the US to stand trial on espionage charges.

Members of Australia's parliament have been advised to carry burner phones when they visit India, Seven's The Nightly website reports.

Australia remained in the top three countries targeted by bad bots in 2023, representing 8.4% of all bot attacks globally and ranking third behind the US and the Netherlands, according to a report issued by Imperva, a Thales company.

The United States is attempting to further tighten the screws on China by asking some of its allies to reduce exports of chip-related technology and tools to the country.

Consumers are embracing Artificial Intelligence in the smartphone market, with preliminary data suggesting that successfully messaging and marketing ‘halo’ AI features in devices can help influence consumer behaviour, according to the latest Worldpanel ComTech study from marketing data and analytics company Kantar.

Lawyers for the US Government have claimed during a British High Court hearing that WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange put the lives of innocent people at risk by publishing unredacted information.

GUEST RESEARCH: Dragos, the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, today released its sixth annual Dragos OT Cybersecurity Year in Review report, the most comprehensive report on cyber threats facing industrial organisations.

Nobody should be surprised that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party have suddenly come out in support for a lower house resolution calling for freedom for WikiLeaks editor and publisher, Australian Julian Assange.

GUEST RESEARCH: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, released the findings of its annual survey of global data leaders – CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness.

COMPANY NEWS: Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, is proud to announce that it has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

COMPANY NEWS: Intel and United Microelectronics, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that they will collaborate on the development of a 12-nanometer semiconductor process platform to address high-growth markets such as mobile, communication infrastructure and networking.

Australian startup Quasar has launched its world first Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities, a fully digital multibeam satellite ground stations.

COMPANY NEWS: As organisations continue to migrate data to the cloud, where and how data is handled is becoming an important consideration. In response to growing demand, WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) is introducing the option for its Cloud Protection for Salesforce customers in Australia and Singapore to select where their data is processed. The trusted, natively integrated solution prevents attacks via files and URLs uploaded to Salesforce Clouds.

A day without the internet in the world would cost US$43 billion with the US and China almost making up half of the sum together, accumulating US$21 billion, according to data presented by Atlas VPN.

The US has tightened its restrictions on exports of semiconductors and equipment associated with them to China.

Australia is the equal fifth most targeted nation in the APAC region between July 2022 and June 2023, when assessing security considerations like nation-state activity, cybercrime, and other cyber-attacks, according to the fourth annual Microsoft Digital Defense report.

Amazon plans to introduce advertisements to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024 in order to churn more content and create more TV shows and movies.

The Freecycle Network, a group of organisations that allows its members to offer re-usable goods to others free, has been hit by a data breach, according to a statement.