The target is an industrial control system in Western Australia and the objective is to infiltrate the network and plant malicious software which could one day be used to steal information or cripple that business. “New attack from Xinpu, China to Australia,”…
A COVID-19 era boost to the adoption of collaboration apps has fed into a boom year for the Australian cloud computing market. And serious money is being made.
Widespread investor enthusiasm for tech hasn’t extended to Altium, with its shares tumbling 10 per cent this week after reporting weaker-than-expected sales.
The top financial regulators have urged banks to continue supporting businesses and households by running down capital buffers as the economy braces for the conclusion of government stimulus in September.
Their trust might be even less after Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned Australians on Friday that the country has been under sustained cyber attack for some months by a state actor – widely believed to be China. Their intent appears to be to probe and reco…
“In the not quite two years since my government made the decision to keep high-risk vendors out of 5G in Australia, [that] has been proved to be the right call,” Mr Turnbull said. Huawei’s chief corporate affairs officer, Jeremy Mitchell, said Mr Turnbull’s c…
Australian shares are looking up as Wall Street gained ground and Steve Schwarzman, chief executive officer of Blackstone Group, said the economy was likely to benefit from a V-shaped recovery.
, a think-tank says. China goes on the cyber offensive during the coronavirus pandemic The two countries should also bring Japan in to work more closely on development in the Pacific, particularly given America’s foreign aid efforts may be focused on Latin Am…
On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds warned of a worrying increase in cyber attacks against Australian interests by a “sophisticated state-based actor” – thought to be China. Mr Turnbull said the recent attacks justifie…
Firms will also need to ramp up their spending on cyber security, including potentially contributing to the cost of the national agencies as part of an updated cyber security strategy. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the strategy will also see Can…
China has denied it was behind the attacks that had “honeypot” early warning systems at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth start pinging on Thursday afternoon. ECU is the headquarters for the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre headed by Australia’s…
Australia’s largest digital bank has been so impressed with its remote working during lockdown that it will tackle tech skills shortages by hiring staff from anywhere.