Telstra's success or failure with its new move to split up into three units will depend on how much freedom the parent group gives them to operate, based on what makes financial and economic sense, the well-known independent telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says.

South Australia's announcement that it would be imposing a tax on users of electric cars, plus the NSW statement that it too would look at such a tax, will be further disincentives to take-up of this class of vehicles by the Australian public, the insurance agency Budget Direct claims.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has issued a warning to the health sector, saying it has seen increased targeting by attackers using the SDBBot remote access trojan.

A cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting entities around the globe has been discovered by the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team, which says it appears to operated by attackers for hire.

Canberra-based ASX-listed cyber security firm archTIS has received commitments for $8.4 million to fund its acquisition of US information protection business Nucleus Cyber.

Data and AI company Databricks has launched SQL Analytics, which allows workloads that would normally need a data warehouse to run on a data lake.