The computer network at the Federal Parliament has been infiltrated and security agencies are now trying to find out if any data was stolen in the attack and who was responsible.

A bit of a stoush has erupted between Telstra and the main union for telecoms workers. Telstra has labelled criticism of its internal job allocation systems by the CEPU chief Shane Murphy as “grossly misleading.

Communications Alliance chief John Stanton has urged the IT industry to highlight the changes needed in the Federal Government's encryption law that was passed last year, telling a forum in Sydney on Thursday that there was an urgent need "to try to repair this dangerous piece of legislation".

Nearly half (46%) of all e-commerce market revenue in Australia last year was transacted through mobile devices, the tech analyst firm Telsyte says, with what it calls the m-commerce market being worth $15.2 billion in 2018, compared to $12.0 billion in 2017.

Health services providers continue to top the industry sectors reporting breaches under the Notifiable Data Breaches act.

Fraud attacks on emails continue to grow dramatically, with the number of attacks against targeted companies increased 226% between Q3 2018 and Q4 2018, and a whopping 476% when comparing Q4 2017 and Q4 2018, according to a new global security threat report.

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