The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.



Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson and Batelco, part of the Beyon Group, has deployed Ericsson Customer Acceptance (ECA) platform, an enterprise blockchain-based solution for the automated collection of acceptance records upon fulfilment of agreed project deliverables.

Optus has delivered a network transmission upgrade in the Mid-North Coast to improve network resilience and mobile capacity this summer following the 2019/2020 Australian bushfire season.

Australian space research centre SmartSat CRC has appointed current board member Dr Michele Allan AO as its new Chair, following the sudden passing of inaugural Chair Dr Peter Woodgate in December.

A European converged network provider claiming to have 30 million mobile connections has chosen SS8 Networks’ LocationWise platform to ensure all emergency callers can be located on its 5G network.

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Stan Beer, newsletter editor, iTWire