Norwegian aluminium maker Norsk Hydro has been under what it describes as "an extensive cyber attack" that has affected several areas of the company's operations and forced it to go manual. The malware affecting the firm is believed to the LockerGoga ransomware that attacks Windows systems.

US Government officials have warned that the way Britain is going about building its 5G networks could be a threat to its national security if it used equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

The Federal Government has allocated $67.2 million in the forthcoming budget for use in fresh trials around its myGovID identify system, a trial of which began in October last year for iPhone users.

Telstra has turned on its 10,000th mobile network site, throwing the switch on a 5G site in the regional Australian city of Toowoomba.

American software giant Microsoft has finally released its AccountGuard security service in Australia, at least six months after it was made available in 17 other countries.

A Sydney-based technology start-up, has released what it plans to be the first of its virtual reality training products that are geared towards being used in high-risk industries.

Analytics provider SAS and graphics processing hardware vendor NVIDIA are partnering on an initiative designed to help businesses bring artificial intelligence (AI) into their organisations.

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