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China’s Tencent cracks down on corruption and fires more than 100 employees
News More than ten employees have been arrested, with one reportedly sentenced to three years in prison
AWS launches Australia's first local zone in Perth
News The company is aiming to help customers who need infrastructure closer to their data sources or end-users
Australian gov renews IBM contract for quantum computing, AI
News The new five-year deal is worth $725 million and succeeds the digital transformation agency's previous contract which exceeded $2 billion in spending
Apple to shift MacBook production to Vietnam in further step away from China
News The plan has been reportedly been worked on for two years, with the tech giant already having a test production site in the country
Cyber attack on Australia’s TPG Telecom affects 15,000 customers
News It is the third cyber attack on a major Australian telco since October
Telstra blames IT blunder for leak of 130,000 customer records
News Australia’s biggest telco said that the error was due to a mismanagement of databases and not a cyber attack
Embattled Medibank faces 48-hour outage as cyber security upgrade begins
News The Australian company has called in Microsoft experts as it deals with the fallout of a data breach that led to 9.7 million exposed customer records
Australia aims to be most cyber-secure country by 2030
News The country is assembling an offensive cyber team which will hunt down people seeking to hack Australia’s systems
