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Apple lovers and users — I mean the computer company, not the fruit — are prone to occasional emotional outbursts about the hardware and software that emerge from the compnay's portals in Cupertino. It never fails to amuse me when grown adults get their knickers in a knot over any digital device. One would think that there are far more important things in life over which one should get agitated.

What has the Australian Government achieved by placing sanctions on Russian attacker Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly being the main person behind the intrusion into health insurer Medibank?

The constant talk by the federal Opposition about the need to embrace nuclear power as an option for satisfying the country's energy needs appears to be just another diversionary tactic, which is unlikely to be followed up were the Coalition to gain power sometime in the future.

Australian telco TPG Telecom is in talks with the Vocus Group to sell its non-mobile fibre assets for $6.3 billion, a notice sent to the ASX by the company on Tuesday says.

Windows ransomware group Cl0p has released some of the data it stole from consultancy firm PwC on the clear web. The attackers have claimed to be in possession of 121GB of data plus archives.

Singtel Optus says it has no update on a report into the data breach it suffered last year, which it commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to do.

Less than three hours after the Medibank Group told iTWire it had not been affected by the ongoing ransomware attacks by the Cl0p group, the company told another media outlet that it had indeed been affected.

It is more than somewhat ironical that HWL Ebsworth, the Australian law firm that is reeling after a ransomware attack that led to massive data theft, has a slogan on its website saying, "We're not your typical law firm".

Multi-cloud services provider VMware has excised a document from the site of its fully-owned security provider Carbon Black which details services provided to Medibank Group, the medical insurer that has been hit by attackers and had its data purloined.

One reason why a company like Singtel Optus can leak customer data in a breach that is, by all accounts, its own fault and then avoid being held to account is because of the media's fawning coverage.

With Australia in a fairly messy situation as far as network security is concerned, it is somewhat curious to note that the Australia Strategic Policy Institute is trying to lobby for the complete adoption of digital identity.

With the elections in Victoria just 44 days away, the media in the state are keen to step up to the plate and maximise their earnings. Ads roll in at election time, given that the parties in the fray have plenty of money to throw around.

Whenever there is a network attack in Australia — what some commentators call "cyber attacks" carried out by "hackers" — dozens of well-known and not-so-well-known commercial operatives literally fall over themselves in a bid to try and gain some advantage from the disaster.

The Australian Financial Review, which claims to be one of the country's top newspapers, does not appear to know the difference between data from a poll and a focus group, judging by a report written by its political editor, Phil Coorey, on Thursday.

Queensland's CS Energy has denied that there was any indication a network attack on the company in November was by a state-based group.

The Australian Government's move to push Telstra to buy Digicel appears to contradict the policy it has adopted in order to ban Huawei from having a role in the country's 5G networks.

Claims by Nine Entertainment newspapers that the AFP is involved in investigating a network attack on the company's Sydney offices appear to be overblown.

Australian media company Nine Entertainment claims Russia or North Korea may be behind a network attack on the company which led to major issues on Sunday, preventing its TV network from presenting a full line-up of programs.

Nine Entertainment, a major media company in Australia which owns free-to air TV stations and newspapers, says it was hit by a network attack that has interfered with its operations on Sunday.

The defence industry lobby group, Australian Strategic Policy Institute — which styles itself as an independent, non-partisan think-tank — issued a report critical of Canberra Data Centres' domination of the local government market for a lobby group that was paid by three of CDC's competitors, a report in the Australian Financial Review says.