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Electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure says it has identified a cyber-security incident affecting the personal and health information of individuals.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil appears to have taken a leaf out of the book of ransomware outfits when advertising a new initiative by the government against this genre of malware.

Australian-listed Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) Head of Private Cloud, Jonathan Staff, has called on Australian enterprises and technology providers to do more to lay down the right foundations on which to build AI, warning that cutting corners will come with major risks down the line.

GUEST OPINION: The world has been shaken by geopolitical tensions, disruptions in global markets, and the rapid proliferation of emerging technologies, making security risks a paramount concern for governments worldwide.

Telco Singtel Optus will not release a report into the data breach it suffered last year, which it commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to carry out, the company has confirmed.

As Australia heads for an IT workforce exceeding 1.2 million by 2030, a range of measures are needed to boost the development and retention of skilled workers, according to Australia’s peak body and advocacy group for the ICT industry, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

The findings of an investigation by professional services firm Deloitte into the Optus data breach, which came to light in September last year, will be known by late May.

A 100-person strong task force, formed jointly by the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Signals Directorate, will be given the job of hunting down those who commit crimes online.

Telco Singtel Optus has agreed to reimburse the costs of a new driving licence for NSW residents who were hit by the telco's catastrophic data breach.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

Telco Singtel Optus has indicated that it will pay only the administrative costs incurred by VicRoads in issuing new licences — and not the costs of the licences themselves — to the hundreds of thousands affected by the disastrous data leak suffered by the company.

ACS, an association that represents the Australian technology sector, has welcomed the budget presented by the Federal Government on Tuesday, describing it as "a step towards boosting the diversity of the IT industry and the broader economy with its support for families in, or looking to enter, the workforce".

More than a month after it announced a major data breach, telco Singtel Optus is yet to pay a single dollar towards the costs of replacing the passports of users whose data was leaked. iTWire understands that close to 100,000 passports have been listed for protection.

Medical insurer Medibank Group says its shares have entered a trading halt after it was contacted by an individual who claims to have stolen 200GB of data from the company during a network attack which it reported last week.

Optus customers, whose passport numbers were exposed in the catastrophic breach suffered by the telco, do not need to get the documents replaced, Optus says in a statement to the Singapore Stock Exchange.

The Morrison Government has been raked over the coals for passing laws that are claimed to be of little use in the area of cyber security, with Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil telling a media conference on Sunday that the laws in place were "absolutely useless to me when the Optus matter came on foot".

The Federal Government has accused telco Singtel Optus of dragging its feet on providing full details of users whose data was compromised in a data breach which the telco reported on 22 September.

Optus has agreed to pay for the replacement of passports of users caught up in the data breach that the telco suffered, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.

One wonders what exactly drove Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin to front a media session last Friday, in a bid to spin her way through a damaging development at the telco.

Both sides of politics are putting pressure on Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin to step down over her handling of the data breach which the company made public last Thursday.