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Swedish telco Telia, equipment vendor Nokia and the Finnish Defence Forces have conducted what they claim is the world’s first seamless 5G standalone slice handover between multiple countries in a live network.

Lockheed Martin, Nokia, and Verizon have collaborated to integrate Nokia’s military-grade 5G technology into Lockheed Martin's 5G.MIL Hybrid Base Station (HBS) hardware.

The competition watchdog the ACCC has started civil cartel proceedings in the Federal Court against two companies - Spotless Facility Services Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Downer EDI Limited - ASX: DOW) and Ventia Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Ventia Services Group Limited ASX: VNT) - and four senior executives, for alleged price fixing relating to estate maintenance and operation services for the Department of Defence (Defence).

IBM Australia and New Zealand has expanded its senior leadership team with the appointment of Kate Tollenaar to the role of Director Government & Enterprise, ANZ.

PRODUCT LAUNCH: With Capacity Provided by Allianz Australia, the Company Brings a New, Comprehensive Digital Risk Management Solution to the Market to Help Businesses Improve Cyber Defences

GUEST OPINION: Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, has welcomed the Australian Government’s investment in new technology, skills, and cybersecurity in its Federal Budget. Leading executives from Kyndryl ANZ have also called for urgent modernisation of ICT systems for Defence and deeper development of the MyGov app as a way for Government to communicate directly with individual citizens and radically reduce scamming.

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.

Global networking giant Cisco has tied up with the University of Canberra to address the shortage of cyber security skills, with the focus to be on defence and critical infrastructure.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With virtual reality's future successfully rebooted due in part to the efforts of Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR in 2012, designed the headset, led VR input and sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for US $2 billion, Luckey set his sights in 2017 to a much more pressing reality - delivering next-generation, cutting edge hardware, software, AI, VR, AR and more to turn US and allied warfighters into superheroes with next-level defence tech, and now in Australia, too.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With virtual reality's future successfully rebooted due in part to the efforts of Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR in 2012, designed the headset, led VR input and sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for US $2 billion, Luckey set his sights in 2017 to a much more pressing reality - delivering next-generation, cutting edge hardware, software, AI, VR, AR and more to turn US and allied warfighters into superheroes with next-level defence tech, and now in Australia, too.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found that 17 countries are responsible for most of the disinformation spread through Twitter, none of which are from the Five Eyes grouping. Europe is largely absent too. Who knew?

Secure collaboration software solutions provider archTIS has appointed Nick Main as its new chief security officer (CSO).

Exactly why Australian politicians and some rent-a-quote merchants are up in arms over the government's loss of control over a WeChat account set up for Prime Minister Scott Morrison is hard to fathom.

A $25 million facility has been launched to drive innovation and foster industrial output in an area dubbed the heart of Sydney’s tech central.

ASX-listed Canberra-based cyber security firm archTIS has partnered with IT solutions integrator Cirrus Networks in a deal which will see Cirrus resell archTIS’ attribute-based access control (ABAC) information security solutions to customers nationwide.

Australian-listed cybersecurity and smart solutions for drones, robotics and autonomous platforms provider Mobilicom has secured a design win and initial $400,000 purchase order from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for two smart solution components for use in a new tactical drone system.

Australian lithium-ion battery manufacturer Energy Renaissance has announced that it will develop a defence-grade cybersecure Battery Management System (BMS) for its superStorage family of batteries that are to be manufactured in Tomago, NSW.

A Republican senator from Ohio has criticised the US Government over taking more than three months to say who was accountable for not stopping the SolarWinds supply chain attack that first came to light in December 2020.

Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has signed a three-year contract with the Australian Department of Defence to uplift and modernise Defence’s existing and planned future ICT environments.

The Australian Information Industry Association AIIA) says Western Australia has the capacity to move up the rankings in the country’s digital inclusion index and move ahead of third placed NSW in the next 12 months.