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Giant Indian telecoms provider Bharti Airtel has signed an agreement with SpaceX to bring Starlink’s high-speed internet services to its customers in India.

There’s been good progress restoring services in south east Queensland and northern New South Wales today, in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, according to Telstra.

COMPANY NEWS: With 2024 behind us, we saw another challenging year in the world of cybersecurity – highlighted by new and evolving threats like Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven phishing and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks overall.

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Executive Summary

• Team82 has researched devices manufactured by Ruijie Networks and discovered 10 vulnerabilities in its Reyee cloud management platform
• These vulnerabilities affect both the Reyee platform, as well as Reyee OS network devices
• The vulnerabilities, if exploited, could allow a malicious attacker to execute code on any cloud-enabled device, giving them the ability to control tens of thousands of devices
• In addition, Team82 has devised an attack called Open Sesame, in which an attacker can pinpoint exploit a device in close physical proximity through the cloud, executing arbitrary code on it and gaining access to its internal network

Cloudflare is on a mission to build a better Internet. And part of how it achieves this is through a wall of lava lamps. Yes, truly. This wall helps generate random numbers for cryptographic keys. It's the Wall of Entropy, and I ventured to CloudFlare HQ to take a look for myself.

Connectivity cloud company Cloudfare unveiled Speed Brain, a new product that works with web browsers to speed up webpages by 45% for free.

The au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, today launches the inaugural Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy Australia (APIGA Australia), an intensive two day event to be held in Melbourne over 20-21 November 2024.

Australia remained in the top three countries targeted by bad bots in 2023, representing 8.4% of all bot attacks globally and ranking third behind the US and the Netherlands, according to a report issued by Imperva, a Thales company.

Optus has released its Optus Ultra WiFi 5G modem and it's a real powerhouse. If you want huge speeds, modern security, and wide-reaching Wi-Fi in a simple plug-and-play setup then Optus has the device for you.

Broadband speed performance in the peak-demand period of 7-11pm (busy hours) has improved significantly for users of NBN ‘Home Ultrafast’ 1000 Mbps services, following the removal of capacity-based charging under NBN Co’s new wholesale pricing structure, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

NEC has developed a marketing strategy planning & effectiveness simulation technology that utilises generative AI to identify latent needs of customers and generate optimal measures.

Operational technology (OT) and IoT security company Nozomi Networks has appointed Kevin Isaac as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

GUEST OPINION by Anthony Stitt, Nozomi: Cyber and threat intel company Nozomi Networks says sanctions imposed on a Russian individual responsible for the Medibank hack represent a “welcome focus” away from victim blaming in the event of a cyber attack.

No matter the size of your business, if you’re using the internet for your day-to-day operations, you’re always at risk of losses — unless you have a failover internet in place. A failover internet, also called as backup internet, is a secondary internet connection that kicks in once your main connection fails. Unfortunately, even though many businesses already have a backup internet in place, not all failover solutions can be effective. You can encounter a rubbish secondary provider or an unreliable failover setup that may not live up to expectations.

Australian domain administrator auDA wants to educate law enforcers on how the internet works to improve their literacy and train them so they can be prepared to respond to cybercrime.

Cloud cybersecurity company Cloudflare has appointed 25-year industry veteran Steve Bray as Head of Australia & New Zealand.

An estimated 95% of the planet’s population has access to broadband internet via cable or mobile network but there are some places where staying connected can be difficult. To address this, a scientific article, published as open access, proposes the use of nanosatellites to provide stable coverage in areas that are hard to reach using long-range communications.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, announced it signed an agreement with a leading European telecom and managed security service provider.

A day without the internet in the world would cost US$43 billion with the US and China almost making up half of the sum together, accumulating US$21 billion, according to data presented by Atlas VPN.

Over half (54%) of the global population—an estimated 4.3 billion people—now owns a smartphone, according to GSMA’s annual State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2023 (Somic).