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Internet Australia chief Laurie Patton says more than 600 employees of NBN Co connected with him over his campaign for “better broadband" for the national broadband network – and claims many agree with the objectives of his campaign.

An employee of the Australian Taxation Office has published information obtained from the Israeli firm Cellebrite online, detailing ways of breaking into mobile phones.

Dropbox has appointed Tony Ward as its ANZ country manager.

LinkedIn has appointed Matt Tindale as country manager Australia and New Zealand. The seven-year company employee will have a dual role, continuing in his current position as head of Enterprise for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions in the Asia Pacific region while heading the Australia-New Zealand business.

Leonardo Da Vinci is an experienced, passionate, detail-oriented, focused, self-starter with excellent, specialist drawing skills.

The joke around Redmond is that Kevin Scott, LinkedIn’s senior vice-president of Infrastructure, saw Microsoft’s chief technology officer position advertised on LinkedIn and decided to drink the Kool-Aid.

As if malware-ridden apps and drive-by infections from websites are not enough, now you can get malware from clicking on an image on social media sites.

LinkedIn has launched a suite of new products that include an online learning platform — LinkedIn Learning — that the professional network says will enable individuals and organisations to achieve their objectives and aspirations, and help overcome challenges caused by the “ever-shrinking shelf-life of skills”.

Bots have been used to steal data from the business networking site LinkedIn since December 2015, the company claims in a case filed in the US District Court, Northern District of California.

LinkedIn has doubled its members in the Asia Pacific region over the past two years to 100 million, including eight million in Australia now signed up to the world’s largest professional network.

Millions of jobs could be at risk over the next 10 years if Australia fails to create a “workforce for the future”, according to a newly released discussion paper suggesting that few jobs will be protected from the encroachment of automation in the workforce. However, start-ups and tech companies are expected to generate forward-looking jobs based on emerging technologies.

I saw the evocative Time Magazine cover from March 2011 (it has been widely used with credits) and it got me thinking. We have long known that Google collects information on its search and Android users. It is a longstanding joke that Android is a thinly disguised advertising delivery mechanism – why else would Google give it away? Hope you enjoy this weekend, tin-foil hat read.

Chat is the next big digital disruption that may reduce traditional telcos' revenue even more – many non-telco companies are jostling to become your sole, universal communications connection.

Some people follow the money; some [happier] ones follow the passion. Regardless, some companies develop a reputation for being either the best, hippest, coolest or most exciting places to work.

There has been lots of commentary about LinkedIn being acquired by Microsoft. Some of it is bizarre and suggests Microsoft will spy on the professionals that use it, while others say that the acquisition will allow LinkedIn to be even more pervasive via Microsoft products. Here is a good weekend read!

Australia’s IT industry is one of the worst business sectors when it comes to employing women, particularly at executive management level, with just 14% of women in the top positions.

Microsoft is paying US$196 per share to acquire "professional" social networking site, LinkedIn, with the transaction expected to close by the end of this year.

On a scale of one to 10, the 2012 LinkedIn breach of 6.5 million user credentials rated, say, a five. But what if the real number of affected users was 167,370,910, including the email and banking details of more than 117 million users? That is a 10 out of 10!

The term social engineering has come to mean an attack vector – methodology - that relies heavily on using plausible everyday situations to trick people into breaking normal security procedures to install malware or reveal passwords and logins.

A new report from LinkedIn says Aussie salespeople spending an average of 1.5 hours per day on social media, and who use a suite of digital tools, have more success than salespeople who don’t.