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Four university students, competing as ByteMe, have won the first prize in the Secur'IT Cup, an annual hacking competition jointly organised by security outfit Kaspersky and Hackathons Australia.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre tried to censor the content of a talk to be given by the partner of a Sydney legal firm at the CyberCon conference in Melbourne last week, but the organisers backed down at the last minute and the talk went ahead in its original format. The main objection apparently was to the lawyer's statement that Australia's encryption law was similar to laws in China.

Victorian regional health service Barwon Health is one among numerous entities in the state's health network to be hit by a ransomware attack. Details are expected to be announced later today by the state's Premier, Daniel Andrews.

US-based global enterprise storage company Pure Storage has officially opened its new Melbourne office which the company says makes it strategically placed to tap into local talent and empower Victorian customers to unlock the value of their data.

The Motorola Solutions hackathon will be staged for the third year in Melbourne this month, with public safety organisations including Victoria Police, Victoria State Emergency Service, Ambulance Victoria and Crime Stoppers Tasmania collaborating with developer teams on real world challenges they face in their daily work.

Melbourne University will end up getting fibre-to-the-premises as its NBN technology after the NBN Co and university authorities considered the degree of difficulty in wiring up the buildings.

The Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne has selected four teams of students and alumni for entrepreneurial fellowships in a program aimed at accelerating startups and fostering a culture of entrepreneurship at the institution.

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and the University of Melbourne have opened the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET), claiming it to be one of the largest research efforts on green telecommunications in the world.

So you thought 3D TV was only for watching football? New research from the University of Melbourne has used 3D technology to broadcast virtual reality surgical operations via 3DTV.

NEC and The University of Melbourne have been awarded a $4 million grant from the Australian Research Council for collaborative research on future broadband wireless technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government are to set up a joint research centre to focus on energy efficient technology for the communications industry.

With just three years to go before its ICT shared services initiative is due to be completed, Monash University has spent $2 million on a range of tools from BMC Software to help with the transition.