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Access to the network of document storage and records lifecycle solutions provider ZircoDATA was sold on the Exploit forum in January about a fortnight before the company's data was encrypted by the Black Basta ransomware group.

Former NSW premier Bob Carr has taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the delay in the US freeing WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, questioning why, if a request has been refused, the PM has not asked the US a second time.

The Australian Federal Police was unaware of a huge leak of Colombian government documents, which contained information about their operations to prevent international drug cartels from operating Down Under, until they informed about it by newspapers owned by Nine Entertainment.

With the elections in Victoria just 44 days away, the media in the state are keen to step up to the plate and maximise their earnings. Ads roll in at election time, given that the parties in the fray have plenty of money to throw around.

Thirteen years ago, as Indian students were being beaten up left, right and centre in Melbourne, India was anything but flavour of the month Down Under.

The reaction of the Australian media to an address by the Chinese envoy at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday is quite baffling, given that most of what he spoke about has been known for the last 50 years.

We all know what water is – we drink it several times a day, use it to shower and also for other more unmentionable tasks. It is something without which we cannot live.

GUEST OPINION: Last year an Australian research team published the results of their study of long-term trends on the internet, with the headline finding that online attention is being concentrated on fewer and fewer large domains. Now, this work has been extended to identify the top 15 Australian internet domains that have significant global status. There are some promising signs for new media and others.

The ABC appears unlikely to publicise any decision it makes about the future of news presenter Fauziah Ibrahim — who has disappeared from public view after she was outed for hosting public Twitter lists on her personal account of those she categorised as Labor Trolls and Lobotomised Shitheads — before the federal election is over.

The Australian Financial Review, which claims to be one of the country's top newspapers, does not appear to know the difference between data from a poll and a focus group, judging by a report written by its political editor, Phil Coorey, on Thursday.

The Australian National Press Club has shown that it is no longer part of the Fourth Estate, by imposing a blanket of censorship on the Russian Ambassador to Australia, Alexey Pavlovsky.

Nine Entertainment is maintaining a no-official-comment policy on the breach of its Sydney network that came to light on 28 March, but the company appears to have no objection to its staff making the wildest of claims about the incident.

Claims by Nine Entertainment newspapers that the AFP is involved in investigating a network attack on the company's Sydney offices appear to be overblown.

Australian media company Nine Entertainment claims Russia or North Korea may be behind a network attack on the company which led to major issues on Sunday, preventing its TV network from presenting a full line-up of programs.

Channel Nine, the main TV channel owned by Nine Entertainment, has managed to put its breakfast show Today to air on Monday, a day after the show's weekend edition could not be aired on Sunday due to what the company has called a "cyber attack".

Nine Entertainment, a major media company in Australia which owns free-to air TV stations and newspapers, says it was hit by a network attack that has interfered with its operations on Sunday.

Nine Entertainment, owner of a number of well-known newspapers which it bought from the now defunct Fairfax Media, has signed a letter of intent for a five-year deal with Google in return for payment of more than $30 million in cash per annum for use of its news content.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said he expects to see "some significant commercial deals" between Australian news publishers and digital platforms before the government votes on its news media code which is currently before Parliament.

The Federal Government appears to be trying to remove the need for passing the news media code legislation by encouraging, and helping, media companies to join up to Google News Showcase.

The people running the iPad edition of The Age, a prominent newspaper based in Melbourne, have told its staff that they will all be stood down as of Monday, a reliable industry source has told iTWire.