Optus
Opinion
Telecommunications
Closing the gap: Vodafone’s desperate deal to catch Telstra and Optus
No matter how you interpret the $6.3 billion deal with Vocus, TPG - which owns the number three player in the mobiles market, Vodafone - is shrinking.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Why Murdoch’s News Corp hired a political lobbyist
The media empire has hired SEC Newgate to work the corridors of power in Canberra. So something big must be in the offing.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Indigenous culture
Phone tower plans spark a clash of cultures in exclusive coastal enclave
A parcel of land nestled amid the exclusive Central Coast properties is at the centre of a stoush between ancient cultural practice and 21st century technology.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Cybersecurity
More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm
Dozens of government departments and agencies are scrambling to find out how much data has been breached in an attack by Russian hackers on an Australian law firm.
- by Anthony Galloway
Optus customer growth stunted by cyberattack
The telco’s chief executive says the company has returned to net positive customer growth since December, but momentum remains slower than before the breach.
- by Millie Muroi
‘Did your husband do it?’ $97,000 scam victim shocked at bank question
The ACCC has found the big banks have reimbursed only 2 to 5 per cent of customer scam losses. They only stopped 13 per cent of scam payments.
- by Anna Patty
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American Express
Spy fears over politicians’ cards as American Express faces privacy probe
An investigation by the privacy watchdog follows a complaint about national security risks posed by MPs having Amex accounts, including security committee chair Peter Khalil.
- by Charlotte Grieve
Latitude refuses to pay hackers’ ransom demand
Criminals who stole the data of 14 million consumers from Latitude Financial made a ransom demand to the consumer lender, which it is refusing to pay.
- by Colin Kruger
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Cybersecurity
‘Consider what damage could be caused’: Government launches cyber ‘war games’ for major banks
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says recent attacks on Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial are just the “tip of the iceberg” for damaging cyberattacks.
- by Matthew Knott
Private financial, health information exposed in Meriton data breach
The property giant contacted around 1900 staff and guests to inform them their data may have been accessed in the latest cyber incident involving an Australian company.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Cybersecurity
Why corporate management is not being punished for cybercrime
Could it be that shareholders and consumers are becoming blasé about major data breaches?
- by Elizabeth Knight