Huawei Australia chairman John Lord says that Australia cannot turn its back on Asia’s fast growing technological innovation, but warned that potential technology partners in Asia want regulatory certainty from Australia if they are to invest in the country.

In response to the recent Simjacker reporting iTWire approached the big three Australian-based telcos for their response to the issue.The good news for Australian mobile users is all telcos have confirmed that Simjacker cannot hurt their customers

The infamous ransomware WannaCry, which burst on to the world stage in May 2017, is still very much alive and infecting Windows PCs, but a zipped portion appears to have gotten corrupted, preventing its encryption and ransom note creation components from working.

The American news agency Bloomberg has promoted one of the two journalists who wrote a story last year claiming that Chinese spies had corrupted the tech supply chain and installed small chips on motherboards which were supplied to the American company, Supermicro Computer.

IT workers need to develop cloud-related skills – on their own time if necessary – if they are to remain relevant to employers, according to an industry analyst.

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