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• DTA plans whole-of-government ‘telco marketplace’

  Canberra’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is gearing up for new telecommunications procurement arrangements.

• Westpac to close funds transfer platform LitePay

  Westpac said it would close an international funds transfer platform and appoint an external expert to provide independent oversight in response to allegations raised by financial crime watchdog AUSTRAC.

• Why Cenitex turned to HCI, VMware Cloud on AWS for ‘Program Fortify’

  Last year the building housing one of Cenitex’s customers – Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) -- suffered water damage and caught fire, and as a result some 1900 users couldn’t access their PCs and had to work from home or another office.

• Roadshow, Netflix seek to block open source Popcorn Time app

  Village Roadshow is spearheading a new effort to obtain Federal Court orders directing major Australian ISPs to block their customers from accessing eighty-seven online services accused of facilitating piracy.

• Canada's use of Huawei 5G would hamper its access to US intelligence: U.S. official

  The U.S. national security adviser urged Canada on Saturday not to use Huawei 5G technology, saying that doing so would put in jeopardy intelligence sharing with the United States and expose Canadians to being profiled by the Chinese government.

• ANZ, CBA call for better threat intelligence sharing

  ANZ and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia have used a public consultation on updating the government’s national cyber security strategy to push for better threat intelligence sharing both between major enterprises and the public and private sectors.

• Microsoft goes very small for Windows 10 1909's 'On' switch

  The latest version of Windows relies on an 'enablement package' to turn on features that transform Windows 10 1903 into 1909.

• GraalVM adds Java 11 support

  Latest upgrade of Oracle’s polyglot VM becomes the project”s first long term support release

• A new era of cyber warfare: Russia’s Sandworm shows “we are all Ukraine” on the internet

  In-depth research on Russia's Sandworm hacking group shows broad capabilities and scope to disrupt anything in any part of the world.

• Microsoft granted license to export 'mass market' software to Huawei

  Microsoft on Thursday said it has been granted a license to export software to Huawei.

• Royal Australian Navy gets 'world first' 3D printers

  The Royal Australian Navy will deploy a metal 3D printer in what the government described as a "world-first trial".

• Blackberry refreshes its UEM suite, focuses on zero-trust access

  BlackBerry's latest version of its flagship Enterprise Mobility Suite is aimed at enabling management of all devices and apps across all vendor platforms.

• Extreme targets data centre automation with software, switches

  Extreme has unveiled new automation software and switches to help customers turn-up and manage new data centre​ networking segments.

• Sourcetrail code navigator now free open source

  Sourcetrail indexes source files to create a dependency graph, giving developers a graphical overview of their code

• Emergent Android banking Trojan shows app overlay attacks are still effective

  By taking code from another Android Trojan, Anubis, the Ginp malware has enhanced itself and has begun targeting banks.