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Australian officials are increasingly worried about the Pacific's vulnerability to cyber attacks, with the government spending $26 million to set up "rapid assistance" teams made up of experts from the private sector and specialists from intelligence agencies like the Australian Signals Directorate.

The proposed changes come after child safety advocates accused the federal government of not doing enough to keep kids safe online.

Submissions to a Senate inquiry outline what happened behind the scenes as Optus rushed to fix its recent outage.

At the start of 2023, experts warned ChatGPT would swamp schools in a wave of cheating. With the academic year wrapping up, we asked students what really happened.

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was highly regarded as a corporate warrior after surviving last year's cyber attack fallout, but her fate at Optus was decided earlier than Monday morning's announcement, writes Peter Ryan.

X Corp, formerly Twitter, will file a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk has said. 

If last year's cyber attack failed to teach Optus a few lessons in handling massive tech failures, perhaps the public scrutiny of the Senate will force the system reboot the telco so desperately seems to need, writes Kate Ainsworth.

Issues between blue and green message bubbles could soon be a thing of the past, as Apple moves to adopt the RCS standard.

Optus is facing growing scrutiny after some triple-0 calls failed during its unprecedented outage.

Optus is no stranger to class actions after last year's cyber attack. But a week after its crippling nationwide outage left 10 million Australians in the dark and businesses unable to trade, is another one on the horizon?

Optus says "changes to routing information" after a "routine software upgrade" was behind last week's nationwide outage, affecting 10.2 million Australians and impacting 400,000 businesses.

Fearing that telecommunications companies have been left to manage their own cyber affairs with limited oversight, the home affairs minister imposes new reporting obligations in an attempt to prevent another Optus-style hack.

First the hack, then the outage. Many customers want out of Optus, while others want compensation. Here's a look at your consumer rights.

As fibre-to-the-premises internet arrives in far-flung pockets of Queensland, some in the regions want to bust the "urban myth" that all bush broadband is bad.

Protests over the Israel-Gaza war have swept the globe — and the virtual worlds of video games are no exception.

Telecommunications experts warn Australia’s major mobile providers are vulnerable to another major outage due to gradual cost-cutting and a critical lack of regulation.

Optus will provide eligible customers, including small businesses, 200GB of free data as compensation for its nationwide outage that lasted for more than 12 hours and impacted more than 10 million Australians.

It's the day after the Optus outage struck more than 10 million customers and impacted health, education, transport and many other services. Read over our blog to see how the day unfolded.

The federal government has announced a review into Wednesday's massive Optus outage, which affected more than 10 million customers across the country, as the minister urges the telco to consider compensating its customers.

CEO of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Rachael Falk speaks to 7.30 about the outage that affected more than 10 million Optus customers.

A year after a cyber attack exposed the personal details of millions of Optus customers, the telco boss is on another apology tour. She seems to have learned nothing, writes business editor Ian Verrender.

Canada, Japan, and the United States are among the countries that expect service providers to implement roaming capabilities to cover major network failures. 

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says "a technical network fault" is to blame for the company's nationwide outage on Wednesday, but can't provide more information on the cause before conducting a deeper analysis.

Services are being restored after millions of Optus customers were left without phone and internet services. Here's what we know about the outage.

Optus says it is working to solve the issue impacting mobile and internet customers, with services down since early this morning across the country.